Comments on: Music: 10 Bernstein on What Makes American Music American http://animationresources.org/?p=1700 Provides resorces for self-study for animation professionals, students, educators and researchers. Thu, 16 May 2013 02:45:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nate Whilk http://animationresources.org/?p=1700#comment-8746 Nate Whilk Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:32:59 +0000 http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=1700#comment-8746 Before the Young People’s Concerts, Bernstein did some shows explaining classical music on Omnibus, the Sunday A.M. program then hosted by Alistair Cooke. One December they needed an idea and Cooke proposed the obvious one–a show on Handel’s “Messiah”. Bernstein said, “You know something? I don’t know it.” !!! But Bernstein took it up and pronounced it “a sublime work”.

Cooke recounted this in December 2001 in one of his “Letters from America”. A book of them is in Google Books, but only snippets of this letter are present–fortunately, the ones relating this.

Transcripts of 7 of Bernstein’s Omnibus shows are in the book, “The Joy of Music”.

]]> By: Eric Noble http://animationresources.org/?p=1700#comment-8745 Eric Noble Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:18:45 +0000 http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=1700#comment-8745 The key word you use is “celebrate”. The problem is that people point out differences in different groups of people with a sense of scorn. People are trying to combat that. Unfortunately, they’ve thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Let us rejoice in our differences, but still remember our similarities as human beings. The basic structure of all civilizations is the same, but we must marvel at how different the outcomes and outgrowths have been.

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