Maestro

Lenny, it's always, for me, 564 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:18,833 rather difficult to classify you professionally 565 00:37:18,916 --> 00:37:21,125 since you do so many things at the same time. 566 00:37:21,208 --> 00:37:23,416 What do you consider your primary occupation? 567 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:27,625 I guess I'd have to say that my primary occupation is musician. 568 00:37:28,458 --> 00:37:31,041 Anything that has to do with music is my province, 569 00:37:31,125 --> 00:37:33,583 wouldn't you say? Whether it's composing it 570 00:37:33,666 --> 00:37:36,833 or conducting it, or teaching it, or studying it, or playing it. 571 00:37:36,916 --> 00:37:39,125 As long as it's music, I like it and I do it. 572 00:37:39,208 --> 00:37:42,083 [Edward] Felicia, do you have trouble keeping up with Lenny's activities? 573 00:37:42,166 --> 00:37:45,000 It gets pretty hard. He's taken on many activities. 574 00:37:45,083 --> 00:37:47,291 This season promises to be a very hectic one. 575 00:37:47,375 --> 00:37:49,708 Among them, he's writing two musical shows. 576 00:37:49,791 --> 00:37:51,750 One of them is an adaptation, 577 00:37:51,833 --> 00:37:54,250 Romeo and Juliet, that's West Side Story 578 00:37:54,333 --> 00:37:56,458 with Jerry Robbins and Arthur Laurents 579 00:37:56,541 --> 00:37:59,416 and wonderfully-talented young lyricist Stevie Sondheim. 580 00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:02,500 And then he's doing four feature presentations 581 00:38:02,583 --> 00:38:05,500 in Omnibus, the CBS television program. 582 00:38:05,583 --> 00:38:06,583 And, um... 583 00:38:08,166 --> 00:38:10,916 -Was that right? -You know my schedule better than I do. 584 00:38:11,375 --> 00:38:12,750 [Edward] Felicia, what about you? 585 00:38:12,833 --> 00:38:15,250 Are you engaged in other things besides acting? 586 00:38:15,958 --> 00:38:20,625 Well, it gets pretty hard to do much more than take care of this household. 587 00:38:20,708 --> 00:38:26,541 My husband, the children, and acting takes the rest of the time that's left over. 588 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:29,333 -And memorizing my projects. -Well... 589 00:38:29,416 --> 00:38:30,833 I can't help that. 590 00:38:30,916 --> 00:38:33,083 Lenny, what's the big difference in the life 591 00:38:33,166 --> 00:38:35,791 of Composer Bernstein and Conductor Bernstein? 592 00:38:36,666 --> 00:38:37,500 Well, I sup... 593 00:38:38,583 --> 00:38:40,583 I suppose it's a difference. It's... 594 00:38:41,333 --> 00:38:44,208 a personality difference which occurs between any composer 595 00:38:44,291 --> 00:38:47,375 versus any... or any creator versus any performer. 596 00:38:48,333 --> 00:38:50,500 Any performer, whether it's 597 00:38:50,583 --> 00:38:53,250 Toscanini or Tallulah Bankhead, whoever it is, 598 00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:54,958 leads a kind of public life. 599 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,583 An extrovert life, if you will. 600 00:38:57,666 --> 00:39:00,291 It's an oversimplified word, but something like that. 601 00:39:00,375 --> 00:39:03,666 Whereas a creative person, uh, 602 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,083 sits alone in this great studio that you see here 603 00:39:07,166 --> 00:39:09,000 and writes all by himself and... 604 00:39:09,875 --> 00:39:12,958 communicates with the world in a very private way and... 605 00:39:14,125 --> 00:39:16,125 and lives a rather... 606 00:39:17,083 --> 00:39:20,500 grand inner life rather than a grand outer life. 607 00:39:22,083 --> 00:39:24,291 And if you carry around both personalities... 608 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:31,125 I suppose that means you become a schizophrenic and that's the end of it. 609 00:39:31,208 --> 00:39:34,041 [Edward] Felicia, you must be interested in music too, aren't you? 610 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,666 ["To What You Said" by Leonard Bernstein playing] 611 00:39:38,750 --> 00:39:39,958 [Jamie] Daddy. 612 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,208 Daddy! 613 00:39:44,166 --> 00:39:45,291 Catch! 614 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,208 [Leonard chuckles] 615 00:39:57,750 --> 00:39:59,916 Well, I love you too, darling. 616 00:40:01,083 --> 00:40:02,583 So much. Thank you. 617 00:40:13,791 --> 00:40:16,416 Well, hello, children of Zeus! 618 00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:17,500 My man! 619 00:40:17,583 --> 00:40:19,208 -Hello, Lenny. -Hello. 620 00:40:19,750 --> 00:40:21,250 What a lovely surprise. 621 00:40:21,333 --> 00:40:22,958 That's why I love New York City. 622 00:40:23,041 --> 00:40:24,375 Come out of your apartment 623 00:40:24,458 --> 00:40:27,291 and all of sudden you just run into people that you love. 624 00:40:27,375 --> 00:40:29,708 -I'm going downtown. Oh. -[David] So am I. 625 00:40:30,458 --> 00:40:32,875 [Ellen] Well, we're cutting across the park to go to Saks 626 00:40:32,958 --> 00:40:36,583 -before the deluge. -Who are y