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
„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, 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.“
The Cambridge Companion to Conducting p. 16.
„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
The Unanswered Question (1976)
Контексте: 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 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.“
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 discusses material & structure in Bach's St. Matthew Passion," Bernstein Century - Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Nypo, Et Al (1999) (at 6:31)
„I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.“
Источник: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
„Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning… except its own.“
— Leonard Bernstein, книга The Joy of Music
Источник: The Joy of Music
„Callas? She was pure electricity.“
As quoted in Callas: The Art and the Life (1974) by John Ardoin