„Jestem jak Mahler, są we mnie dwaj ludzie – dyrygent i kompozytor.”
Źródło: Janusz Ekiert, Czy wiesz? Zagadki muzyczne, Warszawa 1995, wyd. Alfa, s. 64.
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Leonard Bernstein: Cytaty po angielsku
"What Makes Opera Grand?", Vogue (December 1958)
Leonard Bernstein, statement of 1953, quoted in A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit (2006) by Cyrus M. Copeland, p. 190
“So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?”
Leonard Bernstein The Unanswered Question
The Unanswered Question (1976)
Kontekst: Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?
Leonard Bernstein: The Gift Of Music
Of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
"Why Don't You Run Upstairs and Write a Nice Gershwin Tune?", in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1955.
The Cambridge Companion to Conducting p. 16.
Leonard Bernstein książka The Joy of Music
Źródło: The Joy of Music
“I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.”
Źródło: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
“To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation.”
Leonard Bernstein, "Leonard Bernstein discusses material & structure in Bach's St. Matthew Passion," Bernstein Century - Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Nypo, Et Al (1999) (at 6:31)
“Callas? She was pure electricity.”
As quoted in Callas: The Art and the Life (1974) by John Ardoin
