Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra perform Leonard Bernstein's "Fanfare for the Inauguration of JFK."
Bernstein met JFK in the 1950s and regularly attended events at the Kennedy White House. Frank Sinatra was asked to produce a gala on the eve of the Inauguration on January 19, 1961, at the National Guard Armory, Washington, D.C. Selected to conduct the seventy-piece band, Bernstein began the gala with his newly composed Fanfare. Despite a terrible blizzard and a delayed start, the star-studded line-up, including Ethel Merman, Nat "King" Cole, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ella Fitzgerald and many others, managed to entertain to the delight of the President and First Lady-elect.
Source:
https://leonardbernstein.com/works/view/254/fanfare-for-the-inauguration-of-john-f-kennedy
Part of "Portraits of America," performed LIVE in the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall, January 22, 2017.
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Bernstein met JFK in the 1950s and regularly attended events at the Kennedy White House. Frank Sinatra was asked to produce a gala on the eve of the Inauguration on January 19, 1961, at the National Guard Armory, Washington, D.C. Selected to conduct the seventy-piece band, Bernstein began the gala with his newly composed Fanfare. Despite a terrible blizzard and a delayed start, the star-studded line-up, including Ethel Merman, Nat "King" Cole, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ella Fitzgerald and many others, managed to entertain to the delight of the President and First Lady-elect.
Source:
https://leonardbernstein.com/works/view/254/fanfare-for-the-inauguration-of-john-f-kennedy
Part of "Portraits of America," performed LIVE in the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall, January 22, 2017.
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