How Yannick Nézet-Séguin taught Bradley Cooper to conduct like Bernstein | Classic FM
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- Can ‘Maestro’ star Bradley Cooper actually conduct? Leading orchestral and opera conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin tells Classic FM what it was like to teach the Hollywood actor and work as conducting consultant on the Leonard Bernstein biopic ‘Maestro’.
He reveals he thinks Cooper is a natural, who he’d welcome Bradley Cooper to guest conduct his orchestra any time.
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As a conductor who makes videos about our profession I am so excited about this movie making more people curious about classical music and conducting, can't wait to see it!
Already has for me, and it ain’t even out yet
I saw it. Cooper does a great job! ❤
Just discovered thanks to this video and your comment and so your yt channel... Great!
@yvonneplant9434 He made it very easy to believe it was Bernstein we were watching, not Bradley Cooper. It's not often that an actor can disappear into a role.
I don’t suppose you wear black nail polish? 😢
This is a beautiful video. I really appreciated Maestro Nézet-Séguin’s commentary, both on the technical side of bringing the conducting to life in the movie, and on the portrayal of the pain of living as a non-straight person during the time period. The movie moved me to tears and so did this video!
Yannick said, "I'd welcome [Bradley] to guest conduct in Philadelphia anytime." Wow. Just...wow. What a compliment.
To be fair, the Philadelphia Orchestra could play most of the standard repertoire pretty convincingly without a conductor.
To be fair, Yannick gave a cute and ironic chuckle after that statement of invitation. Come on....
@@ericdaniel323
From Wedding Crashers villain to this. What a career.
He's amazing for sure
Nearly twenty years in Hollywood brings opportunities.
Bradley Cooper waa in the tv show Alias.
That scene of Cooper conducting, blew my mind. It was magnificent.
I have never seen and felt a scene in a movie with that much intensity.
It's probably, for me, the most wonderful scene I've seen in a movie.
He was actually conducting that orchestra. It was beautifully done.
Cooper deserves an Oscar for sure as well as Carey Mulligan.
And the movie itself.
I have to watch it again.
For sure! Nothing else in that movie mattered to me after that.
Horrendous conducting, Cooper learned nothing from Yannick...the conducting scene was almost painful to watch and 0 Match with the Real Bernstein...
@@NarehArghamanyanPianist100% agreed
@@NarehArghamanyanPianistso true! I couldn’t stop laughing!
He looked like a deranged clown. He's just a very bad actor. And director
The ending of Mahler s Resurrection Symphony is so emotional. Bradley Cooper nailed it !!!
Bernstein always conducted as if he had written the music. His perfect understanding of the music and his emotional approach to it transferred directly to the orchestra, and some of the greatest performances of classical music were made under his baton.
“Silence is music” great quote!
John Cage already in 1952...
Debussy, Pelleas et Melisande
@@LinusCello75mozart already
Thanks for this video! Maestro Yannick N-S is such a wonderful musician, a great Maestro - and a lovely person! I watch him at the MET OPERA in HD in the cinema! How interesting is this description of his coaching for Bradley C as L. Bernstein, so warm and full of respect and admiration - what a joy ! ❤
Yannick, congratulations on this opportunity! Love from Philadelphia ❤️
What a brilliant collaboration! Thank you.
I didn't appreciate Bradley Cooper as an actor until I saw his remarkable performance in "Nightmare Alley". I'm looking forward to seeing this!
MAESTRO A MASTERPIECE ON EVERY LEVEL.
The movie was fantastic. Truly enjoyed his stellar performance.
❤Lenny❤ ❤Yannick❤ ❤Bradley❤
What an opportunity for us, the classical musicians, the music.
Thank you very much for giving us these details and, wow, if the musician felt like Lenny was alive, what a honour and dedication. Wonderful!
Whoa!!! This is fabulous!
Cooper grew up in the Phila. area so in a way it made sense to have Yannick do this. 🎉
I've never heard of Mahler until this movie. After seeing the trailer I was so taken by the music they used for is and the power and emotion took me. I watched/listened to Bernstein's conducting of it and it was so powerful and moving. If I was in Cooper's shoes with my mentality I would keep acting as a part time gig and peruse conducting. The emotion and love I would get form the hard work for it to pay off in once performance would be worth it for me. I loved this movie and credit to Cooper for studying conducting to get it as correct but making it his own.
