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Works Chorus & Orchestra Chichester Psalms (1965) Overview. “Commissioned by the Very Rev. Walter Hussey, Dean of Chichester Cathedral, Sussex, for its 1965 Festival, and dedicated, with gratitude, to Cyril Solomon” In 1965, Leonard Bernstein took a sabbatical from his post as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic.
The Chichester Psalms sets to music the complete texts of Psalms 100, 23, and 131, together with a few verses from Psalms 108, 2, and 133. The first movement begins in a fearsomely commanding mood with the second verse of Psalm 108: Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn.
Jul 13, 2016 · CBS Sunday Morning. 554K views 4 months ago. Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms - I. Psalm 108 (Verse 2) and 100 (entire) Leonard Bernstein, conductor Israel Philharmonic Wiener Jeunesse-Chor...
BSO. Work. Chichester Psalms. Composer. Leonard Bernstein. Setting Psalms and parts of Psalms in Hebrew, Bernstein relied on his theatrical instincts in creating these dramatic and immediately impactful settings. Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on August 25, 1918, grew up in Boston, and died in New York on October 14, 1990.
Sep 29, 2014 · Bernstein: Chichester Psalms - YouTube. Scherzo Music. 6.57K subscribers. Subscribed. 400. 61K views 9 years ago. Bernstein: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Jeunesse-Chor, Soloist of...
These Psalms are a simple and modest affair. Tonal and tuneful and somewhat square, Certain to sicken a stout John Cager, With its tonics and triads in B-flat Major. Of the Chichester premiere itself, he noted: July: To Chichester, en famille, to hear My Psalms in the place for which they were written. Smitten... In Chichester I heard angels sing.
May 30, 2014 · Bernstein: Chichester Psalms. In 1964, Leonard Bernstein was commissioned by the Cathedrals of Chichester and Salisbury to compose a setting from the book of Psalms. The result was his...
