March 1990: James Levine (partly obscured on the left side of the photo), Leonard Bernstein and the ESQ were feted by Deutsche Grammophon at the Trattoria dell’Arte near Carnegie Hall for the Grammy Awards we had all won that year. Bernstein had just led the Vienna Philharmonic in Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony. Just before this photo was taken, I reminded the Maestro that 20 years earlier, I had been his concertmaster for a performance of the same symphony with the student orchestra at Tanglewood.
