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Speaking of Music

By Leonard Bernstein · The Atlantic · December 1957

#19 All Time·#1 in 1957·#1 in Music

Speaking of Music

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"“Can anyone explain in mere prose the wonder of one note following or coinciding with another so that we feel that it is exactly how those notes had to be? Of course not.”"

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