@ArchivistsAlley @JustinHowe He was composing even when he was losing his mind. Our prof played an example of a late orchestration to demonstrate a common bad habit of novice orchestrators (over-doubling). Bernstein re-orchestrated a lot of his work so it sounded less soupy and over-doubled. @ArchivistsAlley @JustinHowe (Though some people have disputed that, and just said it sounds like that to modern people but wasn’t necessarily unusual for the time. But the fact it was so unusually dense does stick out, to a lot of people. I dunno what to make of it, to be honest.)