{"id":5486,"date":"2014-02-18T16:36:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T00:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2014-02-18T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T00:58:53","slug":"other-matters-bernstein-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/02\/other-matters-bernstein-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Matters: Bernstein, Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;FX82O5JvxUdb1nA2djAzSAzV480vrCXQ&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Leonard Bernstein took a bit of a thrashing here recently in the Sid Caesar spoof and some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bernstein.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bernstein.jpg\" alt=\"Bernstein\" width=\"151\" height=\"154\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5487\" \/><\/a>comments that followed it. So, it is only fair to let Maestro Bernstein (1918-1990) redeem himself. The <em>Rifftides<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/02\/cd-rudy-royston.html\"target=\"_blank\">recommendation<\/a> of Rudy Royston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new album mentions that he includes Mozart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ave Verum Corpus.\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 The opening seconds of the performance that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re about to watch show the sort of Bernstein mannerism that was fodder for Caesar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s satire. Still, eight months <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mozart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Mozart.jpg\" alt=\"Mozart\" width=\"131\" height=\"142\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5488\" \/><\/a>before his death, Bernstein and the Bavarian Radio symphony orchestra and chorus gave a gorgeous performance of the piece that Mozart wrote in 1791. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ave Verum Corpus\u00e2\u20ac\u009d inspired Lizst, Tchaikovsky, no doubt countless other composers&#151;and Rudy Royston. This was in the basilica of the parish church in Waldsassen, Bavaria.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6KUDs8KJc_c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;FX82O5JvxUdb1nA2djAzSAzV480vrCXQ&#8221;] Leonard Bernstein took a bit of a thrashing here recently in the Sid Caesar spoof and some of the comments that followed it. So, it is only fair to let Maestro Bernstein (1918-1990) redeem himself. The Rifftides recommendation of Rudy Royston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new album mentions that he includes Mozart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ave Verum Corpus.\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 The opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}