“By the time Leonard Bernstein died in 1990, he was unquestionably America’s best-known classical musician. Yet his achievements were viewed with persistent skepticism by critics and scholars. They acknowledged his wide-ranging talents–he was equally gifted as a conductor, a pianist, and a composer of music for both the concert hall and the musical-comedy stage–but his underlying seriousness was always in question…”
Archives for October 2, 2013
TT: Snapshot
Leonard Bernstein plays and conducts Ravel’s Concerto in G, accompanied by the Orchestra of France:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
TT: Almanac
“The simplification of anything is always sensational.”
G.K. Chesterton, Varied Types