Danielle Woerner:

>Bernstein had a very good concise list of three considerations he used.
>IIRC, two of them are:
>
>-- Does it say something that needs to be said?
>-- Does it do so in a way that hasn't been done before?
>--??? (obviously had to do with the quality of 1&2)
>
>Can anyone help fill in the blank? When I heard Lennie's List (in the car)
>on a radio broadcast, it felt very complete to me.

I think the only criteria Bernstein had for conducting a work was whether
it gave him an orgasm or not...

Robin