"""Connotations"", a serial-work that was merely politely received. During the intermission Bernstein kissed the cheek of the President's wife Jacqueline Kennedy, a break with protocol that was commented on at the time. In 1961 Bernstein had conducted at President John F. Kennedy's pre-inaugural gala, and he was an occasional guest in the White House. Years later he conducted at the funeral mass in 1968 for President Kennedy's brother Robert Kennedy, featuring the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony. Jackie Kennedy famously wrote to Bernstein after the event: ""When your Mahler started to fill (but that is the wrong word — because"
"for a video tape recording of the Young People's Concerts, when he heard the news that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas. His response to those in attendance was: “We must go on. Life goes on.” However, shortly following this declaration, Bernstein replied, “we can’t go on.” Humphrey Burton wrote: “Bernstein saw Kennedy as a leader with outstanding intellectual gifts and a sympathy for the arts.” Bernstein once said, “Of all the political men that I have ever met, Kennedy was certainly the most moving and compassionate and lovable.” In 1971, Bernstein wrote Mass to celebrate the opening"
"Tribute to John F. Kennedy Tribute to John F. Kennedy is an address given by American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein to the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York on Monday, November 25th, 1963 in response to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; and later reprinted in his book ""Findings"" (Simon & Schuster: New York, NY 1982 ). Words found within the address have been repeated during times of tragedy, including the September 11 attacks, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, 2013 Paris attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing. On Friday, November 22, 1963, Leonard Bernstein was preparing"
"The concept of ""Mass"" derived from three sources: the experience of conducting at Robert F. Kennedy's funeral in 1968 in St Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan; the Beethoven bicentenary in Vienna in 1970; and a small piece ""A Simple Song"" he wrote for Franco Zeffirelli's 1972 film ""Brother Sun, Sister Moon"" before withdrawing from that project after three months during which time he worked with Leonard Cohen. Paul Simon was also approached for music and lyrics for ""Brother Sun, Sister Moon"", but he too declined. However, a quatrain he wrote while considering the commission was later presented to Bernstein for use in"
"Maurice Peress Maurice Peress (March 18, 1930 – December 31, 2017) was an American orchestra conductor, educator and author. After serving as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein beginning in 1961, Peress went on to stand as leader of the orchestra in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1962. In 1970, he also became leader for two years of the Austin Symphony Orchestra. In 1974, he left Texas to take over the Kansas City Philharmonic, where he remained until 1980. He conducted Leonard Bernstein's MASS in 1971, 1973 and 2014. Maurice Peress had also extensively conducted orchestras internationally,"
"performers included the Chicago Children's Choir, Vocality, and the Highland Park High School Marching Band. The production's creative director was Kevin Newbury. Although several performances were televised, none are available commercially. There is one DVD version: Mass (Bernstein) Mass (formally: MASS: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers) is a musical theatre work composed by Leonard Bernstein with text by Bernstein and additional text and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy, it premiered on September 8, 1971, conducted by Maurice Peress and choreographed by Alvin Ailey. The performance was part of the opening of the John F."
