Well...I was also struck by the clarity of his lecture and the way he talks. I checked out lectures to audiences right before a concert, and he just has the gift of speaking-like a book. It's incredible. Inevitably, the guy read a lot. It is said his house all his walls were full of books and he didn't sleep much because he read all night. So with that in mind, I believe he knew all this stuff so well that he didn't really memorize, but he just knew it.
If only this was shown to us in secondary school. What an enlightening, inspiring and diligent video. May your workings live on forever Bernstein, and to those who inspired him.
It wasn't enough for me to know that I could watch them anytime I want - for free, no less - here on TH-cam. After seeing them all, I purchased the entire series on Amazon because I just had to OWN them! Definitely worth supporting in that way. One of my most cherished DVD collections! :)
If not me, someone else would do it but had Bernstein not done, no one else could do these lectures. We owe so much to him, for his recordings, for his podium grandeur, for his music, for his wisdom. Thank you for you comment and your welcome, enjoy, best :)
I am so grateful for your upload of the series from Bernstein. I wanted to watch them like 5 years ago but it was too expensive for me to buy. I am so happy to find it on youtube. Thank you.
Leonard Bernstein What an amazingly wonderful human being!!! I have always admired his musical talent ~ from conducting to composing ~ but, that he was such an utter smart, knowledgeable man, I had no idea of. How lucky are we, that he was generous enough to share all this wisdom with us. How generous of you "cagin" to share it with us. Thank you!!!!!
Hearing the breakdown and analysis of the chromaticism in Mozart's 40th was quite enlightening and thoroughly fascinating. The man was no doubt a genius of his time. There's a lot to be learned from all these great composers of yesteryear. We modern-day musicians should be thankful we get to be students of such great men.
I took music in junior high and high school between 1967 and '73 (in the US), and I must say I don't recall it ever being at all sophisticated. I wish now it had been taught better then (rather than as a fluff "elective course" or "extracurricular activity"), since it might have inspired me to become a serious student of music, and maybe even a professional musician. I wish we had had a music teacher half as brilliant as Bernstein at my school ... my life might have been very different....
Wow, so there was supposedly a copyrighted piece of music in this lecture, so the entire nearly 2 hour lecture is now muted on TH-cam? Seems like a good reason to render this resource completely ineffective.
Thanks so much for posting this. The music education of music in this country has fallen quite a bit since this was aired. Finally to hear Lennie's depth of understanding is wonderful.
@cagin Just a humble music fan saying thanks a lot! I only just discovered and began listening to Bernstein's "What Is Jazz" which actually had me jumping out of my chair and running around the room at a particular point! I'm very grateful to find his lectures available on here. Looking forward to more musical revelations!
This is such a joy to be able to experience. A 1000 times thank you @cagin. 510 views in 6 weeks. Not the millions who watch reality TV or a cat "playing" the piano, but food for creative thought and great inspiration to some of us. And what a joy to see the Boston Symphony at this era--with the great clarinetist Harold Wright.
@cagin, you're going right into my youtube hall of fame for this. Thank you so very much! Grazie mille! Vielen dank! Merci beaucoup! ¡Muchísimas gracias!
Thanks. Just his speaking voice is worth the time. Did you ever see here on YT, "Lauren Bacall sings at Bernstein's 70th birthday" A wonderful parody that the pokes nice fun at the maestro. He loved it. You will too.
If I could add my two cents to this amazing lecture... Bernstein says when you superpose 12 fifths, you get the chromatic scale. And also, when you superpose five perfect fifths, you have a pentatonic scale. When you superpose seven fifths, you have a diatonic scale. The circle of fifths is such a perfection of nature!
The demonstration using the sympathetic piano string vibrations, as well as being cool as hell, finally helped me understand what the harmonic series is. Thanks for posting this!
I remember that I've seen a video of his 70th b.d. but not particularly that part you mentioned. Now I am checking for it & thanks for the recommendation.
If you listen to Poulenc's Sinfonietta, you will hear a lot of nursery rhymes woven into the score, hence the overall theme of the composition per the composer "Farewell to Youth."
