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Leonard Bernstein<\/a>, a great American composer, was born in 1918 near Boston and died in 1990 in New York.\u00a0 August 25, 2018 would have been his 100th birthday.\u00a0 In 1954, he wrote a piece for violin solo, string orchestra, harp and percussion called the\u00a0Serenade <\/em>based on Plato’s Symposium.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Plato’s Symposium<\/em> is one of the earliest books devoted to the subject of love.\u00a0\u00a0The first time I heard the Serenade\u00a0<\/em>I didn\u2019t love it, but that’s quite normal for me — I need time to get to know something before I can leap to loving it.\u00a0\u00a0 Now, having studied and lived with it for a little while, I think it\u2019s one of the most brilliant pieces for violin and orchestra.\u00a0 So I wanted to make this website to help you get there faster.\u00a0 I hope you’ll explore the site, listen and learn about Bernstein and come to love this piece as much as I do.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0–Sharon\u00a0 (p.s. to use this site most effectively and be able to listen to the embedded recordings, download Spotify<\/a>)[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z3GXrUuCpZw” el_width=”50″ align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] An exploration of Leonard Bernstein’s\u00a0Serenade for Violin and Orchestra (after Plato’s Symposium) Leonard Bernstein, a great American composer, was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}