„Was ist das?“
— Leonard Bernstein
Letzte Worte, 14. Oktober 1990
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Leonard Bernstein
Geburtstag: 25. August 1918
Todesdatum: 14. Oktober 1990
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Leonard Bernstein war ein US-amerikanischer Komponist, Dirigent und Pianist ukrainisch-jüdischer Abstammung.
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„Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.“
— Leonard Bernstein
"What Makes Opera Grand?", Vogue (December 1958)
„So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?“
— Leonard Bernstein
Context: 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?
The Unanswered Question (1976)
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„I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.“
— Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
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„The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.“
— Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein: The Gift Of Music
„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
Leonard Bernstein, statement of 1953, quoted in A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit (2006) by Cyrus M. Copeland, p. 190
„Callas? She was pure electricity.“
— Leonard Bernstein
As quoted in Callas: The Art and the Life (1974) by John Ardoin
