Like every Friday evening, young Lenny accompanies his father to the Mishkan Tefila temple (in the city of Boston in the United States). The rabbi's speeches, the organ Music and the voices of the choirs impressed him; he will never forget them. But at home, it's the American songs on the radio that make him sing and dance in his parents' living room! Throughout his childhood, Leonard Bernstein lived between two worlds, two cultures, two religions. Music finally imposes itself on him thanks to the piano given by his aunt Clara, he can then create his own world.
However, he must struggle against the authority of the father, his refusals and his fears for his son, but Bernstein constructs his journey. Pianist, composer, conductor, teacher:
who is he really? Does he know?
Leonard Bernstein is everything! He is music, all music!
Leonard Bernstein is all of humanity! He will never stop carrying it within him and passing it on to us.
There's no stopping the dad from West Side Story!
Marianne Vourch is a producer Music Stories on France Musicshe is the author of several CD-books for young people, a musical speaker, creator of Wednesday concerts.
She initiated on France Music the podcast collection The diary of… which was a great success. THE Intime journal by Maria Callasread by Carole Bouquet, Rudolf Nureyev's Diary read by Lambert Wilson, The Secret Diary of Nina Simone read by Claudia Tagbo, The Intimate Diary of Edith Piafread by Josiane Balasko as well as The diary of Johann Sebastian Bach read by Denis Podalydès, member of the Comédie-Française, The diary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart read by Nicolas Vaude and The Intimate Diary of Frédéric Chopin read by Clément Hervieu-Léger also published by Villanelle, have to date totaled 2 million listens on demand.
Leonard Bernstein's diary is also a series of podcasts read by Charles Berling, and available from November 28 on francemusique.fr and on l’application Radio France.
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