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Two Love Songs (1949

In 1949, Bernstein set a pair of texts by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke: Extinguish My Eyes and When My Soul Touches Yours.

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The Leonard Bernstein Office (LBO) sustains and strengthens Leonard Bernstein’s legacy by inspiring global engagement with his work as a composer, conductor, educator, and humanitarian. Through licensing, promotion, music editing, and publishing, the LBO strives to communicate his lifelong devotion to the transformative power and joy of music.

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Thus Spake Leonard Bernstein:

"I believe in people. I feel, love, need, and respect people above all else, including the arts, natural scenery, organized piety, or nationalistic superstructures...

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change. In this he is divine. Armed with reason, he can see two sides and choose: he can be divinely wrong. I believe in man's right to be wrong. Out of this right he has built, laboriously and lovingly, something we reverently call democracy, He has done it the hard way, and continues to do it the hard way - by reason, by choosing, by error and rectification."

Leonard Bernstein
This I Believe, January 1954

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