Bernstein's Carnegie Hall debut
1943 · Event
The 25-year-old assistant conductor steps in at a few hours' notice for an ailing Bruno Walter in a live national broadcast and becomes famous overnight.
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Around 1943
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Apartheid (1948)