Snapshots for Soprano, Oboe and Cello Music by Steve and Juie Bernstein

Commissioned by the Young Musicians Foundation in honor of David Weiss, the first recipient of the "Living the Legacy" Award

TEXTS:

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others--Jonathan Swift

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.--Henry Ward Beecher

One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade.--Chinese proverb

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.--Chinese proverb

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.--Jon Kabat-Zinn (used with permission by the author)

 

 

 

“Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house—the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar is the house.”
-Benjamin Britten