Bradley Cooper has always been my favourite actor, and this movie cements it for me
My mom is a fan of yours Yannick . And I am looking forward to watching the movie . My mom said she watched it twice and she missed some things the first time she watched
brilliant collaboration. now we need a movie of Von Karajan. 🙂
Bravo à Mr Nezet-Séguin! Une fierté pour tous les Québécois.
I saw the movie a couple of days ago and I was skeptical of it at first but I think Bradley Cooper did a great job portraying him. My personal favorite scene was when Bernstein conducted Mahler 2. Yannick happens to be one of my favorite conductors to listen to (I love his recording of Prokofiev 5th Symphony that he did at the BBC Proms that he did in 2012 and his recording of him conducting The Nutcracker Ballet suite with the Rotterdam Philharmonic.
Leonard Bernstein has been my hero ever since I saw "Westside Story." I can't wait to see what Bradley Cooper and an equally talented Carey Mulligan does in this movie.
Spoiler
West Side Story is only in it briefly.
@@yvonneplant9434BUT the only time I’ve ever heard the prologue outside of the musical itself, AND used in such a way as to juxtapose what’s happening on screen. Brilliantly done!!
WOW!! Thank you for sharing your heart with every comment on this amazing film… ❤️
You are sweet and sensitive and I am so happy that you were a part of this film, because I listen to you and I can fell your emotions of excitement about Bradley performance ❤️
Thanks again for sharing
Happy you live now on these days when everything is so different
That scene at the park,,, I felt the same and I barely could hold my tears 😔
Anyone else watch his concerts for children in the sixties. My mother insisted we did.
Le Québec est fier de toi Yannick! J'ai très hâte de voir le film! Bravo !😀👌
wow ... what a wonderful commentary ... THANK YOU CLASSIC FM ... thank you Yannick ...
LB had a choreography to his conducting ... profoundly, passionately emphatically, emotionally, demonstratively expressive, and utterly distinctive. I thought any attempt to perform it would only be mimicry or impersonation. But Mr. Cooper somehow found a spiritual connection, showcased the monumental artistic motivation of every gesture, and honored the soul of Maestro Bernstein. I was unprepared for what I saw, and was left shattered and weeping. Six minutes of the most unvarnished emotion and intensely alive performances in cinematic history. Utterly unforgettable. I sense Bradley believed Leonard not only reached for the stars, but may have occasionally touched one, and did everything humanly possible to prepare to desperately steal that possibility for himself. And.He.Did. For a moment, he stood in the center of the sun. Blinding genius. Absolute triumph.
Bravo Maestro Duo !!! ''L'importance du silence dans la musique, ''c'est beau ça !
I look forward to seeing this movie. Many years ago in Montreal I saw YNS conduct L’Orchestre Métropolitain a few times and it was always so inspiring. Don't know which I enjoyed better; the symphony or the joy in his conducting. Bravo!
We are so lucky to continue to have Yannick conduct the Phila. Orch. ❤
I cried when Muti left. Yannick helped erase that tremendous lose.
I think you completely accomplished what you set out to do. The main thing he mastered was getting into the zone and staying there, committed to the energy and the emotion. Pretty much everyone who understands the picture is weeping during that five minutes. I would say, perfect or imperfect, at the end of the day moving people is what we mean to do, and you helped him to accomplish this.
Bravo, Maestro Yannick!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I can’t wait to see this movie. Thank you for helping to make it happen.
What a wonderful video! Can’t wait to see the movie. Thanks so much!!
Félicitations Yannick; j'ai très hâte de voir le film. Ton video est excellent!!💕
Inspiring. I can't wait to see the movie.
Thank you for greatful help
Brilliant movie
A great conductor to learn from.❤😊
Excellent travail Yannick, on t’adore! ❤
What an awesome take to an amazing movie. Congrats 🎉👏
Yannick Nezet-Seguin is a wonderful conductor. Curious why Cooper didn’t ask Marin Alsop who knows Bernstein better than anyone. Unless she wasn’t available.
