Nov 18 2009
Leonard Bernstein: A Jewish Legacy
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Leonard Bernstein occupies avery special position music world protean, multi-faceted talents. capability draw absorb cultural influence ultimate eclectic, eventually forged style tt unmistakably own. record, wh includes vocal, choral instrumental pieces, recorded, performed published, demonstrates Jewish heritage played formative, lasting, decisive role ts process. earliest, Psalm 148 (sung English), written 17, steeped ultra-romantics style, especially Wagner’s; hardly contains hint lr Bernstein, innocent sweetness infinitely touching. longest, Halil, virtuoso piece flute piano percussion, written 1981 memory 19-year-old Israeli flutist killed 1973 Yom Kippur War. Ao written specific occasions friends Silhouette Jennie Tourel’s birthday Weddi (more…)