"others. Perhaps the harshest criticism he received from some critics in his lifetime though was directed at works like his ""Kaddish Symphony"", his ""MASS"" and the opera ""A Quiet Place"", where they found the underlying message of the piece or the text as either mildly embarrassing, clichéd or offensive. Despite this, all these pieces have been performed, discussed and reconsidered since his death. Bernstein's works were performed several times for Pope John Paul II, including at World Youth Day in Denver on August 14, 1993 (excerpts from ""MASS""), and at the Papal Concert to Commemorate the Shoah on April 7,"
"of the John F. Kennedy Center. On November 25, 1963, at Madison Square Gardens, the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York presented its 25th annual “Night of Stars”. Vice-President Lyndon Johnson had been slated to give the address, but due to the assassination of President Kennedy just 3 days prior, Johnson cancelled. The event became a vigil for those gathered in remembrance of the slain leader. In his stead, Bernstein spoke of shock, shame and despair, ignorance and hatred, and “rage at the senselessness of the crime.” Bernstein wrote the address just before being commissioned to compose his famous"
"Chichester Psalms. In his book ""Findings"", Bernstein printed the entire address entitled: “Tribute to John F. Kennedy” in 1982. Since then, the extracted words: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly, than ever before” have inspired, been reprinted, graffitied, spoken, blogged, sung and dedicated to victims of unspeakable tragedies. Even Jeff Richman, Green-Wood Cemetery’s historian in Brooklyn, New York (where Bernstein is buried), quoted the words when interviewed by The New York Times. Following the death of Freddie Gray in 2015, Baltimore, Maryland enforced a city-wide curfew; which in turn closed"
"Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive worldwide acclaim. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was ""one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."" His fame derived from his long tenure as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, from his conducting of concerts with most of the world's leading orchestras, and from his music for ""West Side Story"", ""Peter Pan"", ""Candide"", ""Wonderful Town"","
"Marion Bernstein Marion Bernstein (1846–1906) was a radical feminist poet who lived most of her life in Glasgow. Bernstein was born in London in 1846 to Theodore Bernstein, a Jewish emigrant from Germany and Lydia Pulsford, an Anglican mother from Marylebone. She suffered from debilitating infirmity in her childhood, and suffered illness throughout her adult life. By 1874 she had moved to Glasgow with her widowed mother, her brother, her married sister, and her brother-in-law. In Glasgow she supported herself by teaching piano lessons. Bernstein is commonly remembered for writing a number of radically feminist poems, for example 'The Wretched"
"Opening Prayer Opening Prayer is a composition for baritone and orchestra, written for the reopening of Carnegie Hall in 1986. Composer Leonard Bernstein set a Hebrew biblical benediction, which concludes a traditional morning service. He derived the music from an earlier piano composition, and later included it in his Jubilee Games in 1988, and in their expansion to the Concerto for Orchestra in 1989, calling the movement now Benediction. Leonard Bernstein had a close connection to Carnegie Hall. He made his debut there on 14 November 1943, stepping in for Bruno Walter on short notice. As the orchestra's first American"
"Celebration in Vienna"", won an Emmy and was issued on DVD in 2005. In the summer of 1970, during the Festival of London, he conducted Verdi's Requiem Mass in St. Paul's Cathedral, with the London Symphony Orchestra. Bernstein's major compositions during the 1970s were his ""Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers""; his score for the ballet ""Dybbuk""; his orchestral vocal work """"; and his U.S. bicentenary musical ""1600 Pennsylvania Avenue"" written with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner which was his first real theatrical flop, and last original Broadway show. The world premiere of Bernstein's ""MASS"" took place"
"in 1971""."" About the work, Ailey commented, ""If there can be a Bernstein Mass, a Mozart Mass, a Bach Mass, why can't there be ""Mary Lou's Mass""?"" Williams performed the revision of ""Mary Lou's Mass,"" her most acclaimed work, on ""The Dick Cavett Show"" in 1971. She wrote and performed religious jazz music such as ""Black Christ of the Andes"" (1963), a hymn in honor of the St. Martin de Porres; two short works, ""Anima Christi"" and ""Praise the Lord"". In this period, Williams put much effort into working with youth choirs to perform her works, including mass at St."
"David Charles Abell David Charles Abell (born 1958) is an American orchestral conductor active in symphonic music, opera and musical theatre. Known for his television appearances worldwide as conductor of the ""Les Misérables"" and Anniversary concerts, he is recognised as an authoritative interpreter of the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and maintains an active international opera career. Born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Abell was raised in the Philadelphia and Chicago areas, studying viola, piano, organ, trumpet and voice. As a member of the Berkshire Boy Choir, he sang in the 1971 world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass at the John F."
