The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art enriched, ennobled, encouraged they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.
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Leonard Bernstein was a 20th-century American conductor and composer. Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international acclaim. Read more on Wikipedia →