https://van-magazine.com/mag/craig-urquhart/ An independent online classical music magazine Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://van-magazine.com/mag/craig-urquhart/#comment-14720 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 11:16:19 +0000 http://the-bernstein-effect#comment-14720 […] in Paris before embarking on a freelance career that would see her perform with the likes of Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, and Pierre Boulez’s Ensemble intercontemporain. John Cage […]

]]> https://van-magazine.com/mag/craig-urquhart/#comment-11726 Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:35:03 +0000 http://the-bernstein-effect#comment-11726 […] That’s how I earned the money to buy my first stereo, and the first records I bought were the Bernstein Conducting Mahler […]

]]> https://van-magazine.com/mag/craig-urquhart/#comment-11703 Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:29:39 +0000 http://the-bernstein-effect#comment-11703 […] of that fathomless sea. However, a sense of the vastness and profundity in the waters permeated Leonard Bernstein’s rendering of the psychological drama. Instead of forcing the troubled depths forward, he […]

]]> https://van-magazine.com/mag/craig-urquhart/#comment-7732 Thu, 17 Jun 2021 08:54:45 +0000 http://the-bernstein-effect#comment-7732 […] Leonard Bernstein: “Dear Daddy, Daddy dear… Merry Christmas to you, too” from “A Quiet Place” (1983) […]

]]> https://van-magazine.com/mag/craig-urquhart/#comment-7730 Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:11:45 +0000 http://the-bernstein-effect#comment-7730 […] Leonard Bernstein‘s centenary has been particularly healthy for his legacy as a composer. While “West Side Story” has been an uninterrupted success since its premiere in 1957, it also became almost like a mortgage that Bernstein spent the rest of his years paying off with other creative struggles. His compositional talent, which lay in a fluency with eclecticism and a natural feel for melody, was given to him in an era where serious music was by default serial. The works he wrote after leaving the New York Philharmonic in 1969 were regularly panned in the newspapers. […]

]]> https://van-magazine.com/mag/craig-urquhart/#comment-7725 Wed, 16 Jun 2021 10:32:50 +0000 http://the-bernstein-effect#comment-7725 […] of the finale of the Brahms Piano Quintet with a heavily Hebraic lilt.” To the outside world, Bernstein was unapproachable. Inside the club he was just a particularly eccentric […]

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