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During one seminar on 16th-century counterpoint, a professor chastised Bernstein for playing a nontraditional and dissonant composition. According to Shapero, who was also in the class, "Lenny took his fist and went BANG, like that," playing the piece despite the protestations...
Defying a powerful musical trend among musicians of his generation, Bernstein doggedly stuck to the doctrine of tonality—which centers a piece of music around major and minor chords based on a single key—as opposed to the 12-tone scale, which was being popularized by composer Arnold Schoenberg...
...very controversial at the time, because serious musicians were not supposed to write tonal music," says his daughter, Jamie A. M. Bernstein...
...wished to have been taken more seriously as a composer, but he refused to go atonal," says Bernstein’s other daughter, Nina M. Bernstein...
...Bernstein epically defended tonality when he was invited to deliver a series of Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, given in 1973, after a year’s residency in Eliot house...