I've known many a professor over the years who could do this similarly. You spend enough days teaching people, repeating the same concepts again and again until you've whittled down the words and phrases just how you like them, and you'd be surprised how eloquent you suddenly become. Bernstein was also a conductor, so he had to spend a good amount of time showing competence and confidence and a highly professional level, in front of a room of professionals, for hours at a time. All those skills and all that material was further honed for this particular video, which was meant for a Harvard audience with higher standards. The real shame is that you don't see stuff like this as often simply because there's either a greater emphasis on packaging education as entertainment or putting it behind a paywall or tuition fee. Often the latter requires that they don't record it at all, otherwise anyone could get a full Juliard education from youtube alone. I mean, you _can,_ but you'll have a harder time knowing whether the information you're getting is actually genuine and thorough. Even this video from Bernstein is just a tiny taste of the depths of understanding music theory.
The performance itself was interrupted by a bomb scare, when Bernstein himself was conducting the "universality of mankind". He was devastated and destroyed, but his faith "DOUBLED"; especially when the audience stayed and reinforced this universality.
I was fortunate enough to play under his baton on a few occasions, and to speak with him. The greatest mind and the greatest talent I have ever encountered.
This is like the musical equivalent of Carl Sagan. Also, while his linguistic speculations aren´t very up-to-date with current science: "I claim the right to be wrong" is simply beautiful.
Please extrapolate how it is not up to date? Chomsky's idea (theoretical continuance) of innate linguistical ability is still unsurpassed? And that's what Bernstein heralds here. Opposing theories / ideas like those put forth by messrs Pinker at al have failed.
"I claim the right to be wrong" sounds like an extract from Neil DeGrasse Tyson's benediction at the end of his Cosmos remake. The mark of intellectual integrity is this sort of modesty.
I watch Bernstein and he seems to be speaking without notes, speaking so fluently and fluidly, without "ums" or 'you knows". I am struck by what a seasoned performed/actor he is. How he engages the audience - and the camera - with such a warmth and friendly manner. He admits to being "petrified" which seems honest and also he has the strength to be vulnerable. What an excellent speaker. How brilliant and appealing. I love his handsome appearance, his crimson tie, and his appealing deep voice. His knowledge is extraordinary. In these troubled times, it comforts me so much to watch this and other LB videos. I'm grateful to Bradley Cooper and all the creators of "Maestro" that have brought Bernstein again to new world attention and to new generations as well as the older ones.
Seeing a lot of "western culture doesn't produce people like this anymore". I would say, very brilliant minds do still exist, but pop culture is less tolerant of deep, nuanced ideas, so they are not broadcast as widely. One modern example (among countless) is Robert Sapolsky - a king of modern scientific communication, but unheard of in the mainstream. In some ways, we are seeing a return of nuance, e.g. with the meteoric rise in long-form interview/documentary podcasts and semi-academic video-essay youtube channels. Just enjoy these lectures and propagate the intrigue and passion that they invoke within you.
Thanks to your recommendation I watch his talk on disproving free will. It is a profound lecture. Thank your for introducing a gaint on which shoulder I could stand.
These six lectures constitute a highly important document in musical aesthetics by a great musician of the 20th century. I read the book by the same name which is a transcript of these lectures, but there is nothing like seeing them. Bernstein's immense talent, his passion for communicating the essences of music and it's place in the larger 'art' world, and his musicianship, which is total, are all on full display here. These lectures, along with their embedded concerts, are twelve or so hours well-spent for any musician, music lover, and all thinkers in aesthetics and culture. Bravo Lenny, and thank you for sharing your gifts with all of us. You are truly a bright star in the heavens.
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As someone who always struggled with music theory and had a subpar natural ear for pitch intervals - yet still insisted on playing music - this demonstration of the harmonic series, the development/evolution of new harmonics being accepted as tonal... what a beautiful presentation. This made me understand the circle of fifths in an entirely new perspective that charts and articles never could. What a teacher, a true command of his craft and the ability to explain it. RIP Maestro thank you for the enlightenment.
This is what PBS offered up in 1973 when I was 13. It's hard to realise how much higher the bar was not so long ago. It's why I am a jazz pianist/composer.
The early 1970s was the time in which PBS started promoting "Sesame Street", in which kids were portrayed as being street wise, with adults being clowns, buffoons, etc. (Big Bird, etc)
Good for you! Would that PBS would return to its former stature. It’s full of pop, trash and snake oil salesman now. Rarely do we get the well constructed new work- such as an opera, or even a well-staged repertory work. PBS is slacking and peddling junk to the masses. For shame.
A man of extraordinary gifts. Musician, story teller, philosopher, historian, presenter, writer, orator, artist, poet, and painter. Thank you for making such fine material available to someone like me, who had no idea this existed before CZcams made it available to me.
He also would have lived longer if medical research wasn't so controversial. There are actually a lot of scenarios in which he would have lived longer, let's see if we can name all of them. Oh wait, that's a waste of precious time and resources.
I saw the original lectures on TV in the early Seventies. I was spellbound then, and even more so on revisiting them now. As a teacher (of languages) I have never encountered such inspirational teaching. Ever!
"spellbound"... interesting choice of words. That LITERALLY was what happened. Bernstein was not even correct if you see my other comment under tis video. He just enchanted you and others with a hollow fair speech.
His articulation is just off the chart. I've literally had to pause and search the definition of some of the words he says. I admire it and desire to follow in his lead
He can hold the audience in silence and listen patiently in his lecture. I admire his flow of uninterrupted sequencing thoughts on the topic with numerous tangential swings and back to the base. Brilliant.
