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1960s, I wonder if he knew he
was going to get six Hebrew
psalms set for mixed choir, boy
soloist and orchestra packaged
into three characteristically
eclectic movements.
Movement I, an amalgam of
Psalms 108 and 100, may sound
a bit like Hindemith at the out-
set, but by the time we get to
Bo-u sha'rav b'todah (Enter his
gates with thanks), the liturgy
suddenly smacks of the "Mam-
bo" sequence from West Side

Story.
Movement II juxtaposes a
sweetly melodic version of the
23rd Psalm (sung by the boy
alto, with a tongue-twisting La
Ma Rag'shu Goyim (Why do the
nations rage) from Psalm No. 2.
After the emphatic disso-
nances that open the third
movement, the composer of
"Somewhere" and "One Hand
One Heart" is at it again melod
ically with lush, lyrical treat-
ment of the final two psalms.
Not all commentators ap-
proved of the final movement,
by the way. "Its idiom recalls
the most angelic passages in the
Faure Requiem," wrote the crit-
ic Alfred Frankenstein. "But the
wings of these angels are con-
fected of whipped cream."
No matter. A little whipped
cream goes well with desert is-
lands. And if nothing else, I can
wile away my lonely hours prac-
ticing to sing U l'umim yichgu
gerik at the 200 miles-per-hour
Lenny demands!
Recommended: The best
interpreter of Bernstein's
music is — no surprise here
— Bernstein himself. He
recorded Chichester twice;
once for Deutsche Gram-
mophon and once way back
in 1965 for Columbia. Sony
has released that earlier
New York Philharmonic
performance on a disc titled
"Leonard Bernstein — A
Tribute," which also con-
tains the Symphonic Dances
from West Side Story, Gersh-
win's "Rhapsody in Blue"
with Lenny himself at the
piano, and brief excerpts of
Mahler and Ives, two com-
posers that Bernstein al-
most singlehandedly
brought to the attention of
both the public and poster-
ity. ❑

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