Saturday 12 June 2021

Leonard Bernstein en Gran Canaria

a film by Pedro Schlueter

There is precious little material on the subject that one can actually show. No footage. Some photographs. Old newspapers. Some anecodotes told by Justus Frantz. Still, thanks to this film produced by Espacio Digital — it’s a bit of a stretch to call it a documentary — I learned a few things. Why, I didn’t even know that Bernstein visited Gran Canaria. But apparently, starting mid-1970s, he lived here for extended periods and even was considering buying a house in the south of the island. Now if he did, we would see much more than drone photography of the hills.

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