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Leonard Bernstein would have been 94 today
August 25, 2012
Posted on 08/25/2012 6:38:13 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Perdogg; DollyCali; EveningStar; Borges; Mr. K; Blondie; altura; mylife; Mama_Bear; Jack Deth; ...
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posted on
08/25/2012 6:44:34 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Mutts for Mitt all agree - Better in the crate than on the plate)
To: EveningStar
Concerning politics I would have agreed with him about little, I suppose. But he was a great musician.
To: EveningStar
I used to have a copy of Life Magazine from the early 50s.
The cover had the picture of “100 American Communists”. It used the term Communist too, not leftist etc.
I recall one was Leonard Bernstein. Before seeing that, I didn’t know anything more about him than he was a conductor.
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posted on
08/25/2012 6:56:18 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: aposiopetic
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posted on
08/25/2012 7:02:22 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Rub some bacon on it.")
To: EveningStar
Google & read Tom Wolfe’s 1970 classic, “Radical Chic and Mau Mauing the Flack Catchers”.
The Bernsteins’ reception & party for the Black Panthers was pure Stockholm Syndrome. Wealthy Manhattan liberals schmoozing with worthless hoodlums who’d have gladly slit all their throats had no parallel until the modern version of dhimmi infidels sucking up to muzzie terrorists who BTW make the Panthers look like pathetic punks.
I used to have some New York Philharmonic LPs with Lenny conducting, but as the libs like to say, the personal is the political and after reading Radical Chic I lost all respect for the once great maestro.
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posted on
08/25/2012 7:04:24 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
(Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind. Deus vult!)
To: EveningStar
Twenty-four years ago today my brother, SIL, spouse and I went to Lenny’s 70th bday party at Tanglewood, MA. We tried to sneak in two infants and they charged us $20/each for lawn tickets for the babies!
To: EveningStar
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posted on
08/25/2012 7:07:42 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: EveningStar
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posted on
08/25/2012 7:24:43 PM PDT
by
Publius
(Leadership starts with getting off the couch.)
To: EveningStar
I don’t care for that Communist’s sparkling interpretation of the classics, and neither did Shostakovich.
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posted on
08/25/2012 7:36:40 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
To: Publius
Nonsense. Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic.
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posted on
08/25/2012 7:38:16 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
To: EveningStar
And Edward M. Kennedy has been burning in Hell for two years now.
To: elcid1970; All
I found an old paperback copy of Wolfe’s ‘Radical Chic...’ ages ago at a used bookstore and still have it. One of his best works, with ‘The Right Stuff’ close behind.
Both need to be re-read every five years or so.
Never much cared for Lenny. The less said about him, the better.
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posted on
08/25/2012 8:04:20 PM PDT
by
Jack Deth
(Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
08/25/2012 8:07:03 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong!)
To: jocon307
I enjoyed both the stage and movie version of Left Side Story. However, Bernstein also gave us the sacrilegious Bernstein Mass (1971).
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posted on
08/25/2012 8:08:16 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Deo Vindice!)
To: Jack Deth
I read Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers when I was in college, and loved it.
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posted on
08/25/2012 8:09:52 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Deo Vindice!)
To: Borges; sitetest
To: elcid1970
Google & read Tom Wolfes 1970 classic, Radical Chic and Mau Mauing the Flack Catchers. The first part of the Wolfe book is linked in my initial post. I remember when Buckley quoted from it in one of his articles.
To: EveningStar
He is 94 today. Just not looking real great.
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posted on
08/25/2012 8:17:09 PM PDT
by
Starstruck
(It's all Obama's fault)
To: EveningStar
As a chorister with Oratorio Society of Washington, I sang the Chichester Psalms some twenty years ago. I always though he was over-rated as a composer - West Side Story was not bad, IMHO - thought he went downhill from there. He was certainly a charismatic conductor. Also, if I recall correctly, a sexual deviant. No reason to mark his birthday as far as I'm concerned.
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
08/25/2012 8:34:37 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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