{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"52359"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Estate of Leonard Bernstein Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Limited-edition lithograph poster marking the tenth anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's \"MASS.\" The poster is printed on a subtly striated grayish-brown paper with all text printed in royal purple ink. The print features a \"Sketch for Final Canons from MASS\" as written on the top staff of the poster. The rest of the composition for the print includes fifteen more staffs with treble and bass clef arrangements written on the staff lines and lyrics written underneath. Bernstein's signature is on the last row of staffs.\r\n\r\nPrinted in the lower left corner beneath the last staff is the following text:\r\n\"Original Lithograph\r\n(c) Copyright 1971 1981 by Leonard Bernstein\r\n                                       and Stephen Schwarz [sic]\"\r\n\r\nThis image is not available online larger than a thumbnail to protect the copyright of its creator(s). For a more detailed examination of this item, please schedule an appointment in the Museum\u2019s Reading Room."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2003.077.0001"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Limited-edition lithograph poster marking the tenth anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's MASS.\r\n\r\nThe poster is printed on a subtly striated grayish-brown paper with all text printed in royal purple ink; the striations appear as part of the texture of the paper. The print features a \"Sketch for Final Canons from MASS\" as written on the top staff of the poster. The rest of the composition for the print is fifteen more staffs with treble and bass clef arrangements written on the staff lines. Lyrics are written beneath the musical notes on the staffs and are as follows:\r\n\"Lau-da, Lau-da, Lau-da, Lau-de, Lau-da\r\n\r\nLau-da, Lau-da-te Deum. Lau-da, Lau-da, Lau-da-te\r\n\r\nDe-um. Lau-da, Lau-da, Lau-da-te E-um. Lau-da, etc.\"\r\n\r\nAcross the last two rows of staffs is Bernstein's signature and then \"Wien [Vienna], 1981\" beneath his autograph. It is noted at the top of the poster that the sketch for the final canons of MASS was first sketched in Vienna in 1970. \r\n\r\nPrinted in the lower left corner beneath the last staff is the following text:\r\n\"Original Lithograph\r\n(c) Copyright 1971 1981 by Leonard Bernstein\r\n                                       and Stephen Schwarz [sic]\r\n\r\nTwo watermarks appear in the paper [See Media Attachments]. One watermark is in the upper right corner and faces the right edge of the paper. It is an oval surrounding the traditional ancient symbol for Rome that shows the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, being nourished by the legendary she-wolf with the text \"ROMA\" beneath the imagery. In the lower right corner and facing the right edge of the paper is the second watermark. It is the text: \"C. M. Fabriano Italia,\" which is the imprint of the Italian paper company Cartiere Miliani Fabriano that has been in business since 1264.\r\n\r\nThis poster was gifted to the Museum in 2003 from the Estate of Leonard Bernstein. In preparation for the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination in November 2003, the Museum developed an exhibit titled \"Our Nation's Stage\" that was installed in the Visitor's Center of the Museum. The Museum also partnered with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at this time and installed a duplicate set of artifacts in the Meyerson Symphony Center during its performance run of MASS. Part of the exhibit design incorporated Bernstein's handwritten score as a backdrop/wallpaper for the panels. After the Museum contacted the Bernstein Estate, they sent along this poster as a gift to the Museum in addition to providing very high-resolution scans of the score for the Museum's use in the exhibit.\r\n\r\nPoster in good condition. Was flattened for several months since it had been stored rolled inside a tube for many years. Barely visible creases and indentations throughout paper from being handled. (JM 02/28/2020)"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Paper"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/62904/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"62904"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Limited-edition lithograph marking 10th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's MASS"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Art"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/62904/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Music","Artwork","Posters","Bernstein, Leonard","John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts","Vienna"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Print"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1970 - 1981"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["49.0538481077"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Exhibit Label: Leonard Bernstein was born in 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. The family soon moved to Boston, and Bernstein grew up playing the piano and working in theatres. At 25 he was named the conductor of the New York Philharmonic. \r\n \r\nBernstein\u2019s body of work was abundant and wide-ranging, including music for the stage \u2013 On the Town, Peter Pan, On the Waterfront, Candide and West Side Story \u2013 as well as choral and orchestral pieces such as Symphony No. 1, Chichester Psalms and MASS.