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How Leonard Bernstein mixed composing with teaching

In 1982, while working on his opera, "A Quiet Place," famed conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein spent several months at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. There he engaged students in an unconventional way to workshop the material while he composed it, as Dean Emeritus Charles Webb describes to correspondent Mo Rocca in this web exclusive.
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