V.T.C.M.A. - 6
“The trouble with you and me, Ned, is that we want everyone in the world to personally love us, and of course that’s impossible: you just don’t meet everyone in the world.”
-Leonard Bernstein, to composer Ned Rorem.
Presenting a brief clip from Bernstein’s acclaimed Norton Lectures at Harvard, 1973-74! A definite must-see for anyone interested in music, and the question of its existence as a universal language capable of conveying the metaphorics of human existence.
(You can get the book, too, Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard, here!)
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