\r\n \r\nIn 1963, shortly before the premiere of Bernstein\u2019s Symphony No. 3 \u201cKaddish\u201d in Tel Aviv, Israel, President Kennedy was assassinated. Bernstein dedicated the piece to Kennedy\u2019s memory, honoring a president who shared his progressive ideals.\r\n \r\nBernstein died in 1990. His fusion of high culture and pop culture continues to influence American composers and musicians today. (Special exhibit, \"Art Reframes History,\" on view on the Museum's seventh floor from September 9, 2020 through May 9, 2021)","Exhibit Label: Born in New York in 1948, Stephen Schwartz started as a record producer at RCA, but rapidly transitioned to Broadway theatre. In 1971 he wrote music and new lyrics for Godspell, as well as collaborated with Leonard Bernstein on the lyrics for MASS. At one point in the early 1970s three of his musicals were on Broadway simultaneously: Godspell, The Magic Show and Pippin. Later achievements include Grammys for his work on Pocahontas and Wicked, and Academy Awards for his work on Pocahontas and the Prince\r\nof Egypt.\r\n \r\nWhen Wicked reached its 1,900th performance, Schwartz became the only songwriter in history to have three separate shows performed more than 1,900 times on Broadway. (Special exhibit, \"Art Reframes History,\" on view on the Museum's seventh floor from September 9, 2020 through May 9, 2021)","Leonard Bernstein was deeply impacted by the assassination of President Kennedy. In a speech at the United Jewish Appeal Benefit on November 25, 1963, Bernstein said, \"I know of no musician in this country who did not love John F. Kennedy. American artists have for three years looked to the White House with unaccustomed confidence and warmth. We loved him for the honor in which he held art, in which he held every creative impulse of the human mind, whether it was expressed in words, or notes, or paints, or mathematical symbols.... Our music will never be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. And with each note we will honor the spirit of John Kennedy, commemorate his courage, and reaffirm his faith in the Triumph of the Mind.\" -- Stephen Fagin, Curator","To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination in 2003, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra performed Leonard Bernstein's \"MASS\" at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. The two sell-out performances on November 22 and 23, 2003, were complemented by a special exhibit, \"Our Nation's Stage,\" created by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza to explore the development of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the making of \"MASS,\" commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for the 1971 opening. Reporting from Dallas on the 40th anniversary, Washington Post reporter Lee Hockstader wrote, \"This production of 'Mass' is taken as a further sign that the city has come to terms with the assassination, as is the carefully designed Sixth Floor Museum, which opened in 1989.\" -- Stephen Fagin, Curator","Exhibit Label: Envisioned as a dramatic, musical pageant, MASS was commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Bernstein was influenced by Kennedy as a leader who shared his progressive views and saw Kennedy\u2019s death as an event that led to the social and cultural upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In MASS, he uses the traditional sacred liturgy of a Catholic mass combined with the Jewish tradition of debate with God to illuminate what Bernstein perceived as chaos and deterioration in American society. \r\nAccording to Bernstein\u2019s daughter Jamie, \u201cMASS is very polarizing, and people either love it or hate it\u2026 There are lyrics that sound as if it\u2019s his own inner voice, where he says: \u2018What I say I don\u2019t feel, what I feel I don\u2019t show, what I show isn\u2019t real, what is real I don\u2019t know.\u2019 You could write a whole biography of Leonard Bernstein by tracking MASS itself.\u201d (Special exhibit, \"Art Reframes History,\" on view on the Museum's seventh floor from September 9, 2020 through May 9, 2021)"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"65396"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"26 5/16 × 19 5/16 in. (66.8 × 49.1 cm)"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["66.8338836678"]}}]}