Bernstien Final Chapter 11 8/17/10 10:41 PM Page 84 Left to right: Murray Perahia, Marilyn Horne, Leonard Bernstein, Leontyne Price, James Levine, and Samuel Ramey. backstage Intermission Photo Op Left to right: Yo-Yo Ma, Charles Wadsworth, James Levine, Leontyne Price, Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey, Edgar Bronfman Jr., and Joanne Woodward. 84 Bernstien Final Chapter 11 8/17/10 10:41 PM Page 85 “Music for Life” AIDS Benefit, Carnegie Hall, November 8, 1987 Left to right: Paula Robison, James Levine, Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Ramey, and Joanne Woodward. Left to right: James Levine, Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Leonard Bernstein, and Joanne Woodward. 85 Bernstien Final Chapter 11 8/17/10 10:41 PM Page 86 Left to right: Betty Comden, Shirley Bernstein, James Levine, and Leonard Bernstein. post-concert dinner reception in the equitable center • “Every time we were together...he was enormously erudite, perceptive, fun, serious... the whole spectrum of his personality. He had a capacity for this entire range, all the time.” —James Levine Left to right: Shirley Bernstein, James Levine, and Leonard Bernstein. 86 Bernstien Final Chapter 11 8/17/10 10:41 PM Page 87 Leonard Bernstein, Rosamond Bernier, and Adolph Green. “How happy your friendship makes me. It fills me with the simple and complicated joy of knowing there can be a meaning to life—that our haphazard and rambling walk is filled with endless connections into the past and the future. What I’m saying is—I’m not writing—I’m only looking for a way to say I love you, my friend.” —Adolph Green Left to right: Shirley Bernstein, Gunter Hensler (standing), Leonard Bernstein, Alison Ames, Adolph Green, and Nina Bernstein. 87 Bernstien Final Chapter 12 8/17/10 10:46 PM Page 88 When it came time for Leonard Bernstein to rehearse, he appeared onstage draped in Nell Carter’s purple boa and wearing shades, to the surprise and delight of everyone present..