Featured Work
Symphony No. 3: Kaddish (1963)
In his Kaddish Symphony, Leonard Bernstein exploits the dualistic overtones of the prayer: its popular connotation as a kind of requiem, and its celebration of life ( i.e. creation). He does this both in his speaker's text and in his music.
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Thus Spake Leonard Bernstein:
"The truth is that all great composers free music — not from the bondage of other composers, but from routine, from mediocrity, from second-rate, dusty tradition; in other words, a great composer frees music from the predictable."
Leonard Bernstein
Young People’s Concert – “Forever Beethoven”, 1968