Music Appreciation

elleng

(130,948 posts) Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:45 PM Aug 2020

TOMORROW is Leonard Bernstein's Birth Anniversary,

and will be celebrated @ 6:30 a.m. with a Bernstein Dance, @ https://weta.org/listen-live

Join me (HAHAHA!) or whoever is awake!

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TOMORROW is Leonard Bernstein's Birth Anniversary, (Original Post) elleng Aug 2020 OP

102 years ago PJMcK Aug 2020 #1

Got to see him lead the Boston Symphony in December 1972... regnaD kciN Aug 2020 #2

WOW! elleng Aug 2020 #3

They'll run it over and over throughout the day. NT mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 #4

No, they didn't, looks like didn't even play it @ 6:30 a.m! elleng Aug 2020 #5

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)

1. 102 years ago

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:51 PM

Aug 2020

There's an interview with the maestro's father in which he was asked if he had any idea his son would grow up to be such a musical giant. The elder Mr. Bernstein replied, "Not really. I had no idea he'd grow up to be Leonard Bernstein!"

Enjoy the broadcast, elleng. I'll be enjoying my sleep!

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)

2. Got to see him lead the Boston Symphony in December 1972...

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Aug 24, 2020, 08:12 PM

Aug 2020

…from the front row, about ten feet away.

The program was Beethoven’s 6th and Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex.”

elleng

(130,948 posts)

3. WOW!

Reply to regnaD kciN (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 24, 2020, 08:17 PM

Aug 2020

I saw him from WAY up high (where Dad got us seats) when I was a kid, probably at The City Center in NYC, a family/children's program; he did them often.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,464 posts)

4. They'll run it over and over throughout the day. NT

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:03 PM

Aug 2020

elleng

(130,948 posts)

5. No, they didn't, looks like didn't even play it @ 6:30 a.m!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:26 PM

Aug 2020

https://weta.org/fm/playlists

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