"Music and silence combine strongly because music
is done with silence, and silence is full of music."
AUTHOR: Marcel Marceau
"The energy in silence is the movement in music."
COMPOSER
BERNSTEIN
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Chichester Cathedral in England
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CHICHESTER PSALMS (1965)
Leonard Bernstein, Conductor
Leonard Bernstein, Conductor
Poznan Philharmonic
Boys and Men's Choir of the Poznan Philharmonic
Boys and Men's Choir of the Poznan Philharmonic
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CHICHESTER PSALMS (1965)
(With Text)
Leonard Bernstein, Conductor
Israel Philarmonic Orchestra
Soloist from the Vienna Boys' Choir
Wiener Jeunesse-Chor
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| The Nativity of Christ a stained glass window Lady Chapel, Chichester Cathedral by Clayton & Bell (1877) |
00:06 I. Psalm 108 (verse 2); Psalm 100
03:43 II. Psalm 23; Psalm 2 (verses 1-4)
09:24 III. Psalm 131; Psalm 133 (verse 1)
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| Chagall Window |
Excerpt From:
Leonard Bernstein wrote his Chichester Psalms
in response to a commission in 1965 from the
Dean of Chichester Cathedral
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| http://enyeszpont.blog.hu/2013/10/11/a_chichesteri_kaplan |
in Sussex, England
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for an annual choral festival there. Forgoing
texts in Latin or English, he chose to set a
selection of psalms in the original Hebrew,
with music reflecting Jewish
origins as well.
origins as well.
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This work was the main result of a year-long
sabbatical from the directorship of the New
York Philharmonic taken for the express
purpose of exploring new compositional
idioms. But he later wrote (in 1977, quoted
from Joan Peyser's 1987 biography):
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| http://www.leonardbernstein.com/works_chichester_psalms.htm |
"……In the course of that year I made many
experiments because I had the luxury of a
whole year to do nothing but experiment.
And part of my experimentation was to try –
it was the only time in my life I tried to write
a specific kind of music – to try to write some
pieces which, shall we say, were less old
fashioned. And I wrote a lot and a lot of it
was very good, and I threw it all away.
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| A Poem by Bernstein About Writing Chichester Psalms |
And what I came out with at the end of the year
was a piece called Chichester Psalms, which
is simple and tonal and tuneful and as pure
'B Flat' as any piece you can think of. I don't
mean that it was all in B-Flat but I'm sure you
get my point. Because that was what I
honestly wished to write."
