Highlights of this special program include Bernstein conducting the final symphony—the Symphony No. 9—by one of his most cherished composers, and one to whom he felt the deepest of connections, Gustav Mahler (complete with a brief spoken introduction by Bernstein himself taken from the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures he gave at Harvard in 1972-73). That will be paired that with a performance—again with Bernstein on the podium—of the finale from his Symphony No. 3, "Kaddish," named for, and incorporating, the traditional prayer for the dead in the Jewish tradition. Also on the program: a wide array of Bernstein's musical celebrations and commemorations of various friends and family members, the Anniversaries for piano—as well as both the very last composition he would write and a selection drawn from his final appearance as a conductor, not quite two months before his death on October 14, 1990.
You can hear Sunday on Blue Lake with Foley Schuler every Sunday morning from 9 until noon on Blue Lake Public Radio.
