President Eisenhower's description of most
"serious" music, delivered to Bernstein after a White
House concert, gave him the title for a song cycle. Lukas Foss , Jack Gottlieb , Leonard Slatkin and John McClure discuss Bernstein's concert music.
5.00 Bernstein
Symphony No 1 (Jeremiah) was completed in 1942 and first performed during
Bernstein's fruitful 1943/44 season. It won the New York
Critics' Circle Award of 1944. The composer conducts the New York Philharmonic, with Jennie Tourel (mezzo-soprano).