Leonard Bernstein citáty a výroky
Leonard Bernstein: Citáty v angličtine
"What Makes Opera Grand?", Vogue (December 1958)
Leonard Bernstein, statement of 1953, quoted in A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit (2006) by Cyrus M. Copeland, p. 190
“So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?”
The Unanswered Question (1976)
Kontext: 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?
Leonard Bernstein: The Gift Of Music
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 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.”
Zdroj: 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 discusses material & structure in Bach's St. Matthew Passion," Bernstein Century - Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Nypo, Et Al (1999) (at 6:31)