Monday, March 29, 2010

The Sheridan paragraph from Leonard Bernstein's biography

"On their roundabout way home from Taos the Bernstein brothers visited Gus Rudolph, a Tanglewood student, at his ranch in Sheridan, Wyoming ... 'We plunged into the strenuous Wyoming life, working in effect as hired ranch hands from dawn to dusk and then drinking beer in town at night with the local cowboys.' Bernstein used a snapshot of himself on horseback as his 1949 holiday greetings card." (Page 182, Leonard Bernstein, by Humphrey Burton)
He had with him the uncompleted score of his second symphony, "Age of Anxiety," with which he was tinkering while on the road.
Bernstein, his brother and poet Stephen Spender drove here in Lenny's Buick convertible.

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