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Susan Goldman Rubin

Biography: Susan Goldman Rubin is the author of more than a dozen books for young readers, including Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter (Abrams) and The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin (Holiday House), both ALA Notable Books. Susan lives in Malibu, California.

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Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein

By author: Susan Goldman Rubin
ISBN: 978-1-58089-344-2
Ages: 9 - 12
Availability: In stock
Price: $19.95

Beginning with Lenny’s childhood in Boston and ending with his triumphant conducting debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York Philharmonic when he was just twenty-five, Music Was IT draws readers into the energetic, passionate, challenging, music-filled life of young Leonard Bernstein.

"An impeccably researched and told biography of Leonard Bernstein’s musical apprenticeship, from toddlerhood to his conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 25."
--Kirkus Reviews

"...highly readable and inspiring..."
--Booklist

"Rubin spins [Leonard Bernstein's] biography into a tale that reads as smoothly and compellingly as a novel."
--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books