MEMBERS OF NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, LEONARD BERNSTEIN
aus: Gustav Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 5
8. IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam
Mitglieder der New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (cond)
Live, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, NY, Begräbnisfeier für Robert „Bobby“ Kennedy, 8. Juni 1968
von: Leonard Bernstein Edition: The Vocal Works (Sony Classical, 56 [+2] CDs, 2018)
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Jacqueline Kennedy schrieb nach der Zeremonie einen Brief an Bernstein, den Alex Ross die „thank-you note of the century“ nannte:
Jacqueline Kennedy
When your Mahler started to fill (but that is the wrong word – because it was more this sensitive trembling) the Cathedral today – I thought it the most beautiful music I had ever heard. I am so glad I didn’t know it – it was this strange music of all the gods who were crying. And then – if only you could have seen it – it was the time when Ethel had thought of the most touching thing – having the littlest nephews and nieces, small children, before that terrifying array of Cardinals and gold and Gothic vaults, carry all the little vessels for Communion up to the high altar, so that they could have some part in the farewell to the uncle they all loved so much. They were so vulnerable – and your music was everything in my heart, of peace and pain and such drowning beauty. You could just close your eyes and be lost in it forever …
Quelle: https://bernstein.classical.org/features/june-1968-remembering-robert-f-kennedy/
Die Box, der die Aufnahme entnommen ist (auf dem Cover oben fehlt der Hinweis auf „Symphony No. 5, Adagietto“, weil das Cover der CD für die Digitale-Ausgabe, auf der das Adagietto nicht zu finden ist, bearbeitet wurde … aber das Cover der CD konnte ich nicht finden):
Fotos, aufgenommen vom Zug aus (von Paul Fusco/Look), der den Leichnam Kennedys von NYC nach Arlington brachte, gibt es hier zu sehen:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/robert-f-kennedys-funeral-train-fifty-years-later
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