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'Something Develops Onstage Called Love': Baltimore Symphony Celebrates The Bernstein Centennial

Recorded live on stage at the Meyerhoff, Scott Simon joins BSO music director Marin Alsop and Leonard Bernstein's daughter Jamie for a conversation and musical celebration.
Leonard Bernstein composing in 1955.

It's the Leonard Bernstein centennial this year and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has been celebrating.

Last weekend, music director and the orchestra played music from Bernstein's , and — and shared photographs and videos of Bernstein with the audience. "Something develops onstage called love," he says in one clip, from a 1990 interview on . "I'm sorry to use this four-letter-word; it's just so abused. But that's what it is — that's what it's all about. And it's not just a love between me and the orchestra. It is among themselves, and boy, does that make

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