Jerome Robbins in New York City - 21 January, 1946
from Letter from Jerome Robbins to Leonard Bernstein, 21 Jan 1946, page 194:
Len
It really was a wonderful concert tonight. I’d never heard you really play anything but Fancy [Free] and [Wonderful] Town - & the Bach was quite an exciting experience. Then the Stravinsky was new to me - & God! What an experience. 3 Bravo’s (sic) for that alone. I rode along on the Don Juan nicely anticipating the Variations - & then I sat & chuckled & gurgled & beamed & nodded & emphasized & had a wonderful time. They sounded marvelously - & the only complaint was a little something on the encore of Harold’s dance, trying to picture him keeping up with it. But it sounded … more >>
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Jerome Robbins, Letter from Jerome Robbins to Leonard Bernstein, 21 Jan 1946. In Nigel Simeone (ed.), The Leonard Bernstein Letters (City of New Haven, 2013), p. 194. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1388520306101 accessed: 30 October, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
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Brandenburg Concerto no 5
written by Bach |
performed by New York City Symphony Orchestra |
Don Juan
written by Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, Mozart |
performed by New York City Symphony Orchestra |
Fancy Free
written by Leonard Bernstein |
performed by New York City Symphony Orchestra |
Symphony of Psalms
written by Igor Stravinksy |
performed by New York City Symphony Orchestra |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 21 January, 1946 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
On 21 January 1946, Bernstein conducted the New York City Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, Strauss’s Don Juan, Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no. 5, and Three Variations from Fancy Free.
Originally submitted by Ivan Hewett on Tue, 31 Dec 2013 20:05:06 +0000