Channeling Lenny

摘要

To hear Leonard Bernstein at his electric best, you had to hear him live. A recent boxed set from the New York Philharmonic gives you the next best thing. When he died in 1990,at 72, Leonard Bernstein left thousands of hours of studio recordings to buttress his formidable legacy. But Bernstein was a creature of the radio. His conducting career was born on the airwaves, so to speak, when, as a precocious 25-year-old, he filled in for the ailing Bruno Walter in a 1943 broadcast of Richard Strauss' Don Quixote.