Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein - Softcover

Rubin, Susan Goldman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580893457 ISBN 13: 9781580893459

Publisher: Charlesbridge, 2015

Synopsis

Beginning with Lenny’s childhood in Boston and ending with his triumphant conducting debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York Philharmonic when he was just twenty-five, Music Was IT draws readers into the energetic, passionate, challenging, music-filled life of young Leonard Bernstein. Archival photographs, mostly from the Leonard Bernstein Collection at the Library of Congress, illustrate this fascinating biography, which also includes a foreword by Bernstein’s daughter Jamie. Extensive back matter includes biographies of important people in Bernstein’s life, as well as a discography of his music.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Goldman Rubin is the author of more than a dozen books for young readers, including Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter (Abrams) and The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin (Holiday House), both ALA Notable Books. Susan lives in Malibu, California.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

From the start Leonard loved music. When he was about two year old, his parents, Sam and Jennie, stayed with friends who had a summer house at Revere Beach near Boston. The friends had a piano in the living room, and whenever Leonard heard someone playing, he pressed his ear to the closed door. "Moynik!" he shouted, his own word for music.
At home in Mattapan, a suburb of Boston, he would cry "Moynik!" with tears running down his face until his mother put a record on the windup Victrola. Then Lenny, as he was called, would
stop crying and listen happily. The Victrola was Lenny’s faithful companion and, often, his only playmate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Charlesbridge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1580893457
• ISBN 13: 9781580893459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192