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    Leonard Bernstein

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    Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ↗


    — Leonard Bernstein

    #communication

    To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. ↗


    — Leonard Bernstein

    #stress #humor

    Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own. ↗


    — Leonard Bernstein

    #art

    Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. ↗


    — Leonard Bernstein

    #inspirational

    I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. ↗


    — Leonard Bernstein

    #having #i #interested #itself #like

    This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. ↗


    — Leonard Bernstein

    #before #ever #intensely #make #more

    In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing. ↗


    — Leonard Bernstein

    #days #everybody #expected #man #mark

    Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. ↗


    — Leonard Bernstein

    #conductors #synonymous #technique #two #words

    A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ↗


    — Leonard Bernstein

    #better #bright #child #day #forward

    To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ↗


    — Leonard Bernstein

    #enough #great #great things #needed #plan






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    Did you know about Leonard Bernstein?

    One of his friends at Harvard was philosopher Donald Davidson with whom he played piano four hands. In 1951 Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic in the world première of the Symphony No. The opening night (which Bernstein attended in Glasgow) was conducted by Bernstein's former student John Mauceri.

    " He is quite possibly the conductor whose name is best known to the public in general especially the American public. His fame derived from his long tenure as the music director of the New York Philharmonic from his conducting of concerts with most of the world's leading orchestras and from his music for West Side Story as well as Candide Wonderful Town On the Town and his own Mass.

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