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.
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.
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.
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! ❤❤❤
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.
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.
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..
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
2:10 says it all.
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When I saw Copland in the balcony, I cheered and threw up my arms like a boxer winning a title fight. What a great moment with two icons of music.
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.
I was There!
When you hear the full orchestral version , you realize that ELPs 3 piece modern version was pretty damn good!
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.
Quite sobering to realize that Copland, who was 18 years older than Bernstein, outlived him by a couple of months.
@@catherinescott562 Exactly. Bernstein passed in October of 1990, and Copland passed in December of that same year. It's incredible.
Why were the first 12 bars cut out of this performance? Truly an iconic American piece.
Under Bernstein's inspiring guidance this iconic fanfare is more triumphant than ever!
Bernstein was the very best interpreter of Copland.
@@timirish2563so true
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.
BEST piece Copland ever wrote........The simplicity & dialog between the notes and chords is powerful and majestically HAUNTING
And Copland sitting there..wow
shocked me!
Must've been an absolute honour to hear his work being played with him present!
@@joshuagearing937 yes. Sometimes I think what Beethoven felt when he couldn't hear what he wrote...it makes me really sad then
@@blaht15 Yeah it is quite upsetting - having the ability to write such powerful music and not being able to hear it
Wow is right.
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.
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! ❤❤❤
Several conductors loved to do this piece. Phil Smith on trumpet makes it work so very well.
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.
Despite the fact that eleven measures of this classic work were edited out of the performance (no idea why), it is still great to see this.
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.
@@johnrandolph6121 he said eleven measures, not eleven minutes. and yes @charlescoleman5509 this is definitely missing the opening section.
Priceless inspiration moving beyond words
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..
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.
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Great video - document to see Copland and Bernstein ! Thanks to share it !
This is a "forever" masterpiece.
Absolutely moving.
God Bless both men. Total Geneses they died the same year 1990 the world lost so much that year. Also the great Sarah Vaughn
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?
The late great Roland Koloff on timpani !!!
Two pieces of music that bring me to tears. This and the Chariots of Fire theme.
Don't laugh,but Theme from A Summer Place is another.
Genius conducts genius!
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.
Simply awesome 👏…….
Awesome!
majestic!
Another reason to give thanks on this Thanksgiving Day....
I wonder if there has ever been a truly clam-free performance of this piece
I fancy the idea of this piece being played at my funeral (as I am and will remain a common man!)
What does clam free mean?
my favorite - th-cam.com/video/XFAqb9sULic/w-d-xo.html
It is almost all fortissimo playing and completely exposed..not only murderously difficult but scarry as well.
Check out James Lavine with NY Philamonic
George Alderson I’m with you. What does clam free mean? I guess I’ll look it up. Nothing else to do...in QUARANTINE for a month.
Ass was just kicked up and down the block and back! This is Badassery on a grand scale!
Bravo!
Gativideo forever
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.
I think the beginning has been edited a few bars.
True!
Cool beans.
I remember PM Trudeau the elder decided to go , and one of the TV networks played this music as there incidental music , I almost vomited .
This music is American and SACRED. Our national treasure.
2:10 that's what MAKES this!
Whenever I travel to any of our beautiful national parks I am playing Copeland in the car. Copeland is America.
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 would include William walton also as one of Britain's greatest composers
HOLA, ES COPLAND QUIEN APARECE AL PRINCIPIO ?
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.
It makes sense why. When a composer conducts his/her own piece, the audience and the ensemble both grab a sense of what the composer was going after.
Copland…. 85! my man died 5 years later
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.
Brian May, what do you think?
the chord at 2:26!!!!!
Can you do a version with better sound and more volume?
Jesus, that was really good. It's a good piece when it's played and conducted in a mediocre way, but that was really something
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.
@@sarahjones-jf4pr And if you ever read about his life, yes, he's all heart in his relationship to music.
@@sarahjones-jf4pr He was a showman - in a good way.
O Common Man, stop voting for fools, and make a better world for everyone!!
a bit fast
The sound quality is really bad also. Too bad because NYP is a truly great orchestra.
Copland actually conducted it at this speed. Others slowed it down.
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.
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?
Why would one be "subtle" in a piece like this?
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.
Not the best brass playing by a long way. Don't see how Bernstein could be happy with that performance
I agree.
Bruh, seriously!? This era was the peak of brass for the NYP. Phil Smith, Phil Meyers, Joe Alessi & Warren Deck (just to name the Principals)
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!
The piece is always played at the beginning of a program, before the boys are really ready to blast.
Horns are strutting no doubt!
What a piece of crap that Avery Fisher Hall is. Worst acoustics, cheap construction, ugly design.... please tear it down.
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.
What terrible acoustics
Straordinario! Grazie Aaron Copland