I was happy enough to see a version with Bernstein. And I clicked in and saw Aaron Copland on the balcony too! OMG what a treasured version! Thanks for the upload!
It would have been nice if they had spent just a little more time on the guys actually making the music. It seemed to be almost entirely either Bernstein waving the stick or Copland watching the proceedings. Could they have shown the trombones at least once? I believe the section at the time would have been Gordon Pulis-1st, Louis Van Haney-2nd, and Allen Ostrander - Bass Trombone.
Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland knew each other well. In fact, Bernstein actually was a student under Copland. Their friendship and companionship lasted until the year 1990, which was the year during which they both passed away. So sad. But nonetheless, this is an amazing recording of one of the most famous modern classical pieces of all time.
Just to say thank you for this upload. Bernstein conducting under Aaron's lovely old eyes... Thank you for letting us watch this great piece, that should be on our alarm clock, to remind us every day, first thing in the morning, of the greatness of the common man.
Once heard, never forgotten. The greatest of all 20th-century fanfares. Of the 18 fanfares commissioned by Eugene Goosens in 1941 it is the only one played with any regularity today.
Several conductors loved to do this piece. Phil Smith on trumpet makes it work so very well.
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For us Argentineans, this is the music to GATIVIDEO, a vhs company. This overture used to play (at a slightly slower tempo) at the beginning of almost every VHS in the 90s.
I was a kid during WW II, and remember hearing this played in a radio broadcast. I was too young to understand just what it meant, but I do remember the adults around me with wet eyes. Today, when I hear it, with a grown up understanding of what it means, I find my eyes getting damp, too. And to be able to, once again, enjoy Bernstein's interpretation of his friends work. Marvelous! ❤❤❤
One of the, if not the, biggest American classical pieces of the 20th century, and one of the if not the, most iconic American conductors. Really good. It's a pretty impeccable composition, not dated or kitschy, still sounds fresh.
Copland, in his autobiography, wrote of the request: "Eugene Goossens, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, had written to me at the end of August about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season. During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert. It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers". A total of 10 fanfares[1] were written at Goossens' behest, but Copland's is the only one which remains in the standard repertoire. Initial trumpet notes from Fanfare for the Common Man, Copland Memorial Garden, Tanglewood It was written in response to the US entry into World War II and was inspired in part by a famous 1942 speech[2] where vice president Henry A. Wallace proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man".[3] Goossens had suggested titles such as Fanfare for Soldiers, or sailors or airmen, and he wrote that "[i]t is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort...." Copland considered several titles including Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony and Fanfare for Four Freedoms; to Goossens' surprise, however, Copland titled the piece Fanfare for the Common Man. Goossens wrote, "Its title is as original as its music, and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance. If it is agreeable to you, we will premiere it 12 March 1943 at income tax time". Copland's reply was "I [am] all for honoring the common man at income tax time".[4] Copland later used the fanfare as the main theme of the fourth movement of his Third Symphony (composed between 1944 and 1946).
Do you know how many times Mr Copland has heard his composition..but it’s the great Leonard Bernstein conducting so one more time won’t hurt..great music..
Dang! Strange,and funny(?) how that works with a lot of folks dying at the same time(year) I remember going to six funerals in a year,then didn't go to another one for five years.
great to see copland and bernstein together near the end of their lives in 1990 just wish the video was in high definition i don't know who the woman is next to mr. copland?
Unfortunately it was broadcast with some edits, but the entire piece is only 3.5 minutes long so it would be hard to edit eleven minutes of it. Hopefully the entire version does exist somewhere.
@@johnrandolph6121 Are you sure this performance was edited down? Based on Bernstein’s cueing of the trumpets right after measure 1 (which is supposed to happen 10 measures later) I’d say that the editing was done by the musicians. Not by the TV people.
The greatest Generation I was lucky to be born in 1960s I could meet so many who who defeated Hitler. Soon all we will have is history books and videos of them.
I submit this for the funeral of Alexei #Navalny: "Fanfare for the Common Man" (conducted here by Leonard Bernstein). Request: Gustavo Dudamel to conduct graveside at the funeral service.
0:31 Aaron Copland (1900-1990) in audience. He wrote this in response to the US entry into World War II inspired in part by vice president Henry Wallace's speech which proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man". Had FDR not replaced Wallace with Truman it would have been a much different world: no Hiroshima/Nagasaki, etc. However due to a changed better world we might never have been born, at least in the form we are. 🌍
Nobody can say Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been averted if someone other than Truman was President especially if the war had progressed the same way as it did in the four months between the time FDR died and the bombs were dropped, that ended the war.
Yes, I agree completely - Copeland IS America. In the same way, as I've always thought that Elgar is Britain. These two geniuses create music that is just American and British. I can't explain or even analyse how I come to this conclusion...and that is the power of music!
I still prefer Copeland conducting this. I LOVE Bernstein and he considers Copeland his only real teacher. But the timing of Copeland'sversion seems more flowing to my ears.
I love bernstein, but it was so hard to tell what he's conducting. Is that just me? I'm a musician and If i was trying to follow him I would've fucked up so bad.
I’m playing timpani for this in my university’s concert band. I think he’s conducting the musical expression rather than the usual keeping time since they’re professionals.
@@AskChristopherP Maestro Bernstein was always an expressive conductor, he always stipulated that he disliked conductors that purely beat time with no colours attached.
He's conducting his orchestra, so I'm sure the players are used to whatever his particular mannerisms, tics or dramatics. As someone commented, he's conducting for expression. These old pros don't need a strict time count. It's been said that some of the great orchestras playing traditional pieces wouldn't even need a conductor, except to get them all going at the same time.
When Bernstein passed away they never told his great friend Aaron Copland as they felt that Copland's Alzheimer's had progressed too far for him to comprehend.
I was really looking forward to that given Bernstein was a great friend of Copeland and then stunned to see Copeland in the audience. So it’s even more of a shame someone in the horns stuffed this up - At 0:58, again at 1:28 … and again 1:57! … and yet again at 2:33. Too many errors for what I assume are pro players.
Yeah, it's great-except for one minor detail: It sucks. I bet the fr. hns. wish they could take back bars 11, 15&16, et al., and the stiff, obvious conducting is not what one might call 'subtle', is it? And don't get me started about the unstable pitch in the finale. I guess you can't win 'em all, eh?
I think the quality of the actual recording has a lot to do with it - but I have to agree that the French Horns are a little ropey, shall we say? I'm a retired musician, so I suppose it's easy for me to now be an armchair critic!
I haven't been there since the renovation and by the way it's now called David Geffen Hall. The reviews seem to agree that the acoustics are better now, some claiming considerably, which is good but it will probably never be a Symphony Hall or Musikverein. But it's not going to be torn down....they just spend 600 million on it.
@@johnrandolph6121 Thanks. I haven't been there since the newest renovation but I recall past attempts at improving the space had the same reactions, that it was much better acoustically -- it just wasn't. I'll reserve judgement till I go there and hear for myself.