I Hate Music (song cycle)

I Hate Music: A cycle of Five Kid Songs for Soprano and Piano is a 1943 song cycle by Leonard Bernstein. A complete performance of the piece takes about 7 minutes. The piece received its premiere at the Lenox Public Library in Lenox, Massachusetts on 24 August 1943. Bernstein performed the piece at its premiere with the soprano Jennie Tourel. Bernstein and Tourel performed the piece again on 13 November 1943 at Tourel's New York City debut at the The Town Hall. The critic Virgil Thomson described it as "witty, alive and adroitly fashioned" in the New York Herald Tribune.

I Hate Music (song cycle)

I Hate Music: A cycle of Five Kid Songs for Soprano and Piano is a 1943 song cycle by Leonard Bernstein. A complete performance of the piece takes about 7 minutes. The piece received its premiere at the Lenox Public Library in Lenox, Massachusetts on 24 August 1943. Bernstein performed the piece at its premiere with the soprano Jennie Tourel. Bernstein and Tourel performed the piece again on 13 November 1943 at Tourel's New York City debut at the The Town Hall. The critic Virgil Thomson described it as "witty, alive and adroitly fashioned" in the New York Herald Tribune.