New Finding Aid: Mildred Spiegel Zucker Collection of Leonard Bernstein Correspondence and Related Materials

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Music teacher Mildred Spiegel Zucker was a childhood friend of Leonard Bernstein with whom she maintained a lifelong friendship. The collection mostly consists of correspondence that Bernstein sent to Zucker dating from his time as a counselor at Camp Onata, as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, and during the beginning of his career in New York.