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Two Love Songs (1949)
In 1949, Bernstein set a pair of texts by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke: Extinguish My Eyes and When My Soul Touches Yours.
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Thus Spake Leonard Bernstein:
"When I get in my composing period, it takes at least two, if not three weeks to get everyone else's notes [of the composers I've been conducting] out of my head -- Stravinsky's, Brahms', Mozart's."
-Leonard Bernstein, 1964