Leonard Bernstein and Duke Ellington got together on July 2, 1966 for an interview at the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company in River Hills, Wisconsin. Bernstein and the Duke discussed a variety of music-related topics including cultural centers, classical/jazz audiences, and composing music.
“Well maybe that’s really the difference between us, that you wrote symphonic jazz, and I wrote jazz symphonies.”
Leonard Bernstein to Duke Ellington (1966)
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