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Leonard Bernstein
Geburtstag: 25. August 1918
Todesdatum: 14. Oktober 1990
Leonard Bernstein war ein US-amerikanischer Komponist, Dirigent und Pianist ukrainisch-jüdischer Abstammung.
Zitate Leonard Bernstein
"What Makes Opera Grand?", Vogue (December 1958)
Of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
"Why Don't You Run Upstairs and Write a Nice Gershwin Tune?", in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1955.
Leonard Bernstein: The Gift Of Music
Leonard Bernstein, statement of 1953, quoted in A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit (2006) by Cyrus M. Copeland, p. 190
The Cambridge Companion to Conducting p. 16.
„So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?“
— Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswered Question
The Unanswered Question (1976)
Kontext: Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?
„To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation.“
Leonard Bernstein, "Leonard Bernstein discusses material & structure in Bach's St. Matthew Passion," Bernstein Century - Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Nypo, Et Al (1999) (at 6:31)
„I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.“
Quelle: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
— Leonard Bernstein, buch The Joy of Music
Quelle: The Joy of Music
