LENNY FROM THE BLOCK

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: October 8, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Judith Clurman had just returned from driving her son to Cambridge to start his freshman year at Harvard. She was standing in her kitchen when she had her Lenny epiphany. "Why hasn't Harvard University ever honored Leonard Bernstein?"

That was two years ago, which was how long it took Clurman, director of choral activities at the Juilliard School, and Carol J. Oja, a Harvard music professor, to put together "Leonard Bernstein, Boston to Broadway." The three-day festival, which puts the spotlight on Bernstein's local roots, starts Thursday. It comprises symposia, master classes, exhibitions, ...

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