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Making this record has been a journey of discovery and a labor of love. I've learned so much, about Leonard Bernstein, man and musician, and about the legacy we're celebrating now on the 100th anniversary of his birth. This is a celebration of his creativity, humanity, generosity of spirit, and courage of conviction. All of these things live on in Bernstein's music, and in the work he did, tirelessly and passionately, to share truth and beauty as broadly and deeply as possible. The world of American music, the world of music, the world as I know it, would not be what it is without the vision and mission he set for himself during his lifetime and left for us to continue after he was gone. I can't find the words to express my thanks to everyone who has helped this ambitious, very personal project come to life.... 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It comes straight from my heart - for Lenny, with love. xoxo - Lara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752707457-AA7D4RDFR00KL5UYK0PH/US-UK_Apple_Music_Badge_CMYK.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 12, Some Other Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510704740503-B7006J5EDMW70GM1OAXU/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Green.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 12, Some Other Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752720536-7J1EH7YB22HSPG1IKNLY/Amazon_Logo_1.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 12, Some Other Time http://www.laradownes.com/for-lenny-episodes/10 monthly 0.5 2018-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1517451326576-LIA20CRDJIVJNX4S2C31/Lenny+10+Collage.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 10, Many Moods - For Lenny: Episode 10 LB was a man of many talents, interests, passions, and moods. Ask the people who knew and loved him, and you'll hear about a man - a father, friend, teacher, mentor, lover, rival - whose personality was big enough to fill every room and any heart. Listen to his music, read his letters, and you'll find all the sides of that larger-than-life personality: quiet and searching; brash and bold; dark and light; tragic and goofy and everything in between. This is what I love best about Bernstein's music - the window it opens into his soul, his mind, and his many different moods. And now, the new music that's been written in his honor, for this project, is capturing so many different sides of this many-splendoured man. For Lenny, with love- - Lara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752707457-AA7D4RDFR00KL5UYK0PH/US-UK_Apple_Music_Badge_CMYK.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 10, Many Moods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510704740503-B7006J5EDMW70GM1OAXU/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Green.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 10, Many Moods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752720536-7J1EH7YB22HSPG1IKNLY/Amazon_Logo_1.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 10, Many Moods http://www.laradownes.com/for-lenny-episodes/9 monthly 0.5 2018-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1516408827199-BDAQEWJFD87SIBKRWZ1D/Lara+and+Tom1+FINAL.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 9, A Simple Song - For Lenny: Episode 9 This track, this simple song, represents everything I am hoping to express about Leonard Bernstein and about American music - about inspiration and collaboration, tradition and innovation. Thomas Hampson began his career under Bernstein's guidance, learned and performed Bernstein's music under the Maestro's baton, knew LB as a mentor and a friend, and took from him inspiration for his own life in music. I first saw Tom perform when I was a student in Vienna, and I recognized him immediately for what he is: an American original. Like Leonard Bernstein. American music brought us together. Way back when I was putting together my album American Ballads, I happened upon Tom's Song of America project, and I fell in love with a new world of music. American songs, the American vernacular, our history, our story, told in music... And a light went on for me. You could be an artist, a great performer, a scholar, a teacher, an explorer... Like Thomas Hampson. Like Leonard Bernstein. And all these years later, Tom and I are making music together, and it's magic. What he does with A Simple Song began back in the day with LB. I feel so lucky, so blessed, to be here today with Tom. And this is our journey - American music, American musicians - passing a torch, sharing a story, walking down this long road of history, singing a simple song. - Lara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1516426931046-QOEZ4IRIMKS15SW5188A/Screen+Shot+2018-01-19+at+9.41.19+PM.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 9, A Simple Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752707457-AA7D4RDFR00KL5UYK0PH/US-UK_Apple_Music_Badge_CMYK.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 9, A Simple Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510704740503-B7006J5EDMW70GM1OAXU/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Green.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 9, A Simple Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752720536-7J1EH7YB22HSPG1IKNLY/Amazon_Logo_1.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 9, A Simple Song http://www.laradownes.com/for-lenny-episodes/8 monthly 0.5 2018-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1516163778199-G5ZX8SQBKWV45E0DGT7K/lara+piano+2016.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 8, Songs Without Words - For Lenny: Episode 8 Singing at the piano - it's what I love to do. No words, just my 10 fingers and my 88 keys. The magic of telling a story through melody and harmony and the spaces between the notes - this is where I find my truth, and my ability to reach out and communicate. On this album are many songs, some of them sung by great singers, others translated into songs without words. Lenny wrote beautiful, brilliant songs, and some of them are here for you. And then there are songs that remind me of him - a song by Sondheim, another by Ned Rorem, and this exquisite song What Shall We Remember? by Ricky Ian Gordon. For Lenny, with love... - Lara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1516164165899-1A8PT373Z657T9GUAUW2/LD+RIG.