Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Tuesday, July 28, 2009


There is something enviable about the utter lack of inhibition with which Leonard Bernstein carries on. His Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish) is a piece, in part, of such unashamed vulgarity, and it is so strongly derivative, that the hearing of it becomes as much as anything a strain on one's credulity. Can the narrator really have said "Do I have your attention, Majestic Father?" and did she declare to her God, "We are in this thing together now, you and I"?

Can anyone forty-five years later write music criticism remotely like this?

(Via AhtsJournal)

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