Word: bernsteins
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...past as being influenced by the Ivy League attitude wherein music could be intelligently discussed over cocktails and cigars, but never played by those same connoisseurs. Because Harvard was not seen as a vocational school, as conservatories were, it did not foster performers, but only stodgy academics. Leonard Bernstein ’39 said that, “At Harvard music was seen and not heard...
...space, this list would go on almost indefinitely. Little Richard, Jon Bon Jovi, Frank Sinatra, Garth Brooks, Cher, Leonard Bernstein, Rod Stewart and Robbie Williams have all sung The King’s high praises. Apparently even Britney Spears has been moved: “I think Elvis is the sexiest man to ever walk the earth. I love...
...makes repeated use of a two-note falling motive, first used in the last movement of Das Lied von der Erde, which Mahler extends to form a three-note quotation from Beethoven’s Les Adieux piano sonata. These motivic constructions permeate every movement of the piece. Leonard Bernstein, in his 1973 Norton lectures here at Harvard, defined the symphony as a farewell to life, tonality and “our Faustian society.” There was no doubt, however, that the BSO’s concert was a lovingly performed farewell to Ozawa...
...exciting but never hurried tempo, culminated in an electrifying outburst at its conclusion. In between the faster fugato sections were heavenly trumpet solos. While the third movement showcased the brass, the strings came through in the last movement, sustaining the intensity of the long phrases until the very end. Bernstein described the final page of the symphony as “the closest we have ever come, in any work of art, to experiencing the very act of dying. The slowness of this page is terrifying.” As the final notes died out, an interval of silent, respectful...
...pianos tend to be far less than grand. Although the Houses have practice facilities of their own, they often contain few rooms dedicated to keyboard practice, and their pianos are perpetually out of tune. Even the illustrious concert grand in the Eliot House tower—donated by Leonard Bernstein no less—needs serious reworking...