Meandering . . .

Today is the birthday of Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990), conductor, composer, music lecturer, pianist and author. He is best remembered as the longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic and writing the music for West Side Story.

"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein

"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world." - Leonard Bernstein

"Any great work of art ... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air." - Leonard Bernstein

"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing." - Leonard Bernstein

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." - Leonard Bernstein

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