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- From: Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
- Subject: Re: Greatest Conductors: Why?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:47:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <18798@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- > Rob Holzel writes:
- > [Bernstein] seemed to enjoy an amazing renaissance toward the end of his
- > life.
- > Perhaps as he felt the years ebbing away, he felt free to break away
- > from the commonplace and venture into uncharted depths. Perhaps, too,
- > (like I read somewhere) his last years found him accepting himself with
- > more honesty and clarity than ever before, leading to insights in other
- > arenas. How generous of him to share this bounty with us through the
- > music he loved most. What a wonderful legacy!
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- I've always liked Leonard Bernstein. When I was a kid growing up in the late
- 50's and 60's, I was fascinated by his TV programs which took music out of
- the stuffy concert hall and into the living rooms of "average folks". (An
- added bit of trivia ... my mother was an elevator operator in Vancouver in
- the 1940's, and when Bernstein came to town and stayed in the hotel where she
- worked, she took him up in her elevator once!) Bernstein always represented a
- youthful approach to music, even when he got on in age. I was very sad when
- he died (only a couple of weeks after he retired)... I always had this maxim
- in my head that "when Leonard Bernstein dies, that means I'm getting old".
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