Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live in a nine-room duplex just cater-cornered from Carnegie Hall. But Lennie's fierce energy makes it hard for him to relax; when he plays with the children, reports Felicia, "he plays too hard, throws them too high, squeezes them too tight." For all his "settling down." Bernstein has not noticeably slowed his pace. He seems to feel that he is still living the overture. "We still sit up nights." says an old friend, "and talk about what we'll do when we grow...
...Bernstein knows that "in the next year or two. when I grow up, I'll have to decide what to do. It used to come so easy. Now I get tired." The wonder boy has become the man who wonders...
...Central Line. At 38, Bernstein must tell himself that his talents have so far produced great excitement but no great works. He has leaped and dived and didoed like a scintillating porpoise in the mainstream of musical life, without having changed its course. Neither has any other contemporary musician of his age?but Bernstein insists that he must follow "that central line." as he once called it, "the line of mystery and fire" that, as he believes, is followed by all truly dedicated artists...
After one of Bernstein's more dramatic evenings, an onlooker remarked slyly: "It was really a shame tonight. The composer was unable to carry out Bernstein's intentions." Yet Bernstein probably violates the composer's intentions far less often than his manner may suggest. His style is neither insincere nor imprecise. It is particularly effective with modern music, with which Bernstein has had consistent success, and whose complex rhythms he feels perhaps more deeply than he feels the serenities of the classics...
Sullivan Sans Gilbert? As a composer, Bernstein has suffered one curious fate: his serious music, at least, is almost never played by others. If Conductor Bernstein did not come to the aid of Composer Bernstein, it might never get played at all. The main case that can be made against his music is that it is eclectic?and Bernstein knows it. Sometimes, when he hears a piece of music he particularly likes, he will exclaim: "God, that's wonderful. I must write something like it." He can put on any musical mask he chooses: he has successfully written boogie-style...