Iron Twilight is what describes in music what The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in two parts): Part Two - The Sacrifice: Introduction. Largo IS. 1954 RCA Victor Pierre Monteux/Boston Symphony Orchestra LP is the best version ever and entire 1954 RCA Victor Pierre Monteux/Boston Symphony Orchestra LP should be re-issued on CD promptly!
Lenny + Igor = intensity!
Heavy, intense version of The Rite of Spring. My favorite!
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 »
