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Nov 7, 2013 · In July of 1947, a few months after the composer announced his engagement to the Costa Rican actress Felicia Cohn Montealegre, Marketa Morris revisits the question of Bernstein’s conflicted sexual identity, still raging in his dreams:
Leonard Bernstein (/ ˈ b ɜːr n s t aɪ n / BURN-styne; [1] born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international ...
- A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. Leonard Bernstein.
- It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.
- To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. Leonard Bernstein. Time, Stress, Humor.
- Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Leonard Bernstein. Music, Communication, Talking.
Aug 24, 2018 · Born 100 years ago on Aug. 25, 1918, Bernstein was a larger-than-life character — on stage as a conductor, at the piano as a composer, on TV as an educator and in a sometimes tangled personal...
Feb 25, 2018 · In 1980, Leonard Bernstein gave a powerful message to the graduates of Johns Hopkins University on the power of imagination, fantasy, hope, and dreams. One of many great quotes from his address: The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you ...
Bernstein was one of only 5 students accepted into a master conducting class taught by renowned Russian-born conductor Serge Koussevitzky, who served as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s music...
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Bernstein explained the importance of "inter-disciplinary values — that the best way to 'know' a thing is in the context of another discipline." He communicated his ideas of the universality of musical language through wide-ranging analogies to linguistics, aesthetic philosophy, acoustics as well as music history.
