... if we knew what half these pieces were. I'm sure somewhere in the album data is a list of titles. Also (once again) it would be nice if we could download single albums from multiple album sets, rather than having to commit to all six at once.
Bernstein overflowed with so much musical energy and he distributed pleasure so widely that only a man of his yawning ambition could be disappointed in himself. But he signaled his insecurities so persuasively that the rest of the world, too, wanted him to do more. He was the first American-born conductor of international stature, the incarnation of his country's cultural maturity. He was the smooth populist, as articulate about music as he was with it,… more »
When Leonard Bernstein turned 70, his old friend and co-conspirator Stephen Sondheim reworked the lyrics of Kurt Weill's song "The Saga of Jenny," the girl who "would make up her mind": There once was a boy named Lenny Whose talents were varied and many, So many that he was inclined Never to make up his mind. In fact, he was so gifted He seldom felt uplifted, Just undefined. Poor Lenny, Ten gifts too many, The curse of being versatile . . . Bernstein overflowed with so… more »
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