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- <title>
- Oct. 22, 1990: Last Concert
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 22, 1990 The New Jazz Age
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 93
- Last Concert
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- <body>
- <p>By EMILY MITCHELL/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> One November evening in 1943, as a hasty substitute for the
- New York Philharmonic's ailing Bruno Walter, a young and
- unknown assistant conductor stepped onto the podium. When he
- awoke the next morning, Leonard Bernstein found that he was
- famous. Last week, 47 years later, he finally laid aside his
- baton, on his doctor's orders. According to his physician,
- Bernstein, 72, has progressive emphysema and a pleural tumor
- that are causing "increased difficulty in breathing." Further
- public performances as a pianist or conductor, the musician was
- told, would probably be too strenuous.
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- </body>
- </article>
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