Evolution of the Symphony: National Schools and Evolving Narratives
Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn, and Schumann
"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
— Leonard Bernstein, in response to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Spoken at a fundraiser for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Madison Square Garden on November 25, 1963, just three days after Kenned…