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        If you were a well-heeled Massachusetts lady in the late 1920s and wanted your hair fixed like the moviestars, there was one man to turn to: Samuel Bernstein. In 1927, this entrepreneurial immigrant, who had arrivedin New York from Tsarist Russia,  26  the only local license to sell the machine for curling hair. Like manybusinessmen of the times, he expected his eldest son to follow him into the family firm. 

        But Louis Bernstein, known to everyone as Lenny (he officially changed his name to Leonard as ateenager), had different ideas. The family had no musical roots, but ten-year-old Lenny found himself drawnobsessively to his aunt’s piano. No matter that his father remained vehemently  27  the notion that heshould make music his life, there was but one path ahead. 

        For all his early misgivings, Samuel later  28  that his son was a genius. In his passport, LeonardBernstein simply called himself a “musician”—characteristic humility from a man whose broad   29  areunique in musical history. Bernstein was a conductor whose interpretive gifts over the course of five decadesshone light on the classics from Haydn to Mahler, Bartok to Stravinsky. He was a fine concert pianist andpioneering broadcaster; an educator, Harvard lecturer, writer and humanitarian; a husband, father, lover. Sucha  30  life was not without complexities, contradictions and critics—but oh, what a life.