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With Petroc Trelawny. Including a review of The Leonard Bernstein Letters, edited by Nigel Simeone. This new collection of letters presents a revealing selection of exchanges between Bernstein and a wide range of correspondents including Aaron Copland, Bette Davis and Jerome Robbins, as well as his family. Petroc talks to Simeone, and is joined to review it by the American conductor and producer John Mauceri, a protege of Bernstein's, and the writer and broadcaster Edward Seckerson. Liz Mcdonald tells the story of the Scots-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who died in 1919 leaving a musical legacy including over 7,000 church organs, and 3000 libraries and music halls. Petroc catches up with Anne Midgette of the Washington Post about some of the current top music stories in the US, from the Minnesota Orchestra to New York's mayoral elections. And Joshua Rifkin, whose career as a pianist and academic has spanned Renaissance motets to ragtime masters, talks to Petroc about the music of Scott Joplin, growing up amongst the modernists of New York, and his now influential theory that most of Bach's choral works were sung with only one singer per part, an idea widely rejected when Rifkin first proposed it in the 1980s.