Word: bernstein
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...entire session was recorded on tape, and Bernstein later sent it along to the Kroks with a note saying, "The enclosed tape is rapidly becoming one of my cherished possessions," and signing it, "Twelve big hugs...
...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...
...Despite the flamboyant life described by his associates, Bernstein also bridged the gap between high culture, elitist culture, and popular culture and the popular song
Even in his senior thesis in Music—dealing with race relations and the origin of an American musical identity—Bernstein tried to address questions of heritage...
These dilemmas plagued the composer through some of his most famous works as well. "Bernstein thought about having ‘West Side Story’ be about Jews and gentiles," Oja, returning to the tension between the Jewish and Irish while Bernstein was growing up in Boston...