Listen to For the Ages, the New York Historical Society's podcast hosted by David M. Rubinstein.

In his latest conversation, David speaks with Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson about his book The Liberation Trilogy, looking at North Africa

during World War II and the harrowing campaigns that took place in Sicily and Italy.

And best-selling author Simon Winchester

illuminates how humanity's conquest to acquire territory

and wield its power has so definitively shaped history in land how the hunger for ownership shaped the

modern world. Simon and David have a wide-ranging conversation that examines European imperialism, the dispossession of Native American populations,

and Joseph Stalin's brutal collectivization in Soviet territories.

That's For the Ages, available on Apple and Spotify.

Episode 423 of the Bowery Boys, Leonard Bernstein's New York, New York.

It's a hell of a town.

Hey, it's the Bowery Boys.

Hey. Hey! Hi there. Welcome to the Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young.

And this is Tom Myers and this, ladies and gentlemen, is Leonard Bernstein.

On the morning of Sunday, November 14, 1943, at 9 a.m. a young Leonard Bernstein woke up in his Carnegie Hall

apartment to the phone ringing. Bernstein was 25 years old and had just been appointed assistant conductor of the New York

Philharmonic two months before in September.

He was only 25 years old and the youngest person and the first American ever to serve as an

assistant conductor for the Philharmonic. But on the other end of the line, the associate

manager of the Philharmonic, Bruno Zerato, delivered some news

that would change Bernstein's career trajectory.

The Philharmonic's scheduled conductor, Bruno Walter, had the flu, and Bernstein had to go on that afternoon.

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