Your favourite Bernstein

Started by Maestro267, August 25, 2018, 11:10:46 AM

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Pick one

...the Composer
4 (28.6%)
...the Conductor
7 (50%)
...the Pianist
0 (0%)
...the Educator
2 (14.3%)
(Other)
1 (7.1%)

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Maestro267

August 25, 2018, 11:10:46 AM
Leonard Bernstein (whose centenary falls on the day I post this) is highly regarded in all the professions mentioned above. Which do you enjoy most?

SymphonicAddict

#1
August 25, 2018, 12:58:31 PM
I voted for the conductor. I think he was more successful as a conductor than as a composer. Likewise I enjoy some of his works, albeit I'm not the hugest fan of him.

vandermolen

#2
August 25, 2018, 03:29:10 PM
He was a great conductor but I voted for the composer of the Jeremiah Symphony.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Mirror Image

#3
August 26, 2018, 11:26:42 AM
I voted for conductor, but there are several works of his own that I really enjoy, so I could have easily voted composer as well.

vandermolen

#4
August 27, 2018, 12:14:32 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 26, 2018, 11:26:42 AM
I voted for conductor, but there are several works of his own that I really enjoy, so I could have easily voted composer as well.

I'm looking forward to hearing his Serenade of Plato's Symposium at a concert in London next week.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Roasted Swan

#5
August 27, 2018, 12:25:04 AM
the man who wrote West Side Story will live longer in the memory than any amount of brilliance on the podium.......

Karl Henning

#6
August 27, 2018, 05:06:54 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on August 27, 2018, 12:14:32 AM
I'm looking forward to hearing his Serenade of Plato's Symposium at a concert in London next week.

Splendid!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#7
August 27, 2018, 05:07:50 AM
I voted Other because, he was not one of the four, he was a total package.  He cannot be filleted like this.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

TheGSMoeller

#8
August 27, 2018, 05:36:44 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on August 27, 2018, 05:07:50 AM
I voted Other because....


Model; fur coat-lover; suave motha-f***a.

Karl Henning

#9
August 27, 2018, 06:08:46 AM
Clothes horse  8)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

vandermolen

#10
August 27, 2018, 07:22:06 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on August 27, 2018, 05:06:54 AM
Splendid!

I think with your local orchestra (Boston SO) performing Shostakovich's 4th Symphony.
Can't wait!
:)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).
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