Conductor Leonard Bernstein Analysis

The picture here depicts of conductor, Leonard Bernstein, center of the stage with a cigarette in one hand and a giant manuscript in another, well dressed, posing for the camera in a weary expression under the significant lights of a grand performance hall.
The angle of the view brings Leonard to a perspective of importance, with sharp focus in comparison to the background below and above. The brightly lit, yet emptiness of the stage with hundreds, if not thousands of seats, neatly stacked stands that the musicians would use during the great performances to entertain the many audiences to come and go, and the cigarette in Leonard's hands signify that this is was taken after an event that had recently filled all these seats; the stage blooming with life and emotion, as the maestro himself would set the setting and the pace of stories written by himself and many others.
Giant manuscript can be examined with notions of hard work and dedication of many scrutinizing hours to make sure it's perfect as his vision allows it. The music he had written is as long as a modern day TV shows and movies, spanning anything from 15 to 25 minutes to plays that goes on for hours. The manuscript he is holding is also a sharp focus of the picture, its hundreds of pages
The well dressed for the occasion attire, yet slightly messy hair gives us the long hours he had put in the middle of stage with lots of emotions and movement to bring the stage to life. Every performance of story written by many others, and some himself, looks like it would go through this same process, and after such event, the at-ease Leonard is satisfied and rewarding himself with a cigarette that probably would not allow anyone else to partake by the owners of this particular, grandiose, performance