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 8, Songs Without Words https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752707457-AA7D4RDFR00KL5UYK0PH/US-UK_Apple_Music_Badge_CMYK.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 8, Songs Without Words https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510704740503-B7006J5EDMW70GM1OAXU/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Green.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 8, Songs Without Words https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752720536-7J1EH7YB22HSPG1IKNLY/Amazon_Logo_1.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 8, Songs Without Words http://www.laradownes.com/for-lenny-episodes/2017/11/14/for-lenny-episodes-7mh9n-fa5n6-36xab-kkt2a-ah5gw-dssz5-52l8e monthly 0.5 2018-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1515475573892-6RR7LJ6Y0DEDWPHK4TY8/On_the_Town_musical_poster_Adelphi_Theatre_1944_or_1945.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 7, New York, New York - For Lenny: Episode 7 Leonard Bernstein was Mr. New York. Standing ovations at Carnegie Hall, the toast of Broadway... he even lived for a while at the Dakota for godsake. And he loved this town. "New York, New York, a helluva town - The Bronx is up but the Battery's down - The people ride in a hole in the ground - New York, New York, it's a helluva town". I've known those lyrics (from Bernstein's On the Town) since I was about five years old, thanks to an unconventional childhood involving lots of MGM musicals, and an extremely inappropriate crush on Gene Kelly, who starred in many of same, including the movie version of On the Town. My friends were obsessed with Rob Lowe and I was in love with Gene Kelly - go figure. It's a helluva song, New York, New York. And this sweet, silly tribute by Lukas Foss, written to celebrate LB's 70th birthday, captures everything we love to love about this great big, bustling, exhilarating, exasperating city. I still have a crush on Gene Kelly. And New York City. And Lenny.   - Lara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1515475937083-PESS8MV3KDQ8R5O49XM2/Screen+Shot+2018-01-08+at+9.31.18+PM.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 7, New York, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752707457-AA7D4RDFR00KL5UYK0PH/US-UK_Apple_Music_Badge_CMYK.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 7, New York, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510704740503-B7006J5EDMW70GM1OAXU/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Green.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 7, New York, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752720536-7J1EH7YB22HSPG1IKNLY/Amazon_Logo_1.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 7, New York, New York http://www.laradownes.com/for-lenny-episodes/2017/11/14/for-lenny-episodes-7mh9n-fa5n6-36xab-kkt2a-ah5gw monthly 0.5 2018-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1514584169812-V4WD9FPKWAJA4L9CP47I/Lara+Rhiannon+NC1.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 6, So Pretty - For Lenny: Episode 6 Leonard Bernstein was an activist, at heart and in action. He used his art to speak out for social change, against injustice, and to the bigger picture of truth, beauty and humanity. He made music in the world. That has been a tremendous inspiration to me as an artist, making music as we are now, in troubled times. Bernstein's example keeps me fighting the good fight, out on the road and the airwaves, taking American music to communities where it matters and where it can create dialogue, understanding, and maybe some healing of divides. Joining me this week is Rhiannon Giddens, another American artist who never hesitates to speak out strongly through her music, and to examine the truths of American culture, no matter how painful and complicated. As always, LB said it best: "It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams." Catch Rhiannon and me in Brooklyn on February 7, celebrating the launch of FOR LENNY at National Sawdust! TICKETS - Lara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1514996867396-4UCIO2KUNI99PBJMVBHY/Screen+Shot+2018-01-03+at+8.27.04+AM.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 6, So Pretty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752707457-AA7D4RDFR00KL5UYK0PH/US-UK_Apple_Music_Badge_CMYK.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 6, So Pretty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510704740503-B7006J5EDMW70GM1OAXU/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Green.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 6, So Pretty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752720536-7J1EH7YB22HSPG1IKNLY/Amazon_Logo_1.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 6, So Pretty http://www.laradownes.com/for-lenny-episodes/2017/11/14/for-lenny-episodes-7mh9n-fa5n6-36xab-kkt2a monthly 0.5 2018-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1513010033924-559IK7BBPRUCEYEJWDZD/BernsteinFamily01_REDUCED-1489181229-960x480.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 5, The Story Of My Life - For Lenny: Episode 5 This week I'm focusing on the private life of a very public man. Bernstein held family and friendship at the center of his world, and he relied on the quiet place he found at home with those he loved. The music this week was written in tribute to family - three pieces dedicated to LB's children: Alexander, Jamie and Nina - and one for his wife Felicia. And in sharing the story of Lenny's life, I turn to "The Story Of My Life", an unknown gem of a song, written for the show Wonderful Town. Warning: you won't be able to stop humming this tune! - Lara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752707457-AA7D4RDFR00KL5UYK0PH/US-UK_Apple_Music_Badge_CMYK.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 5, The Story Of My Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510704740503-B7006J5EDMW70GM1OAXU/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Green.