Леонард Бернстайн цитаты
Леонард Бернстайн
Дата рождения: 25. Август 1918
Дата смерти: 14. Октябрь 1990
Леона́рд Бернста́йн — американский композитор, пианист, дирижёр и популяризатор академической музыки. Дирижировал многими ведущими оркестрами мира, главный дирижёр Нью-Йоркской филармонии . Впервые исполнил многие произведения американских композиторов. Автор балетов, симфоний, мюзиклов и других музыкальных произведений.
Цитаты Леонард Бернстайн
„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.
„The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.“
— Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein: The Gift Of Music
„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)
„A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.“
— Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein, statement of 1953, quoted in A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit (2006) by Cyrus M. Copeland, p. 190
„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.
„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)
„So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?“
— Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswered Question
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)
„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)
„Callas? She was pure electricity.“
— Leonard Bernstein
As quoted in Callas: The Art and the Life (1974) by John Ardoin
