Leonard Bernstein’s 10-year affair in Japan
mainMari Yoshihara, a scholar at the University of Hawaii, has turned up 350 letters at the Library of Congress detailing an unknown love affair between the musician and Kunihiko Hashimoto, a young man he met who was working at a Tokyo insurance company.
Her researches will be published shortly by Oxford University Press under the title, Dearest Lenny: Letters from Japan and the Making of the World Maestro .
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photo: Hashimoto/OUP/The Guardian
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