"I insisted that my musicians were to be treated with the same respect as Leonard Bernstein or JaschaHeifetz because they were just as good, both as men and musicians, " Granz said.
In fact, by the 1960s Los Angeles had played host, however fleetingly, to a huge variety of authors, musicians and artists, among them Bertolt Brecht, Joan Didion, JaschaHeifetz, David Hockney, Huxley himself, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann, Robert Motherwell, Nathanael West, Artur Rubinstein, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.