Cooper is from Philadelphia, and Yannick directs the Philadelphia orchestra. Pretty sure that’s the connection
He probably needed a man conductor and also someone physical like Yannick Nezet-Seguin when he conducts. Marin Alsop could have been useful because she worked with Bernstein and obviously knew him well. But I’m not sure she could’ve shown him how he physically conducted. But I may be wrong.
I wonder if Marin is burnt out with the movie world after she felt misled and slighted after consulting on, “Tár.”
@@NMC21887 Maybe. But I think the feeling of Cooper for Nézet-Séguin was stronger.
YNS said at the beginning that beginning of the video that Cooper had done years of research, watching other conductors, watching film, etc etc, and when he met YNS they just clicked, understood each other, and got along well. That's why.
Many of the comments on this video bring back memories of the four years spent earning an undergraduate degree in music - the rantings of twenty-somethings. 😂
The movie is an 'entertainment'! If one out of a hundred people who see it take an interest in Bernstein or Mahler and explore their music further, bonus!
If you have a talented and determined the pupil, you can teach somebody to conduct quite a few minutes of music in a particular style. Cooper watched what Bernstein did and then did what Bernetein did. Cooper did what Yannick told him to do. Sometimes in real time using an earpiece, Cooper was told to keep hands higher or lower, or looking in a particular direction. That doesn't make him a conductor, it means he's an excellent actor. I think Cooper has an aptitude for music and possibly for conducting. Maybe he would learn it easily. But learning to conduct rather than to adapt and adopt a particular example, takes depth, breadth, time, and practice.
But.... can he read a score?
This is true, nevertheless, it’s wonderful he went that deep to do this. And I’m happy he got to do this. He got a chance to really appreciate how much work this takes.
@mozartsbumbumsrus7750 If you google 'classic fm bradley cooper', you'll find the answer is probably yes.
Too low, too often.
"the abandon that Bernstein had.." ah yes...I remember it well!! Blessed to have attended several of the Young People series.....
W.C.? ‘Ah yes, I remember it well.’
I love this guy (the conductor)!
I am paraphrasing, but this exchange describes Bernstein.
“Maestro, you’ve just been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom,” “Maestro, the Prime Minister of Israel wants to recognize you with a gala concert,” “Maestro, the television crew is here to begin your Profile.”
Bernstein: “I’M A FORGOTTEN MAN!”
Lovely words
My gosh, just listening to his first sentence and I could tell right away that he's French Canadian.
Great video.
Bravo!
See Lenny on what it really takes to become a conductor-his lessons with Reiner, etc etc etc
I love this
A masterpiece. I watched "Maestro" today at Playhouse Cinema in Hamilton. Appreciated Bernstein's music throughout. Congratulations Yannick! I felt emotion of music. Bradley Cooper's authentic portrayal is a wonder.
Thank you.
I enjoyed listening to Yannick discuss the technique. Cooper fully captured the gestures and mannerisms of Bernstein, but during the Mahler 2 scene, his technique at times showed that he is not a classically trained conductor. I don’t think that is a notch on Cooper. Just a nod to Bernstein’s greatness. That he was able to fully convey emotion through convincing technique. Great performance
Simply beautiful ❤️
Bravo maestro yannick!
So if an expert conductor would watch that scene would they deduce that cooper was indeed conducting the music or would they see him as someone simply reacting TO the music?
It sounds like he was conducting but he had to conduct it as if he were someone else.
That’s a mindfuck right there
If the finale of Mahler’s 8th Symphony is featured in this film, I will see it in a real theatre!
We will see Cooper conducting a large piece somewhere. He won’t just let that entire education go fallow. I hope.
fascinating!
Saul really knows his music
Classical conductor with punk nail polish. Black is back ! 🤘🏼
I wondered what the deal was with the nail polish. A bit much.
Un film sur Bernstein avec Cooper…wow! J’ai bien hâte de le voir!!! Bravo à Yannick!
I have played Mahler 2 and have been a musician for many years. Unfortunately the movements in the clips we got so far do not fit what is happening in the music so far… will wait to see the end result though. Not convinced so far 😅
neat conducting is so hard to fake as an actor
Cooper is amazing and I wish he would portray Wagner. It would be amazing.
Yes, with Michael Fassbender playing Liszt, his father in law!
I disagree. There is the whole anti-Semitic aspect of Wagner’s life story. Stay away. Not that a man who died in 1883 had anything to do with the Nazis, but now is not the time.