Thanks for uploading this in great picture quality and pristine sound! I learnt something new. btw, it dawned on me that the famous DSCH motiv of Shostakovich is also another permutation of the 4-note Copland motto. :)
He was fawned over as a child but had middle of the road success in adulthood with diminishing results as he moved closer to his death at 35. In some cities like Prague, he was still an A-Lister but in Vienna he had moved down the ladder quite a few notches; the Viennese audiences still clamored for the simpler pleasantries of Paisiello and Cimarosa.
I got them same 4 notes in a film music demo i made for a King Kong fight scene on my channel.I was riffing on guitar off the harmonic minor scale when i came across a 1 Bar of music riff i really enjoyed because it sounded dark.I harmonized it between 2 Minor Maj 7th chords so its not in any key.Then over 2 weeks i built that bar of music into a minute and a half in duration.As soon as he played them 4 notes on the piano i sat up and said i know that sound.Like he said must be a primal thing.
Oh.. I like this.Barry Harris teaches a lot of this stuff in his Master classes and even goes on to explain that the original scale was a 14 note scale. But that was left for us to decipher. You should check out 'bebop' as a genre, it is the continuation of classical music.
A «forma» que cada um em seu lugar a revela, é que é fruto dessa mesma diversidade receptiva que cada um, em cada um dos seus lugares diferentes, é. Obviamente, sendo lugares e tempos diferentes, a conexão é uma memória conectiva em que você, neste caso, recebe e descodifica. Aprecie isso. Essa é a beleza da música e da fenomenologia fónica. Abraço e tudo de bom.
@maxreger100 I am happy that u enjoyed it. No need to count what others watch and for how many times. (still might me interesting to check the most watched video in youtube, amazing ! :) ) Lenny was a great man. His approach to things are enlightening.
it's 'Chomskyan' and refers to Noam Chomsky, born in 1928, who is an American linguist and political theorist who revolutionized the study of language with his theory of generative grammar, set forth in 'Syntactic Structures' (1957).
@madlovba2 ur welcome, i agree about his genius. He starts to talk about a certain piece of music and connects it to many other disciplines so easily and naturally and moreover, concretely. Enjoy !
“You don't sell music. You share it”
- Leonard Bernstein
I am so lucky come across to this master’s lectures ! Very excited, thanks!
THANK YOU...!!! forever Leonard Bernstein = unbelievable all on TH-cam...i'm like a kid in a candy store...
Well...I was also struck by the clarity of his lecture and the way he talks. I checked out lectures to audiences right before a concert, and he just has the gift of speaking-like a book.
It's incredible. Inevitably, the guy read a lot. It is said his house all his walls were full of books and he didn't sleep much because he read all night. So with that in mind, I believe he knew all this stuff so well that he didn't really memorize, but he just knew it.
Can't get more unanswered than that.
If only this was shown to us in secondary school. What an enlightening, inspiring and diligent video. May your workings live on forever Bernstein, and to those who inspired him.
This is a great video. Thank you for uploading these lectures.
It wasn't enough for me to know that I could watch them anytime I want - for free, no less - here on TH-cam. After seeing them all, I purchased the entire series on Amazon because I just had to OWN them! Definitely worth supporting in that way. One of my most cherished DVD collections! :)
Greta teacher and great artist !
Thank you for posting these lectures, thank Mr. Bernstein for caring enough to share his thoughts with us, and thank The Almighty for Mr. Bernstein.
Brilliant! Thank you so much for uploading!
Thanks for posting this. This probably my 5th time watching all of them
Honestly, who came across this brilliant series and had the audacity to dislike it?
i cannot believe this has been posted. hours of fun and intrigue await me
Thank you so much for uploading this, I haven't seen it for decades and always remembered it as a high point of television.
If not me, someone else would do it but had Bernstein not done, no one else could do these lectures. We owe so much to him, for his recordings, for his podium grandeur, for his music, for his wisdom.
Thank you for you comment and your welcome, enjoy, best :)
Wow what a treasure. I got Bernstein's *Findings* from Amazon and I can't wait to read that.
I am so grateful for your upload of the series from Bernstein. I wanted to watch them like 5 years ago but it was too expensive for me to buy. I am so happy to find it on youtube. Thank you.
Simply amazing!!..Thank you!!
Leonard Bernstein
What an amazingly wonderful human being!!! I have always admired his musical talent ~ from conducting to composing ~ but, that he was such an utter smart, knowledgeable man, I had no idea of. How lucky are we, that he was generous enough to share all this wisdom with us. How generous of you "cagin" to share it with us.
