Leonard Bernstein at Work: His Final Years, 1984-1990 (Amadeus)
This work features iconic image after iconic image, laid out for us in stark black and white alongside moving and deeply personal quotes from friends and colleagues. It is hard to imagine a photoretrospective of Bernstein's life could be this powerful a musical retrospective, yes. But photographic, no. Bernstein was many things in life: composer, conductor, husband, teacher, father but he was never silent. Maybe that is why this collection works so well. --New York Journal of Books