Leonard Bernstein

INTERDISCIPLINARY VALUES
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... he recognised that the important matter for him then - and for his entire life - was the opening of the mind to the validity of interdisciplinary learning; the best way to understand a problem was the recognition of its relationship to other spheres of knowledge.

' The principal thing I absorbed was a sense of interdisciplinary values - that the best way to know a thing is in the context of another discipline'.

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ISAAC STERN on LENNY
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'In art, in performance, one of the most difficult things in performing music is - also for him - one of his greatest weakness - the most difficult thing is how to be simple....... Don't interpret, just let music go free like through a glass, a clear glass, a beautiful glass. That's for me the greatest art and that's the centre of the greatest artists' achievements, where everything seems so simple, so right, and just that.