Thank you!!!!!
Wow, I can sit and listen to him all day! Thank you so much!
Hearing the breakdown and analysis of the chromaticism in Mozart's 40th was quite enlightening and thoroughly fascinating. The man was no doubt a genius of his time. There's a lot to be learned from all these great composers of yesteryear. We modern-day musicians should be thankful we get to be students of such great men.
What a master teacher this man was- thanks again for posting!
It is just amazing to be able to see this lectures. Thanks so much!
What a fascinating and wonderful lecture. So much knowledge and wisdom to hope to absorb.
Thanks for posting these, haven't seen since high school music theory class. Bernstein was such a great speaker.
This are amazing lectures !!
All of his lectures are so fascinating!
I am not a great supporter of Copyright issues but admired your attitude. I would do the same, it is worth to be bought ! Best !
I´ve been searching for this series a long, long time. Thank you so much, cagin.
I took music in junior high and high school between 1967 and '73 (in the US), and I must say I don't recall it ever being at all sophisticated. I wish now it had been taught better then (rather than as a fluff "elective course" or "extracurricular activity"), since it might have inspired me to become a serious student of music, and maybe even a professional musician. I wish we had had a music teacher half as brilliant as Bernstein at my school ... my life might have been very different....
Thank you for uploading these. A very generous gift for all to enjoy!
so grateful you have shared this with the yt community. This had me deep
I am grateful for your kind comment. Enjoy, best!
Wow, so there was supposedly a copyrighted piece of music in this lecture, so the entire nearly 2 hour lecture is now muted on TH-cam? Seems like a good reason to render this resource completely ineffective.
Thank you dear Mr. Bernstein. I love you!
i can't believe you uploaded the whole thing. you're the greatest.
Thanks so much for posting this. The music education of music in this country has fallen quite a bit since this was aired. Finally to hear Lennie's depth of understanding is wonderful.
Wow, I remember when this was broadcast. Never thought I'd see it again. Many thanks.
Thank you so much for posting. This is beyond wonderful.
thank you so much for posting this! I have been waiting all these years to see these again...I am thrilled!
@cagin Just a humble music fan saying thanks a lot! I only just discovered and began listening to Bernstein's "What Is Jazz" which actually had me jumping out of my chair and running around the room at a particular point! I'm very grateful to find his lectures available on here. Looking forward to more musical revelations!
jeromesims you are welcome, enjoy, best!
This is such a joy to be able to experience. A 1000 times thank you @cagin.
510 views in 6 weeks. Not the millions who watch reality TV or a cat "playing" the piano, but food for creative thought and great inspiration to some of us.
And what a joy to see the Boston Symphony at this era--with the great clarinetist Harold Wright.
Thank-you for these uploads!
Absolutely fantastic. To join the chorus, thank you for uploading this.
Google, please remember the 'don't be evil' in your motto and restore this.
they were muting musicians that played their own pieces (!!!) for a while now. Ridicilous
@cagin, you're going right into my youtube hall of fame for this. Thank you so very much! Grazie mille! Vielen dank! Merci beaucoup! ¡Muchísimas gracias!
@cagin You're my hero for uploading this! Can't thank you enough! :-)
Damn there goes my evening! ;-)
Wonderful to hear about the importance of cross-disciplines. ''The best way to know a thing is in the context of another discipline!'
THANK YOU for posting and sharing these lectures with us!!! It has been years of anxious waiting :) Muchas Gracias!!!!!
can't thank you enough for posting!!!!
Can't wait to see the film.
this is a treasure. amazing. thanks for sharing this.
You are the most wonderful person ever for uploading these. All of these! I LOVE YOU.
Can hardly wait to find time to listen to the complete series of this amazing share of yours! Am thanking you already in advance ;o)
Thank you so much!! This is incredible! Greeteings from Costa Rica!
A brilliant lecture Bernstein, thanks a lot!
Wonderful upload, thank you!
Thank you so much for uploading these
Absolutely wonderful lecture. Not to mention Mozart's incredible music to finish. Thanks for posting.
Thanks. Just his speaking voice is worth the time. Did you ever see here on YT, "Lauren Bacall sings at Bernstein's 70th birthday" A wonderful parody that the pokes nice fun at the maestro. He loved it. You will too.
Simply fantastic. Genius.
Thank you so much.