@brucekuehn4031 Yeah I agree. I'm not normally for the idea of blackballing composers based on the views they held hundreds of years ago, but Wagner actually wrote critically about "Jewishness in Music". Yikes. So while he's an interesting figure, perhaps he is not fit to be the main character of a film. Would be an interesting supporting character in a film about Liszt! (e.g., Liszt's premonition of Wagner's death and the composition of La Lugubre Gondola)
@@tekraynak you know there are also films about bad people right
I hope the movie show LB holding the baton tight with both hands, that is the minimum the flick’s got to have.
Yes it does! I saw it last night. You’ll love it.
I kept watching for him to come down from the ceiling with the stick in both hands like LB. Inspired old ladies to get out their checkbooks.@@danielgloverpiano7693
This is not a biopic as it is not about his whole life; just about the relationship with his wife.
Dave Hurwitz must see this and bring one of his scarfs along. Lol.
Dave puts lenny high on the list of best mahler conductors but not the pinnacle
It's curious to me that a novice conductor, such as Bradley Cooper, or Gilbert Kaplan, can tackle a work of this scale (Mahler 2) and pull it off - that the baton of Bradley Cooper can put him on the same playing field as Bruno Walter, or Claudio Abbado, or Leonard Bernstein. Granted, Cooper, as far as we know, concentrated only on the closing minutes, still, it makes me wonder if one of the many miracles of this piece is that it has the ability to, in effect, direct itself to that glorious finale.
Lol, he wasn't actually conducting. It's a performance. Yannick would have actually conducted the orchestra. Cooper would step in to get the shots.
Maybe, but according to some of the panel interviews I've seen, from Cooper's own mouth, Cooper actually 'conducted' (although under the guidance of Yannick), he wasn't just a stand-in for the close shots. He led the orchestra through complete takes of the final 6+ minutes of the piece (for better or worse). @@TheDemonicPenguin
Being a conductor demands a whole career, just moving the bqton is probably the 5% of it. I know that throughout the history of cinema all actor that conduct used to do it wrong or amateurish, just like actors imitating opera singers. I believe Bradley will break that cycle considering the dedicated work he has done.
@@TheDemonicPenguinNo, that's not true. In several news articles and interviews, Bradley Cooper stated that he himself conducted those last 6 minutes of the Mahler symphony. This might be unique in the history of film, but the music you hear in that scene was not recorded in a sperate sound studio and sound mixed into the scene later (like is usually done in movies) . That is the real London Symphony Orchestra, in the real Cathedral in England where Bernstein recorded it. What you see in that scene is a real live performance recorded on film, with Bradley himself conducting, and that's what you see and hear in the movie.
Beasley cooper is an actor! Let’s not get emotional here !
Interessting
Zach Galifianakis needs to conduct 😆😉
He rewarded himself by going to Vegas with three of his buddies
A Hangover callback!
Imagine if they made a movie on Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninov omg or Liszt.!!!
Why not a proper movie on Mahler
Yes 🙌
Cooper is more convincing as a conductor than Seguin!😂😂😂😂
😂 Hush.
I like him.
Clearly, you’ve not seen YNS conduct Bruckner 8th. The most memorable concert for me in the last umpteen years. Yannick, I’ve followed since he was a young tyke; been a groupie; have seen him in Sydney, Munich, Philadelphia, New York. And absolutely thrilled and not at all surprised that he’s done so amazingly well.
As MasterThespian used to say: "Acting!" Bradley Cooper inhabited the role completely. YNS provided the insight behind the gestures that made Cooper 'convincing' as Bernstein, the conductor.
I disagree. His Mahler scene was completely unconvincing to me
Why I'm skeptical of actors of conductors, say Tar. From the clips already skeptical....
Conducting is a embodied expression of the music itself, in all it's internal tension, the pulse, the direction. In fact, most professional conductors fail to express themselves in line with the music, might as well be a waving metronome... This goes for musicians as well.
In these biopics of conductors, it is a representation of a representation, a mimicry of mimicry of the Dionysian world of wills than the actual will itself. Might be easier just to teach a conductor how to act.
High hopes but also high bar for the Bernstein Biopic...
