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Maestrostarring Bradley Cooper as West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein badis all about the great loves of his life: music and his wife. It's also about how he balanced those things with his love for men, bernstein bad.

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A sense of doom hangs over this exploration of the distance that exists between people, revolving around unnamed characters in an unnamed town. O ver the last decade or so, literary fiction has often taken a particular shape on the page. Everything is folded into one neat justified column — memories, digressions, dialogue never signalled with quotation marks. New paragraphs are scarce. Page breaks do the work chapter breaks used to. This has an effect on language and tone. There is usually a resulting flatness, a poised Jamesian distance from which everything unspools. The diction is lofty and purposeful. Disturbances or disruptions are embedded in this cool, calm delivery, underscoring their gravity while also maintaining distance. Conversations of a surprising intimacy prompt unexpected reflections. The narrators rarely have names; geographic location is often unspecified; plot is hazy.

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Maestro , starring Bradley Cooper as West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein , is all about the great loves of his life: music and his wife. It's also about how he balanced those things with his love for men. The movie, which Cooper also directed and co-wrote with Josh Singer, is accurate in reflecting that prior to and throughout the course of Bernstein's year marriage to the actor Felicia Montealegre, he had affairs with men. Montealegre, played by Carey Mulligan , knew the truth about his sexuality and partners outside of the marriage, but chose to marry him, and stayed with him until her death in , raising three children together. In fact, she wrote a letter to him early on in their marriage, assuring him that she knew he was gay but that she would grin and bear it. They met in and were briefly engaged that year before the engagement was broken off, but they ended up marrying in In the undated letter, believed to have been written in late or , Montealegre called their marriage a "bloody mess. She is clear in her understanding of his attraction to men and even concedes that they don't have to be married forever if it's not working:.

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But who was the legendary conductor-composer and why did his career change the face of American classical music forever? Born in , Bernstein was an acclaimed conductor, composer and pianist, who earned a remarkable 16 Grammy Awards throughout his career. But who was the man behind the music? Leonard Bernstein is known for being one of the most important figures in the history of American classical music. As a composer, he redefined the sound of Americana, with orchestral works such as his Candide Overture , and Mass still being heard in the concert hall today. His musical, West Side Story , is performed around the world, with notable productions on Broadway and in the West End decades later. The musical also inspired two films, released in both the 20th and 21st centuries. Read more: 10 best pieces of music by Leonard Bernstein. He is also hailed as the first great American conductor; notably, he was the first American to conduct at La Scala and to lead a major US symphony orchestra — in his case, the New York Philharmonic.

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We hold it in or else we spit it out. This is an incredible debut novel by Sarah Bernstein and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The world is collapsing around her and so does she, although on her own. This is also a novel fused with literary references, some of which are referred in an afternote, although used more subtly that her failed-academic narrator who admits it occurred to me that I was basically a thief, absolutely a fraud, every word I had ever written cherry-picked from a rather narrow and certainly biased corpus of texts. I wish I had more time to write about this. It's also about how he balanced those things with his love for men. All the same and in truth I behaved badly. Want to read. Why never mentioned at faculty meetings? I watched the trees submit to the passing of the seasons.

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I managed to source a copy of the original Daunt Books UK paperback release. Jeremiah Raymond Antwi. O ver the last decade or so, literary fiction has often taken a particular shape on the page. More reviews and ratings. Tough call. This is an incredible debut novel by Sarah Bernstein and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I watched the trees submit to the passing of the seasons. Who knows. For what were we to our loved ones if not obstacles in a lifelong struggle to pretend we were otherwise. Rate this book. Are we meant to understand the text in some way other than literally?