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...difficult language and melodies well. Hilary K. Finucane ’09 treated Bernstein’s “Seven Anniversaries”—short pieces in tribute to important figures in his life—with emotion and subtlety, and echoes of Copland and Shapero resounded through her fine performance. The night got really interesting when an orchestra of piano, clarinet, recorder, accordion, two ukeleles, two percussionists, and three vocalists emerged for the world premiere of a Bernstein arrangement of the well-known Gershwin piece “Rhapsody In Blue,” which Bernstein...
...would say that Harvard was pervaded by anti-Semitism at that point," Shapero recalled in an interview last spring with...
...1930’s, Harvard was not welcoming to Jews, says fellow composer Harold S, Shapero ’41, a friend of Bernstein’s in Eliot House...
...already—not, I wouldn’t say famous. I mean, he definitely wasn’t Leonard Bernstein yet, but he was playing piano concertos or solos," recalls Shapero...
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...