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From: thode@nprdc.navy.mil (Walt Thode)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: Leonard Bernstein
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Date: 22 Oct 90 20:44:58 GMT
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Reply-To: thode@nprdc.navy.mil (Walt Thode)
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I didn't get to see the "Young People's Concerts" although unfortunately
not because I'm too young, but because they weren't shown where I grew
up.  However, some of them have been recorded and described in books.
My own favorite (which I'd love to see sometime) was the "What is Jazz"
edition, which was recorded by Columbia.  The part I remember, similar
to Gregory Taylor's memory, was where LB illustrates the iambic
pentameter of the classic blues by comparing it to Shakespeare, and then
breaks into a blues vocal using some of the lines from MacBeth:
  "I will not be afraid of death and bane
   Till Burnham Forest comes to Dunsinane."
I only got to hear it on record, but my reaction to it was similar to
Gregory's to LB doing the Kinks' music.

LB will be missed!

--Walt Thode   Internet:  thode@nprdc.navy.mil
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