"celebrated by Pope John Paul II in Chicago’s Grant Park (Chicago). This Mass was attended by 1.5 million people. During the Pope’s visit in America at this time, Peloquin’s music was performed at every Mass on the Pope's itinerary. 1980 – Dave Brubeck selected Peloquin and the Peloquin Chorale to premier his Mass To Hope! A Celebration, (formally known as To Hope! A Mass for a New Decade) in celebration of his conversion to Catholicism. Peloquin died February 27, 1997 at the Bethany Home in Providence, Rhode Island from the effects of a stroke he suffered on February 12 of"
"1994, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (""Chichester Psalms"" and Symphony No. 3, ""Kaddish"" [excerpt]) in the Sala Nervi at the Vatican. Both performances were conducted by Gilbert Levine. Although he taught conducting, Bernstein was not a teacher of composition as such, and he has no direct composing heirs. Perhaps the closest are composers like John Adams, who from the 1970s onwards indirectly adopted elements of his eclectic, theatrical style. Leonard Bernstein is also a member of both the American Theater Hall of Fame, and the Television Hall of Fame. In 2015 he was inducted into the Legacy Walk. Leonard Bernstein"
"University of California at Berkeley commissioned American neoclassical composer Roger Sessions (1896–1985) to set the poem as a cantata to commemorate their centennial anniversary in 1964. Sessions did not finish composing the work until the 1970s, dedicating it to the memories of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and political figure Robert F. Kennedy, both assassinated in 1968. Sessions first became acquainted with ""Leaves of Grass"" in 1921 and began setting the poem as a reaction to the death of his friend, George Bartlett, although none of the sketches from that early attempt survive. He returned to the text"
"Missa Brevis (Bernstein) The Missa Brevis by Leonard Bernstein is a musical setting of parts of the mass ordinary in Latin for a mixed a cappella choir with countertenor solo and percussion. It is also Bernstein's last complete choral work, due to his death a year after its completion in 1989. The origin of the piece lies in the incidental choral music that Bernstein composed for an adaptation of Jean Anouilh's play ""The Lark"", directed by Lillian Hellman in 1955. The play's plot covers the events surrounding Joan of Arc and her trial. This led Bernstein to compose the choral"
"to host ""Saturday Night Live"" in the show's first season (1975–76). Chase was seated next to Bernstein at a birthday party for Kurt Vonnegut and made the request in person. However, the pitch involved a Bernstein-conducted SNL version of ""West Side Story"", and Bernstein was uninterested. In October 1976, Leonard Bernstein led the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and legendary pianist Claudio Arrau in an Amnesty International Benefit Concert in Munich. To honor his late wife and to continue their joint struggle for human rights, Leonard Bernstein established the Felicia Montealegre Bernstein Fund of Amnesty International USA to provide support for"
"death. Kaddish (poem) ""Kaddish"" also known as ""Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894–1956)"" is a poem by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg about his mother Naomi and her death on June 9, 1956. Ginsberg began writing the poem in the Beat Hotel in Paris in December 1957, completing it in New York in 1959. It was the lead poem in the collection ""Kaddish and Other Poems"" (1961). It is considered one of Ginsberg's finest poems, with some scholars holding that it is his best poem. The ""Kaddish"" of the title refers to the mourner's prayer or blessing in Judaism. This long poem"
"Symphony"" dedicated to the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy and the ""Chichester Psalms"", which he produced during a sabbatical year he took from the Philharmonic in 1965 to concentrate on composition. To make more time to composition was probably a major factor in his decision to step down as Music Director of the Philharmonic in 1969, and to never again accept such a position elsewhere. After stepping down from the New York Philharmonic, Bernstein continued to appear with them in most years until his death, and he toured with them to Europe in 1976 and to Asia in 1979."
