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22 August 2012

Just a Little Off the Top On this date in 1959, the New York Philharmonic played its first concert in Moscow, during a ground-breaking tour behind the Iron Curtain. Leonard Bernstein spruced up for his conducting appearance with a haircut at the American pavilion of an international trade fair, designed to extol the benefits of life in the U.S. View Bernstein’s marked score of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, performed on the tour, and other photos in the Philharmonic’s Digital Archives.

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Just a Little Off the Top

On this date in 1959, the New York Philharmonic played its first concert in Moscow, during a ground-breaking tour behind the Iron Curtain. Leonard Bernstein spruced up for his conducting appearance with a haircut at the American pavilion of an international trade fair, designed to extol the benefits of life in the U.S.

View Bernstein’s marked score of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, performed on the tour, and other photos in the Philharmonic’s Digital Archives.

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