Nicholas W. Allard

“Well, how was I supposed to know he’d turn out to be Leonard Bernstein?”

That was Sam Bernstein’s witty defense when a journalist asked whether the rumor was true that he refused to pay for his son’s music lessons because he wanted Leonard, the legendary pianist, maestro of the New York Philharmonic, and composer of West Side Story, to work for the family’s hair and beauty supply business.

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