Frases de Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
Data de nascimento: 25. Agosto 1918
Data de falecimento: 14. Outubro 1990
Leonard Bernstein foi um maestro, compositor, e pianista americano. Vencedor de vários Emmys, Bernstein foi o primeiro compositor nascido nos Estados Unidos no século XX a receber reconhecimento mundial[carece de fontes?], ficando famoso na direcção da Filarmônica de Nova York, os célebres concertos para jovens na televisão , entre 1954 e 1989, e suas composições, como West Side Story, Candide, e On the Town. Uma das figuras mais influentes na história da música clássica americana, patrocinou obras de compositores americanos e inspirador das carreiras de uma geração de novos músicos.
Citações Leonard Bernstein
„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)
„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)
„Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.“
— Leonard Bernstein
The Cambridge Companion to Conducting p. 16.
„Callas? She was pure electricity.“
— Leonard Bernstein
As quoted in Callas: The Art and the Life (1974) by John Ardoin
„The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together — with a thin paste of flour and water… I don’t think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky… but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.“
— Leonard Bernstein
Of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
"Why Don't You Run Upstairs and Write a Nice Gershwin Tune?", in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1955.
„To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation.“
— Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein, "Leonard Bernstein discusses material & structure in Bach's St. Matthew Passion," Bernstein Century - Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Nypo, Et Al (1999) (at 6:31)
