Word: leonarde
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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...
...Leonard van der Kuijp, chair of the Sanskrit and Indian studies department, could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...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...
...work 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...
...along. He chose his tempi with the utmost of care; the opening movement was convincingly played, its construction logically laid out, its peaks ecstatic and its valleys expansive. When one thinks of all the great conductors who have left recordings of the work—from Bruno Walter to Leonard Bernstein—and how divergent their interpretations have been, Ozawa’s performance seemed to capture and tie together some of their most effective moments...