The Leonard Bernstein Letters (2 page)
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5 Leonard Bernstein in Hollywood with his portable typewriter in 1944.
6 Leonard Bernstein and Lukas Foss in 1944.
7 Leonard Bernstein with Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden and Adolph Green working on
On the Town
in 1944.
8 Leonard Bernstein with Aaron Copland at Bernardsville, NJ, in August 1945.
9 Leonard Bernstein studying the vocal score of Stravinsky's
Oedipus Rex
, a work he conducted with the New York City Symphony in November 1946.
10 Two photographs of Leonard Bernstein in his West 10th Street apartment, c. 1946. The signed photograph on the grand piano is inscribed “To my very dear Lenushka with all my faith, hope and love, Serge Koussevitzky”.
11 A series of photographs of Bernstein conducting in Carnegie Hall, c. 1946.
12 Bette Davis in the 1940s.
13 David Diamond c. 1945.
14 James M. Cain, with whom Bernstein corresponded about a proposed setting of Cain's novel
Serenade
in 1947.
15 Serge Koussevitzkywith Leonard Bernstein and Lukas Foss, celebrating Koussevitzky's 74th birthday in 1949.
16 Leonard Bernstein with David Oppenheim.
17 Leonard Bernstein at a kibbutz in Israel1 festival of Shavuot1 22 May 1950.
18 Martha Gellhorn with Ernest Hemingway at the Stork Club, New York, in 1941.