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 5, The Story Of My Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752720536-7J1EH7YB22HSPG1IKNLY/Amazon_Logo_1.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 5, The Story Of My Life http://www.laradownes.com/for-lenny-episodes/2017/11/14/for-lenny-episodes-7mh9n-fa5n6-36xab monthly 0.5 2018-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1512441384684-GCLHJFMV2S13881QNZB6/Javier+and+Lara+Colburn.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 4, Cool - For Lenny: Episode 4 West Side Story... It's my favorite musical and my favorite movie. I can literally lip-sync the whole show. And it's a piece of American music that changed everything - the future of Broadway musicals, American opera, the way we tell American stories and the kinds of stories we tell... This week I'm showcasing the spirit of adventure and innovation that brought the show to life, and I'm thrilled to introduce a rising star - Mexican/American clarinetist Javier Morales-Martinez, who joins me for a very cool new version of the song Cool from West Side Story. - Lara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752707457-AA7D4RDFR00KL5UYK0PH/US-UK_Apple_Music_Badge_CMYK.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 4, Cool https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510704740503-B7006J5EDMW70GM1OAXU/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Green.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 4, Cool https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752720536-7J1EH7YB22HSPG1IKNLY/Amazon_Logo_1.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 4, Cool http://www.laradownes.com/for-lenny-episodes/2017/11/14/for-lenny-episodes-7mh9n-fa5n6 monthly 0.5 2018-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1511564382111-YO54IUZ7XKBANZ0HLEQI/Big+stuff.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 3, Big Stuff - For Lenny: Episode 3 Call this track "When Lenny met Lady"... Big Stuff is a song that Bernstein wrote for Billie Holiday to sing in the ballet Fancy Free. And so they came together in this song, these two American artists who lived and breathed music, who broke the rules and changed the game, who are both iconic and iconoclastic. It's one of those shimmering moments in American music that leaves us something spectacular in its one-of-a-kindness. When I play this new arrangement (made for me by my friend Luke Russell), I feel Lenny and Billie at the piano with me, their presence larger than life, the smell of cigarettes and gardenias in the air, the inspiration I've taken from both of them guiding my fingers... - Lara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752707457-AA7D4RDFR00KL5UYK0PH/US-UK_Apple_Music_Badge_CMYK.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 3, Big Stuff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510704740503-B7006J5EDMW70GM1OAXU/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Green.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 3, Big Stuff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752720536-7J1EH7YB22HSPG1IKNLY/Amazon_Logo_1.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 3, Big Stuff http://www.laradownes.com/for-lenny-episodes/2017/11/14/for-lenny-episodes-7mh9n monthly 0.5 2018-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1511363961033-4KCJ2NZ55DJP42TGY9UE/Screen+Shot+2017-11-14+at+12.28.15+PM.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 2, Anniversaries for Lenny - For Lenny: Episode 2 At the heart of this album is the affection and admiration that American musicians, across genres and generations, share when we look to Leonard Bernstein. This week you'll hear four brand new pieces of music composed in LB's memory, by musicians whose lives and work are profoundly linked to his legacy. John Corigliano knew Bernstein as a mentor and lifelong friend; Stephen Schwartz remembers their collaboration on the groundbreaking Mass; Eleonor Sandresky and Michael Abels both reflect the kind of adventurous, genre bending American music-making that Lenny made possible. Here they all pay tribute to him with new piano pieces, composed in honor of his 100th birthday with devotion, gratitude, and much love. - Lara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752707457-AA7D4RDFR00KL5UYK0PH/US-UK_Apple_Music_Badge_CMYK.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 2, Anniversaries for Lenny https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510704740503-B7006J5EDMW70GM1OAXU/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Green.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 2, Anniversaries for Lenny https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752720536-7J1EH7YB22HSPG1IKNLY/Amazon_Logo_1.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 2, Anniversaries for Lenny http://www.laradownes.com/for-lenny-episodes/2017/11/14/for-lenny-episodes monthly 0.5 2018-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510753000069-IAB02EDLWURYWYZS794Y/Photo+Oct+03%2C+9+22+51+AM.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 1, with Kevin "K.O." Olusola - For Lenny Episode 1 Something's Coming from West Side Story is a song that's all about reaching towards the future. Bernstein was a musician ahead of his time, a ground-breaker, risk-taker, game-changer. So I'm starting this album off with something I think Lenny would love - this collaboration with Kevin "K.O." Olusola, who beatboxes with me on this forward-reaching version of a favorite song. We had so much fun making this, and we hope you love it too! - Lara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510752707457-AA7D4RDFR00KL5UYK0PH/US-UK_Apple_Music_Badge_CMYK.jpg For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 1, with Kevin "K.O." Olusola https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae0c27e4b0d621f6a894bf/1510704740503-B7006J5EDMW70GM1OAXU/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Green.png For Lenny - FOR LENNY: Episode 1, with Kevin "K.O." 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