[78-L] Bernstein's Rhapsody

[David Lennick]

On 7/7/2013 8:56 AM, Don Cox wrote:
> On 07/07/2013, David Lennick wrote:
>
>> Don't get me started on that thief already. Listen to "Fancy Free" and
>> "On the Town" where he's stolen the theme from the first movement of
>> Dohnanyi's Serenade in C, as well as a nice chunk of Hindemith's Weber
>> Variations (which the PSONY premiered at a time when he was probably
>> backstage scribbling furiously).
>> dl
>>
> If Hindemith can steal from Weber, why can't Bernstein steal from
> Hindemith ?
>
> Regards

Ah, but Lenny didn't call his ballet "Three Dances from Fancy Free, one of them 
based on a motif from Hindemith's Variations on a theme by Carl Maria von 
Weber". the Jermiah Symphony is equally derivative (lots of Strauss and 
Shostakovich).

dl