Remembering Lenny: Bernstein Revisited
By Justin Davidson, eMusic Contributor
When Leonard Bernstein turned 70, his old friend and co-conspirator Stephen Sondheim reworked the lyrics of Kurt Weill's song "The Saga of Jenny," the girl who "would make up her mind": There once was a boy named Lenny Whose talents were varied and many, So many that he was inclined Never to make up his mind. In fact, he was so gifted He seldom felt uplifted, Just undefined. Poor Lenny, Ten gifts too many, The curse of being versatile . . . Bernstein overflowed with so… more »