Watch Leonard Bernstein’s cigarette lighting machine

Watch Leonard Bernstein’s cigarette lighting machine

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norman lebrecht

November 13, 2016

It plays an aria from Candide.

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  • Anmarie says:
    November 13, 2016 at 10:28 am

    Surely, it deserves a Nobel for Literature!

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  • John Borstlap says:
    November 13, 2016 at 9:20 pm

    Since smoking reduces conductors’ life spans, wouldn’t it be better if the machine would be adapted to offering heated-up batons for conductors who have abstained from smoking and got very, very old but have become a bit cold and routine in their interpretations?

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