Leonard Bernstein’s 10 big podium gifs

Leonard Bernstein’s 10 big podium gifs

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norman lebrecht

August 25, 2015

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Lenny would have been 97 today.

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Comments

  • Cavett Dunsby says:

    And in a couple of months it will be 25 years since Lenny died.
    He is sorely missed !

  • Daniel F. says:

    The blogkeeper seems to suggest by this post that LB was something like the Elvis of classical music. Dumbing LB down has been tried. It doesn’t work. He is both more and less than this sort of thing. An over-rated re-composer of Mahler and Shostakovich, a great, modest conductor of Haydn and his American contemporaries, Copland, Diamond, Shapero. An uneven composer–we’ll all be singing the songs from “West Side Story” as long as the planet does its rounds but not humming the meretricious “Mass” or the and the pompous Kaddish Symphony—and an unheralded pianist–the best you’ll ever hear in Gershwin’s Rhapsody and the Ravel G Major and, at the Norton Lectures, in Schoenberg, whom he played passionately (as he should be played).

  • Cavett Dunsby says:

    ==a great, modest conductor of…his American contemporaries, Copland, Diamond, Shapero.

    Yes, the recent book of letters edited by Nigel Simeone shows how loyal LB was to his US composer friends.

  • Stephen says:

    Had he not abused his body he might have been still alive, though he might have been a less interesting musician.

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