{"id":6584,"date":"2021-10-06T21:20:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T10:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2021-10-06T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T10:20:11","slug":"bernstein-as-a-counterpoint-student-at-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6584","title":{"rendered":"Bernstein as a counterpoint student at Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The composer Harold Shapero, who lived a few doors away from Bernstein in Newton and was a year behind him at Harvard, also noted Bernstein&#8217;s cavalier approach to counterpoint studies.  &#8220;Lenny didn&#8217;t come to class at all.  I was a dutiful little student.  I did my Palestrina stuff and I got an &#8216;A.&#8217;  . . . Lenny showed up around the end of the first term and put a piece up on the piano.  It was some kind of wild chorus, rather ugly and painful . . . . It had nothing to do with sixteenth-century counterpoint.  In typical stentorian Harvard style, Merritt<sup>1<\/sup> said, &#8216;Well, Leonard, this is not exactly what we&#8217;re doing in class,&#8217; and Lenny  took his first and smashed it down and said, &#8216;I like it!&#8217;  I was astonished. . . . It showed the power of conviction that he had about his own music.&#8221;<\/p><cite>(1) Professor Arthur Tillman Merritt<br><br>H. Burton, Leonard Bernstein, London, Faber &amp; Faber Ltd, 2017, pp. 82-83.<br><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The composer Harold Shapero, who lived a few doors away from Bernstein in Newton and was a year behind him at Harvard, also noted Bernstein&#8217;s cavalier approach to counterpoint studies. &#8220;Lenny didn&#8217;t come to class at all. I was a dutiful little student. I did my Palestrina stuff and I got an &#8216;A.&#8217; . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[550],"tags":[529],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composers","tag-bernstein"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6585,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions\/6585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}