[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Bernstein loved jazz and it pops up everywhere in his music.\u00a0 According to the New York Performing Arts Library’s Bernstein exhibit, these are some of the songs he listened to on the radio as a child.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AA0Web13beA”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ng8QDwkKZsU”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]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[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1514857116277{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]\u201cJazz was everybody\u2019s music. Everybody danced the fox trot and knew how to sing \u201cAlexander\u2019s Ragtime Band\u201d whether he came from Texas, North Dakota or South Carolina.\u201d\u00a0 (Young People’s Concerts, pg. 40 )<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing that makes jazz rhythms so special is something called syncopation<\/em>, which means getting an accent where you don\u2019t expect it \u2013 or getting a strong beat where a weak beat should be.\u201d (Young People’s Concerts, pg. 44)<\/p>\n In an October 1955 telecast about the world of jazz, Bernstein says he loves jazz \u201cfor its humor. It \u201cfools around\u201d with notes, so to speak and has fun with them. It is, therefore, entertainment in the truest sense.\u201d He also says he loves when jazz musicians improvise simultaneously. “Neither one knows exactly what the other is going to do; but they listen to each other, and pick up phrases from each other, and sort of talk together.\u201d(The Joy of Music)\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s a moment in the Alcibiades, when Bernstein writes out what sounds like an improv between the violin and the solo upright double bass. It could be right out of a jazz club!\u00a0 (start around 6:20-6:41 in the recording below)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Leonard Bernstein: What is jazz?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jqY5UFQxIl0″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZvcGVuLnNwb3RpZnkuY29tJTJGZW1iZWQlMkZ0cmFjayUyRjZPeFg5VVJFN2xZdmFrS2VVbTAyaTAlMjIlMjB3aWR0aCUzRCUyMjEwMCUyNSUyMiUyMGhlaWdodCUzRCUyMjgwJTIyJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3d0cmFuc3BhcmVuY3klM0QlMjJ0cnVlJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Bernstein loved jazz and it pops up everywhere in his music.\u00a0 According to the New York Performing Arts Library’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/85"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sharonroffman.com\/bernsteinserenade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}