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...Thursday’s “Boston’s Bernstein?? concert was a tongue-in-cheek look at Leonard Bernstein??s youth, this past Saturday’s gala was a profound summary of Bernstein??s catalog.Sanders Theatre was all about Bernstein at the Gala Concert closing out the weekend’s festival in honor of the composer. The concert, entitled “Celebrating Bernstein,” featured Harvard’s finest musicians and performers, along with national talent, performing his diverse works for a full and enthusiastic...
Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OFA) kicked off its festival honoring acclaimed composer, conductor, and musician Leonard Bernstein ’39 last Thursday evening in Paine Hall with a concert featuring student performers. The concert explored the musical influences from Bernstein??s youth and time at Harvard during the first half, and continued demonstrating the presence of these influences in Bernstein??s own works in the latter half of the performance. It was a fitting retrospective on Bernstein??s early development as a musician as well as a remarkable display...
...Bernstein??s daughter Nina says that the return of her father’s music to Harvard is fitting, given that he never quite got over his salad days in the Yard...
...recording catches the clink of ice in tumblers, as well as Bernstein??s candidly expressive language. After the Kroks sang a song he’d written for them, Bernstein gave the young musicians an analogy they were bound to remember: "You know what you understand, what very few jazz people understand, except the good ones, is that every beat is a downbeat, and no beat is a downbeat," he says on the tape...
...Bernstein??s Jewish background was an important—though often unnoticed—influence on his music. Perhaps his best-known piece of explicitly Jewish music was the "Kaddish Symphony," which explores one’s relationship to god, and contains extensive references to traditional Hebrew music...