{"id":"2065166000883196350","url":"https://x.com/BeatlesPraise/status/2065166000883196350","text":"\"Three bars of 'A Day in the Life' still sustain me, rejuvenate me, inflame my senses and sensibilities.\"\n  --#LeonardBernstein #Maestro\n\n\"'Eleanor Rigby' belongs in there among, I might get yelled at by some classical musicians, along there with Schubert and Mozart.\"\n  --#JoshuaBell @JoshuaBellMusic  \n\n\"A Beatles record is definitely cleverer than a Henze opera.\"\n  --#PierreBoulez #Serialism\n\n\"Without irony, I regard Lennon and McCartney with Schumann and Brahms as the greatest songwriters of all time.\"\n  --#PeterSchickele #PDQBach\n\n\"The Beatles are the most important mediators between popular and serious music of this century.\"\n  --#KarlheinzStockhausen   \n\n\"They haven't begun to be equalled.\"\n  --#NedRorem    \n\n#Classical  #Composers  #Conductors  #TheBeatles  #Songwriters  #GOAT  \n\nSources: The Beatles, Stokes; \"Fab Fourum,\" SiriusXM, 2018; Composers On Music: 8 Centuries of Writings, Morganstern; \"Bach To the Beatles, P.D.Q.\", New York Post, 2001; \"Composer Ned Rorem: A conversation with Bruce Duffie,\" 1986; Sound On Sound magazine, 2008","author":{"name":"Let Us Now Praise... The Beatles","username":"BeatlesPraise","avatarUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1624151582823571467/fzevM3hM_200x200.jpg"},"createdAt":"Thu Jun 11 20:15:18 +0000 2026","engagement":{"replies":4,"retweets":49,"likes":236,"views":8253},"media":{"photos":[{"url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKjwWlTakAAfGVU.jpg?name=orig","width":500,"height":702},{"url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKjwc8hboAAqvjk.jpg?name=orig","width":768,"height":768}],"videos":[]},"adhxContext":{"savedByCount":1,"publicTags":[],"previewUrl":"https://adhx.com/BeatlesPraise/status/2065166000883196350"}}