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).
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Thus Spake Leonard Bernstein:
"We must never forget that music is movement, always going somewhere, shifting and changing, and flowing, from one note to another; and that movement can tell us more about the way we feel than a million words can."
-Leonard Bernstein
"What Does Music Mean?" (1958)