Poll
Question:
Pick one
Option 1: ...the Composer
votes: 4
Option 2: ...the Conductor
votes: 7
Option 3: ...the Pianist
votes: 0
Option 4: ...the Educator
votes: 2
Option 5: (Other)
votes: 1
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?
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.
He was a great conductor but I voted for the composer of the Jeremiah Symphony.
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.
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.
the man who wrote West Side Story will live longer in the memory than any amount of brilliance on the podium.......
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!
I voted Other because, he was not one of the four, he was a total package. He cannot be filleted like this.
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.
(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/08/26/arts/26BERNSTEIN-momentsa/26BERNSTEIN-ESSAY-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Clothes horse 8)
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!
:)