Ned Rorem in Venice - 12 September, 1954

from The Paris Diary: Hyères and Italy 1954 and 1955, page 161:

In the evening Lenny Bernstein gave a concert with his new fiddle Serenade (built from Plato's Dialogues) played by Isaac Stern.
cite as

Ned Rorem, The Paris Diary: Hyères and Italy 1954 and 1955. In The Paris Diary and The New York Diary 1951-1961 (New York, 1998), p. 161. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1398094869288 accessed: 19 April, 2024

location of experience: Venice

Listeners

Ned Rorem
Critic, essayist, Composer, Diarist […]
1923-

Listening to

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Serenade, after Plato: Symposium
written by Leonard Bernstein
performed by Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein

Experience Information

Date/Time 12 September, 1954
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by iepearson on Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:41:09 +0100