"for the first performance in the United States in which he conducted the orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall in 1988. When he expanded ""Jubilee Games"" further in 1989, then called Concerto for Orchestra, he added a different second movement and moved ""Opening Prayer"", now called Benediction, to the final position of four: Opening Prayer Opening Prayer is a composition for baritone and orchestra, written for the reopening of Carnegie Hall in 1986. Composer Leonard Bernstein set a Hebrew biblical benediction, which concludes a traditional morning service. He derived the music from an earlier piano composition, and later included it in"
"Sanctus was used in Werner Herzog's film ""Nosferatu the Vampyre"" (1979). St. Cecilia Mass St. Cecilia Mass is the common name of a solemn mass in G major by Charles Gounod, composed in 1855 and scored for three soloists, mixed choir, orchestra and organ. The official name is """", in homage of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. The work was assigned CG 56 in the catalogue of the composer's works. The first work by Gounod performed in public was on 1 May 1841 a mass at the church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. The St. Cecilia Mass"
"Kaddish (poem) ""Kaddish"" also known as ""Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894–1956)"" is a poem by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg about his mother Naomi and her death on June 9, 1956. Ginsberg began writing the poem in the Beat Hotel in Paris in December 1957, completing it in New York in 1959. It was the lead poem in the collection ""Kaddish and Other Poems"" (1961). It is considered one of Ginsberg's finest poems, with some scholars holding that it is his best poem. The ""Kaddish"" of the title refers to the mourner's prayer or blessing in Judaism. This long poem was"
"""alighting"" in a single clear note. An altar server, who was absent during the conflict, then sings a hymn of praise to God, ""Sing God a Secret Song"". This restores the faith of the three choirs, who join the altar server, one by one, in his hymn of praise. They tell the Celebrant ""Pax tecum"" (Peace be with you), and end with a hymn asking for God's blessing. The last words of the piece are: ""The Mass is ended; go in peace."" Bernstein scored ""Mass"" for a large orchestra and choir, and also included an onstage groups (street musicians). Bernstein"
"a practicing Catholic, often worshipped. Cardinal Cushing was a close friend of the family who had witnessed and blessed the marriage of Senator Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953. He had also baptized two of their children, given the invocation at President Kennedy's inauguration, and officiated at the recent funeral of their infant son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy. At the request of the First Lady, the Requiem Mass was a Pontifical Requiem Low Mass—that is, a simplified version of the Mass, with the Mass recited or spoken and not sung. Two months later, Cardinal Cushing offered a pontifical Solemn High Requiem"
"his instructions, Bernstein indicated that the percussion should be played by members of the street musicians. The FBI kept a file on Bernstein because of his leftist views. In the summer of 1971, the Bureau warned the White House that the Latin text of ""Mass"" might contain anti-war messages, which could cause embarrassment to President Nixon should he attend the premiere and applaud politely. Rumors of such a plot by Bernstein were leaked to the press. According to Gordon Liddy, White House counsel John Dean stated that the work was ""definitely anti-war and anti-establishment, etc."" Nixon did not ultimately attend"
"Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra is a 1977 song cycle by Leonard Bernstein. The cycle consists of 12 settings of 13 American poems, performed by six singers in solos, duets, a trio and three sextets. The work was intended as a tribute to the 1976 American Bicentennial but was not finished in time. Its first complete performance was given by the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer on October 11, 1977, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., although some portions were"
"Harry Bernstein Harry Louis Bernstein (May 30, 1910 – June 3, 2011) was a British-born American writer. Bernstein lived in Brick Township, New Jersey. He died at the age of 101, on June 3, 2011. Before his retirement at age 62, Bernstein worked for movie production companies as a script reader and as a magazine editor for trade magazines. He wrote freelance articles for such publications as ""Popular Mechanics"", ""Family Circle"" and ""Newsweek"". ""The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers"", his first-published book, dealt with a number of topics, including with his long-suffering mother Ada's struggle to feed"
"Ann Birstein Ann Judith Birstein (May 27, 1927 – May 24, 2017) was an American Fulbright Scholar, novelist, memoirist, essayist, film critic, blogger, and professor. She was born in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City and was the daughter of the notable Rabbi Bernard Birstein of the Actor's Temple. She attended Queens College and published her first novel, ""Star of Glass"", in 1950 at the age of twenty three. She was married to and later divorced the literary critic Alfred Kazin, with whom she had a daughter, Cathrael Kazin. Birstein was also stepmother to professor and author Michael"
"9, 1990, and died at his apartment at The Dakota of a heart attack five days later, brought on by mesothelioma. He was 72 years old. A longtime heavy smoker, he had emphysema from his mid-50s. On the day of his funeral procession through the streets of Manhattan, construction workers removed their hats and waved, calling out ""Goodbye, Lenny."" Bernstein is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, next to his wife and with a copy of Mahler's Fifth Symphony lying across his heart. On August 25, 2018 (his 100th birthday), he was honored with a Google Doodle. While Bernstein"
"remembered through this memorial. The memorial also includes the names of ten additional victims who had been former residents of Westchester. There were actually 110 residents of Westchester; one was unintentionally omitted. The design remained unchanged. The person's name was added to the stones. The memorial was dedicated on September 11, 2006, five years after the attacks. It included a recitation of all the names of the victims remembered by this memorial, music performed by the Mayor's Interfaith Community Choir of Mount Vernon, and a special performance of the 2002 song, ""The Rising,"" created by Bruce Springsteen. The ""Faith and"