Frasi di Leonard Bernstein
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
„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)
„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
„Callas? She was pure electricity.“
— Leonard Bernstein
As quoted in Callas: The Art and the Life (1974) by John Ardoin
