Leonard Bernstein — The Closeted Love Life of Music Genius
Bernstein was a gay married to a woman
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6 min readMar 28, 2024
Leonard Bernstein (1919-1990) was a larger-than-life musician in American history. He was a wonderboy of the American classical music scene.
In 1943, at the age of 25, he substituted for an ailing conductor at the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall without a rehearsal. By…