[78-L] Bernstein's Rhapsody

[David Lennick]

And yet he wrote 3 great jazzy musicals.

His low point, for me, is the DGG recording of Fancy Free where "Big Stuff", 
intended as a prelude to be sung a la Billie Holiday, is instead placed at the 
end and sung by Lenny hisself, doing his best imitation of Leonard Cohen on 
valium and gargling with Drano (was he trying to out-awful Tom Waits's version 
of "Somewhere"?).

dl

On 7/7/2013 11:14 AM, Mike Harkin wrote:
> Hindemith didn't steal from Weber, he acknowledged in the title of his work that
> he had used Weber's theme as the basis of his piece.  Der Lennerl does not....
> Nor is it a la jazz, where a soloist will throw a reference to another tune in just to
> show that he can do it, or turn a solo into a quodlibet by throwing in an extended
> riff on  second tune whilst the guy riffing the title tune is doing his thing therewith.
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> Mike in Plovdiv
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>   From: Don Cox<doncox at enterprise.net>
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 3:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Bernstein's Rhapsody
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> On 07/07/2013, David Lennick wrote:
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>> 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
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> If Hindemith can steal from Weber, why can't Bernstein steal from
> Hindemith ?
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> Regards