A richly illustrated book that focuses on Leonard Bernstein's relationship with the music city of Vienna on the occasion of his 100th birthday, honoring the great conductor and composer as a political figure while also exploring his Jewish roots. Musically socialized in the synagogue of his childhood in Boston, educated at Harvard, and professionally based in New York, Bernstein had a lifelong connection with Vienna since 1966: he reintroduced the repressed Gustav Mahler to the Viennese, his collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic became legendary, and he even engaged in Austrian domestic politics. "I enjoy Vienna incredibly - as much as a Jew can. It is full of sad memories here, and you deal with so many former Nazis (and possibly still Nazis); and you can never be sure.".