Featured Work
Halil: Nocturne (1981)
Overview
Bernstein dedicated Halil "to the spirit of Yadin [Tenenbaum] and his fallen brothers.” Tanenbaum was an Israeli flute student killed in his tank close to the Suez Canal during the 1973 war. The title "Halil" is the Hebrew word for flute.
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Thus Spake Leonard Bernstein:
"The best way to know a thing is in the context of another discipline."
-Leonard Bernstein, "The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard," 1973