09/17/2025
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A statement from CPAS Managing Director, Corey Crider:
The CPAS ownership and management would find it utterly performative to solipsistically frontload this post with caveats highlighting our ideological, political, or religious differences with the late, great Maestro Bernstein, seeking “permission” to simply echo his words as they relate to our mission in creating art and molding artists, so as to enrich lives, foster arts appreciation/engagement, and inspire marvel at the beauty of the arts as a reflection of the beauty of God. So, instead, I’ll just urge you to read the excerpt below from a speech the legendary, American conductor gave at a fundraising event for the United Jewish Appeal in New York just two days after President John F. Kennedy's murder. He explained that musicians were filled with sorrow and rage, but that their mission was to transform those emotions into art rather than retribution. Regarding how to respond — specifically in the arena of the arts — to the assassination of an innocent, the ownership and management at CPAS could not agree more. Bravo, Maestro! Hear, hear!
— Corey Crider, Managing Director
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“This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.
We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But this sorrow and rage will not inflame us to seek retribution; rather they will inflame our art. Our music will never again 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.”et
