On an unusually sunny February afternoon, I met Craig Urquhart in his apartment at Berlin’s Nollendorfplatz, the beating heart of the city’s gay life. (Christopher Isherwood once rented a place here.) “I’m going to be very bad and have a gin,” Urquhart said, but then realized he didn’t have any ice. Urquhart was a longtime assistant of Leonard Bernstein; he now works as a composer and Senior Consultant for Press and Promotion at The Leonard Bernstein Office. In the centenary year of Bernstein’s birth, Urquhart remembered his boss and mentor.
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