This is a fantastic upload!
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for uploading
Bravo! Great upload, thanks.
Where curiosity and brilliance and elegance meet musical understanding, there is Leonard Bernstein.
Awesome, thanks for posting!
If I could add my two cents to this amazing lecture... Bernstein says when you superpose 12 fifths, you get the chromatic scale. And also, when you superpose five perfect fifths, you have a pentatonic scale. When you superpose seven fifths, you have a diatonic scale. The circle of fifths is such a perfection of nature!
What an incredible man. The world lost a lot when he died.
Wow inspires me everytime i hear it
Thanks for trying to get the sound back.
The other lectures are Awesome.
I will check back !!!
The demonstration using the sympathetic piano string vibrations, as well as being cool as hell, finally helped me understand what the harmonic series is. Thanks for posting this!
Excellent!
I had no idea, this is very cool. Thanks for sharing it!
please get the track back! thanks for your efforts, this is too great of a lecture
I love what happens around 54 minutes in when he is talking about the circle of 5ths..........he is so expressive!
He is so eloquent! I could listen to him all day. He speaks in music. hahaha
Already watched it Loe ! Thanks for the share, was so fun :)
I remember that I've seen a video of his 70th b.d. but not particularly that part you mentioned. Now I am checking for it & thanks for the recommendation.
If you listen to Poulenc's Sinfonietta, you will hear a lot of nursery rhymes woven into the score, hence the overall theme of the composition per the composer "Farewell to Youth."
Thank you so much! :))
Genius. More, please. More minds. More humans.
Thanks for uploading this in great picture quality and pristine sound! I learnt something new. btw, it dawned on me that the famous DSCH motiv of Shostakovich is also another permutation of the 4-note Copland motto. :)
He was fawned over as a child but had middle of the road success in adulthood with diminishing results as he moved closer to his death at 35. In some cities like Prague, he was still an A-Lister but in Vienna he had moved down the ladder quite a few notches; the Viennese audiences still clamored for the simpler pleasantries of Paisiello and Cimarosa.
lOVe when he hiits the piano and says AAUUU
Anyone remember watching Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts on CBS 1958-1972?
Thank you, thank you, thank you @cagin!!!!!
I got them same 4 notes in a film music demo i made for a King Kong fight scene on my channel.I was riffing on guitar off the harmonic minor scale when i came across a 1 Bar of music riff i really enjoyed because it sounded dark.I harmonized it between 2 Minor Maj 7th chords so its not in any key.Then over 2 weeks i built that bar of music into a minute and a half in duration.As soon as he played them 4 notes on the piano i sat up and said i know that sound.Like he said must be a primal thing.
Oh.. I like this.Barry Harris teaches a lot of this stuff in his Master classes and even goes on to explain that the original scale was a 14 note scale. But that was left for us to decipher. You should check out 'bebop' as a genre, it is the continuation of classical music.
Really reminds me of "Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song"
A «forma» que cada um em seu lugar a revela, é que é fruto dessa mesma diversidade receptiva que cada um, em cada um dos seus lugares diferentes, é. Obviamente, sendo lugares e tempos diferentes, a conexão é uma memória conectiva em que você, neste caso, recebe e descodifica. Aprecie isso. Essa é a beleza da música e da fenomenologia fónica. Abraço e tudo de bom.
@maxreger100
I am happy that u enjoyed it. No need to count what others watch and for how many times. (still might me interesting to check the most watched video in youtube, amazing ! :) )
Lenny was a great man. His approach to things are enlightening.
i put them all in one playlist on my channel. thank you @cagin for posting!
Simply fantastic. I'll have to translate it if I can't find it with subtitles.
it's 'Chomskyan' and refers to Noam Chomsky, born in 1928, who is an
American linguist and political theorist who revolutionized the study of language with his theory of generative grammar, set forth in 'Syntactic Structures' (1957).
I am so much flattered with your comment, your welcome. I am happy that you enjoyed them. Best !
@madlovba2 ur welcome, i agree about his genius. He starts to talk about a certain piece of music and connects it to many other disciplines so easily and naturally and moreover, concretely. Enjoy !
You are welcome and thank you for ur comment. Actually, it changes my mind every time I check even a part of it. Enlightening Bernstein.
Thank you very much, I am flattered with ur comment, ur welcome, enjoy, best !