Over the course of his career, Leonard Bernstein was relentlessly watched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Tag Archives | Leonard Bernstein
How television saved Janis Ian and The Beatles from radio
The other evening I was listening to KZSC, college radio for UC Santa Cruz. The deejays were pondering Michelle Shocked’s bizarre homophobic outburst at Yoshis in San Francisco (and for which she has apologized). As if to cleanse their palettes of this incident, they played a relatively early Janis Ian tune: “At Seventeen.” Suddenly I […]