Tuesday, December 25, 2018

musical Marshall Plan

After his appointment [as Conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic], conflict arose immediately over programming, with Bernstein recalling how “They wanted Bach, Mozart, and Schumann, which is silly.” Bernstein was instead determined to march Mahler back into Vienna as a “second wave of liberation, a musical Marshall Plan.”

- Leonard Bernstein and the Jewish Cultural Ascendancy – PART 2

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