# (Mildly salacious by 21st century standards) Leonard Bernstein query

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**Created:** [July 20, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mildly-salacious-by-21st-century-standards-leonard-bernstein-query/818298 "2018-07-20T22:22:07Z")
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#### Post date: [July 20, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mildly-salacious-by-21st-century-standards-leonard-bernstein-query/818298/1 "2018-07-20T22:22:07Z")

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On the occasion of his centennial, I was wondering whether any doper could steer me to some article I read maybe 15 years ago about the conductor/composer (possibly in The New Yorker: I have googled sans success) which included an anecdote about how he mischievously programmed a New York Philharmonic or Boston Symphony concert solely to have its program read “[name of famous classical composer, maybe Beethoven] ‘Fux’ (an actual classical composer) [another classical composer].”