i saw your comment before watching and the whole video over and over again im like "yeah wtf theyre right, how tf has george collier not fuckin used this yet?"
He had a reputation for being difficult and demanding, but he could be encouraging when the situation called for it! Could you imagine Toscanini working with a youth orchestra 😱
Our school actually has one of those as a conductor of the orchestra, he is incredibly talented, but won’t hesitate to say what he expects from us and what needs to be worked on. He can sometimes seem very harsh, but in reality he want the results to be good and thats exactly what he gets
@@weetabixharryArturo Toscanini is one of the best conductors of all time, but he is also known for being very harsh with orchestras and frequently insulting musicians. He lived in the first half of the XX century, if I recall correctly
If nothing else this makes you appreciate what a conductor is actually doing. When your a kid they just look like crazy people flailing their arms about.
Damn, I knew Berstein was good, but WOW. A C Major Scale. Stupendous! I mean, really, what he got out of the 15 notes of two octaves was amazing. I'm not being funny, I really am impressed.
It has been said that a great actor could read the Manhattan Yellow Pages(remember phone books? No? Sigh....) and get an Academy Award...always seemed to me an incorrect statement, Guess what? I was so wrong.... An absolutely breathtaking performance of the C Maj scale....by, of course, Lenny....
The mistake might have been to compare the Cmaj scale to the yellow pages. It's like thinking that A is simpler than Z because A comes first in the alphabet. Cmaj scale is like any scale, there is particular or magical property that makes the Cmaj scale simpler and more rudimentary, and the B♭min scale more complex or more elaborate. Apart from the fact that most people learn Cmaj scale first, and most learners give up on learning their instrument before knowing all their scales, or never work their scales properly. => Cmaj scale isn't the simplest. Chopin in his method argued that a pianist should start with Bmaj scale for his right hand, and D♭maj scale, because they correspond to the natural shape of the hand. It's as arbitrary as any. As the order of the keys on your keyboard. :)
@@nicojarI think it's not so much the specific key as it is the scale itself. The western major scale is such a basic building block of melody that to play it as a straight ascending sequence of notes really is akin to an actor reciting the yellow pages (or perhaps a dictionary would be more apt).
What a pleasant way to get feed back on how the orchestra naturally responds to his cues. And he has somenof his classics in there. If theres anyone who did something unexpected hed be able to correcthimself or let them know what he means by a movement.
I will. Thanks @@PinacoladaMatthew And in order to thank you for that gift, here is an other gift. Try "Visions" by Guilhem Descq, a hurdy gurdy tune whose climax is just a rising minor harmonic scale. Maybe that's more common, though.
@@zwieglupglup And for everyone who has never heard pines of rome, this is the most beautiful use of the major scale rising continuously...it really is... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pMeXzqTfNcY.htmlsi=-JVA8A7VXcSrXGyQ
So I’ve been told that c minor by default refers to melodic minor, as natural minor is technically “aeolian mode” which is unused in classical music, and harmonic minor is used only for chords and, you guessed it: harmony.
this is the most beautiful piece of music ever written. bernstein's lavish and broad conducting style on increases its beauty and allows it to transcend all other pieces of music.
Every music teacher or music director of the non-professional choirs I've sung for has pulled this stunt. "Hey, you don't want to watch me? I'm throw the tempo, dynamic, emphasis etc so much you'll have no choice. It's effective but I'm not sure it tells you much about whether Bernstein was a legend or a tone deaf SOB (I tend towards the former option FWIW but each to their own).
@xavierdimoff that is so bizarre. When I watched this video last week I was sure I was listening to C Dorian. Listening to it today it is clearly C major. My ears are playing tricks on me! 😂
Personally, I'm very big on Stephen Sondheim's career, but watching videos like this make me feel that Bernstein is more palatable, for better and for worse.
Leonard studied under Metropolis at Harvard. He helped many people along his way including Ozawa. Can you imagine Leonard Bernstein and Burt Bacharach saying hello to each other on a bus. I wrote lyrics for Bruce Springsteen. I remember Leonard's soundtrack to West Side Story. I also studied Rodgers and Hammerstein. Leonard's made a major contribution I think we should celebrate him. He really is the Great Professor Leonard Bernstein.
I mean, let's not over-think it. It was an exercise for the orchestra to learn how to read and respond to conductor's cues. The beauty lies in the balance and synchronicity of the orchestra's playing, but that proves, more than anything, that a well-arranged orchestra can make anything sound beautiful.
