Perhaps the only way to portray someone as mercurial as Leonard Bernstein is in the Cubist manner.

American poet Wallace Stevens suggested there were 13 ways of looking at a blackbird, but with Bernstein (1918-90) that barely scrapes the surface. He was conductor, composer, pianist, writer of popular musicals, educator and celebrity. One might devote entire volumes to his identity as a Jew, a homosexual, or a political activist.