Bravo Yannick 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I think the elb Philharmonie in Hamburg wäre auch der Hintergrund gewesen. Obwohl sich diese in deutschland befindet. Aber ich glaube auch dieser Ort hätte bernstein in seinem Schaffen gewürdigt. In seiner Tätigkeit als Dirigent und Chronist für vieles. Auch bradley hätte hier seinen Erfolg feiern können. America ist nicht die Welt der Akteure. Das zeigen uns die oscar Nominierungen. Und es werden immer mehr. Danke für die aufmerksamkeir
Cooper looks like a wooden, disconnected, comically-theatralic dancer in this movie, but conductor….. ?
One might think conducting is a part time job considering how many posts he is holding.
It's ludicrous that orchestra managers and cities, who pay for that, put up with that. He is far from the only conductor who has multiple posts but this is really getting out of hand. Instead of staying with one orchestra and forming it like Ormandy did with Philly for decades, or Karajan with Berlin, the modern conducting star spreads himself as far as possible, only lessening the impact their work has on the orchestras.
Welcome to freelancing life? I wish the world at large were better at treating artists with respect and pay accordingly but that's not the world live in.
Not really a problem for these kinds of posts.
Nézet-Séguin made 1.6 Million in Philly in 2019, and $915.500 at the Met in 2021.
I'm sure the poor man is barely making ends meet.@@jenniferhiemstra5228
Maybe in the smaller regional orchestras there is more community involvement. One of the other roles the top person has is fundraising. Sitting with old ladies for coffee is not conducting, but charming donors is part of the job too.
Focus on music
I tu ste morali zagaditi svojim nastranostima
Terrific mimicry tho.
Wie könnte professionellen Dirigent nicht verstehen das gerade bei solchen Filmen wie dieser wird das wahre echtes Bild vom einen der großen Musiker des 20 Jahrhundert zerstört werden. Bernstein war in erster Reihe großer Musiker nicht Schauspieler. Großen Schauspieler anstatt Dirigenten haben ziemlich viel in unserer Zeit. Ein gutes Orkestr kann
schon ohne einen Dirigent spielen. Bredey Cooper könnte viele besserer Dirigent sein als viele andere in unserer Zeit !
Por Dios santo: si no le enseñó nada.
What is he wearing? Looks like a baseball jacket.
yea seems to be a baseball jacket
Real conductors do not just emote and embody the moment, they hold a tension in their body and mind that comes from needing to lead the orchestra, keep them together, and compel them to artistic brilliance - and that tension is what to me seems lacking in Cooper’s performance.
Real conductors embody a degree of terror and relief, not just artistry
Pained nails on a man. Pass
Homophobia and Christianity. Pass. Two evils. Christianity has killed more humans than any other belief system.
The black fingernails were too distracting. I had to re-start the video 3 times before I could hear what this man was saying.
I thought Cooper looked ludicrous as a "conductor". Hard to imitate Bernstein, no doubt. But still looked terrible. Just my opinion.
as a former singer with SF symphony and Philadephia Philharmonic and having sung the Mahler--i thought this was very pooly done--way too over-conducted and it's off tempo!
Excited for the movie yes, but Nézet-Séguin can't teach anyone to conduct like Bernstein, when he's a bad conductor himself.
He listed all his credentials before anything else.
@@TenTenJ Credentials don’t mean much. You can come from the best school, get hired by the most prestigious organisations and still be bad. There’s more than enough examples of this since the beginning of the music industry. It’s a poor argument. Nézet-Séguin makes the most amateurish mistakes and cannot conduct properly. If one studies the historical conducting practice, especially of operas, one will see this.
@@KajiVocals I was referring to his reliance on that by leading the entire delivery wuth it. Just your point.
Fyi, this whole video is a lie. It's actually YNS's choral conductor that did most of the coaching. I know someone who was actually there.
Nezet Seguin is so incredibly full of himself. If he’s in the pit I cringe. Everything about him screams “look at me look at me” - gross.
Tired of bull
That dark red nail polish has to go, its ridicules, sad to see Met's conductor with red nail polish.
Oh, it’s that utterly overrated conductor again, who only got to where he is thanks to the Desmarais fortune.
Don’t you just love his fingernail polish color? When you give your rear end to the audience, you have to have something that glitters!