Leonard Bernstein on "A Quiet Place"

Leonard Bernstein, with his co-librettist Stephen Wadsworth, discussing "A Quiet Place," the operatic sequel to Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti" in a "Greenroom" interview with Jim Bernhard in 1983 on KUHT-TV, Houston-PBS. The opera premiered that year at Houston Grand Opera.

[@terryhammond1253]

A Quiet Place is a masterpiece. A great American opera. I have the vocal score. I adore it.

[@gonzoengineering4894]

Was privileged to hear the New York City Opera perform the final version of A Quiet Place, the version with Trouble in Tahiti, in my time as a music major. Incredible work that deserves much more frequent performance, or at least more recognition

[@Twentythousandlps]

The interview is actually from early 1982. Bernstein talks about getting back to completing the opera that October, meaning of 1982.

[@robkeeleycomposer]

I can warmly recommend the troubled genesis of A Quiet Place as vividly described by Charlie Harmon in 'On the Road and off the Record'.

[@billtaylor4]

I am a music fan and I have never heard of it.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

guessing there are a lot of things you have never heard of, child

[@sarahjones-jf4pr]

@@Marcel_Audubon NOW NOW STOP IT(Who is the child here.)

[@MrTrackman100]

@@sarahjones-jf4pr Ha!

[@MrTrackman100]

@@Marcel_Audubon Ouch!

[@gob9852]

@@Marcel_Audubon The ratio of all old people who have never heard of A Quiet Place and old people who have is infinity to one. You are the baby who asserts any amount of importance over yourself and your generation. Shut your mouth or cry to a mother.