Watch Leonard Bernstein’s cigarette lighting machine
mainIt plays an aria from Candide.
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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?