BERNSTEIN, Leonard; LEDBETTER, Steven (ed.).

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Sennets & Tuckets: A Bernstein Celebration. First edition, handsomely presented, of this 70th birthday festschrift for the great American conductor, composer, performer, and educator, enthusiastically inscribed to his lifelong friend, the less popularly revered but no less talented composer-performer Lukas Foss on the half-title, "Dear Lukie, I do love you! Lenny, 88". This is an exceptional musical association copy. Bernstein met Foss when they both joined the Curtis Institute of Music in 1939, Bernstein having graduated from Harvard, the German-born Foss a 16 year old recently arrived from Paris. Both subsequently studied at the Berkshire Music Center, later Tanglewood, the summer school associated with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the work of which is a theme running through the present volume. Theirs was a true meeting of musical minds; the almost excessively brilliant and brash Bernstein considered Foss "an authentic genius", Foss self-described as "a terribly arrogant bastard", confessing that Bernstein was like his older brother and "the only friend I never argued with".

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