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Leonard Bernstein

Data di nascita:25. Agosto 1918
Data di morte:14. Ottobre 1990

Leonard Bernstein, nato con il nome di Louis , è stato un compositore, pianista e direttore d'orchestra statunitense. Secondo il sondaggio tra cento famosi direttori d'orchestra pubblicato dalla rivista Classic Voice nel dicembre 2011 è considerato il secondo più grande direttore d'orchestra di tutti i tempi dietro a Carlos Kleiber e davanti a Von Karajan e Toscanini.

Artista di grande fama internazionale, è stato direttore della New York Symphony Orchestra, dell'Orchestra filarmonica d'Israele e dal 1958 al 1968 direttore musicale della New York Philharmonic.

Frasi Leonard Bernstein

„[George Gershwin] Ora, mi parli di un uomo che aveva il tocco magico. Non so come facesse ad avere tutti quei successi. C'è gente che ci riesce sempre, per loro è come respirare. Non riesco a capire.“

— Leonard Bernstein
p. 200

„Improvvisamente, con Porgy t'accorgi che Gershwin era un grande compositore di teatro. Lo era sempre stato. Ed è per questo che la sua musica da concerto è poco convincente: si trattava in effetti di musica per teatro portata in sala da concerto.“

— Leonard Bernstein
p. 208

Sulla musica

„Cerca di imparare da George. Le tue canzoni sono troppo artificiose, questo è tutto. Un piccolo effetto dissonante nell'accompagnamento fa felice te e i tuoi amici intellettuali, ma pregiudica il grande successo.“

— Leonard Bernstein
p. 203

„Any great art work … 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

„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
The Joy of Music

„I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.“

— Leonard Bernstein

„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)

„Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.“

— Leonard Bernstein

„Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.“

— Leonard Bernstein

„We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow.
And make our garden grow!“

— Leonard Bernstein
Candide - Vocal Selections: Revised Edition Vocal Selections

„A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.“

— Leonard Bernstein

„The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.”“

— Leonard Bernstein

„The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us are endowed with the powers of fantasy, the dullest of dullards among us has the gift of dreams at night - visions and yearnings and hopes. Everyone can also think; it is the quality thought that makes the difference - not just the quality of logical thinking, but of imaginative thinking. And our greatest thinkers, those who have radically changed our world, have always arrived at their truths by dreaming them; they are first fantasized, and only then subjected to proof.“

— Leonard Bernstein

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Frasi di Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

Frasi Leonard Bernstein

„[George Gershwin] Ora, mi parli di un uomo che aveva il tocco magico. Non so come facesse ad avere tutti quei successi. C'è gente che ci riesce sempre, per loro è come respirare. Non riesco a capire.“

„Improvvisamente, con Porgy t'accorgi che Gershwin era un grande compositore di teatro. Lo era sempre stato. Ed è per questo che la sua musica da concerto è poco convincente: si trattava in effetti di musica per teatro portata in sala da concerto.“

„Cerca di imparare da George. Le tue canzoni sono troppo artificiose, questo è tutto. Un piccolo effetto dissonante nell'accompagnamento fa felice te e i tuoi amici intellettuali, ma pregiudica il grande successo.“

„Any great art work … 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.“

„Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.“

„To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.“

„This will be our reply to violence:
to make music more intensely,
more beautifully,
more devotedly than ever before.“

„Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning... except its own.“

„I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.“

„I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.“

„Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.“

„Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.“

„We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow.
And make our garden grow!“

„A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.“

„The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.”“

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