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Actor tries to capture essence of Bernstein

By Patti Hartigan

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 30, 2012

Hershey Felder, who has made a career performing one-man shows about musical greats like Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, and George Gershwin, is taking on the role of another composer in “Maestro: Leonard Bernstein.” Felder’s aim is to reveal the conflicts and complications beneath Bernstein’s self-promoting image. For all his fame and fortune, Bernstein wanted to be known as a serious composer.

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