I'm here before all the people who just recently watched Maestro on Netflix. Fun fact: I've watched the norton lectures something like 3 times in 10 years and it just gets better and better.
2:31 he says uh. Just because someone’s uses um, or ah, or err, in their speech, doesn’t make them bad speakers. It is the content of that speech that matters most.
I made this comment 2 years ago, so I don't remember why I was unimpressed with this blowhard spewing simple concepts using the highly stilted language, and exaggerated articulation, that is so common among those in Classical Music. So I decided to rewatch part of it to see what I was thinking. I'm 18 minutes into it, and it's all hot air. All he has said is that he realized that a small number of well-known compositions had a phrase consisting of the same 4 notes. That's it. I can't waste anymore time relistening, since the lecture is so long, and he could have said what he just said in 18 minutes in about 2 minutes. So let me as you this. If you watched it, what did he conclude about the universal musical language?@@eltiogottlieb.4911
O, how I had almost forgotten the brilliance of this man! Lenny was brilliant not only for what he knew, or what he could demonstrate with an instrument or an orchestra, but also how much information he could convey. I can open my mind like a trash can lid (which it often resembles), and he can simply pour information in like cream.
So much shit comes out of America that it's nice to be reminded that there are some great Americans as well, this guy was brilliant. He does seem to like philosophers I do as well and it's interesting how he works it into music.
I can't press the like button enough times. I'm saddened by the fact that I was born at a time where such wisdom and eloquence has everything but disappeared, but I am also glad that it grants me the technology to witness this 46 year old masterclass I couldn't have witnessed otherwise. Thanks to whoever uploaded this.
I was inducted in Jr high School at 14 to replace a saxaphonist in what was then a pretty high level youth jazz band in my home town. So of course I was struggling with music theory in order to solo better like all jazz musicians when at that hyper impressionable age I stumbled across these lectures on PBS. These lectures faned the flames of what was already a pretty hot fire so that I became so obsessed with the sound of music approaching that tonal precipice that he talks about in later lectures. As a result of this televised musical inquiry I began my own so I naturally became a composer. I am now 63 and I am still a working Jazz Pianist and Composer still engaged with that inquiry.
I want to be like him when I grow up... everything is so smooth and calm that you want to keep listening. my goal now is to be able to give a lecture like this in any chance that I get
THANK YOU for sharing this! I saw this a long time ago on PBS and had not been able to find it for decades. A fascinating discussion from a genius at his peak. These lectures should be considered a "world heritage website" by UNESCO.
I watched the Young People's Concerts as a kid. I loved him then--love him now. His communication skills are amazing. So glad this has been posted. Awaiting Maestro. ☮
This has utterly transformed and blown open my understanding of scales, keys, modulations, diatonic and chromatic control. it's just mind blowing. Freedom at last. Thank you so much for the upload. What a great man Bernstein was.
@@MrTeff999 Because anybody who has taken an interest in the life and musical acumen of Maestro Bernstein knows full well of his battles with amphetamines and alcohol ,also his health battles with emphysma, asthma .and a runny nose caused by sinus conditions which irritated him.
It's so wild to think all these highly skilled musicians (Boston Symphony) went out to their period correct automobiles and drove home to their period correct domiciles spread throughout the Boston area of 1973 and their spouses and families or perhaps hipster single lives or elderly single lives and students. I love looking at audiences from this period as well I can almost see myself out there in those audiences. It was such a different world. The idea of watching this program on a handheld Smart phone while imaginable was pure science fiction. It's kinda sad because people really went to concerts plays jazz clubs lectures museums because culture took work back in my youth.
Phenomenal - thanks for sharing! What a rare combination of a really great lecturer, an amazing musician and a genuine intellectual - how many people could take such a complex topic and explain it to non-musicians so that they actually understand it?? I could listen to him talk about and play music forever!
You have good ears. That is called 'print through' and is the result of the magnetic field of a tape recording imprinting itself on the nearby layers of a reel of tape.
I imagine it being more likely to happen if the tape sits for a long period of time without being played. If so, I now wonder how tape archives protect against the phenomenon.
Thank you so much, I remember these from when they were first broadcast and have talked about them ever since, I will so much enjoy watching again, I love the part about Mozart 40th symphony
I wondered how long he would stay seated in that formidable chair, for no lack of eminent behinds before his own having sat in it. Not a minute into it he is standing & about half a minute later he is seated on the desk. He did mention "occupying" that chair. Then, he frees himself of all that & stands rather alienating himself from the desk except as a support for his papers. Then, he is re-occupying the chair. Then off a few feet away to the piano. This, like his words & musical examples, is rhythmic, highly knowledgable teaching. Love you, Lenny. And may you, finally, rest in peace, aware of how much you have left behind to our immense pleasure, stimulation & gratitude.
1:40:50 I could listen to Lennie talk for hours and hours on end and never get tired of it. He was one of the most eloquent speakers ever, not to mention his being a walking encyclopedia of music - and I don't just mean classical.
Tried to listen this while working as background noise. Stopped being able to concentrate on my work because of how informative and mesmerizing the lecture is. I'm pausing and coming back some other time. Gotta' finish work.
He does command a powerful vocabulary. I consider speaking to be a sort of artform in itself. When humans communicate, one way of describing what's happening is that one person is painting a picture in the mind of the other person. And to do this really well, you need a large vocabulary and the intellectual tools to use it properly. With that, it's easier to communicate complex concepts. But beware. Because when you're behind some famous lecture desk in the hallows halls of Harvard University, you sound intelligent and confident. But when you're on the internet, often you can sound like a pretentious asshat. Being a bit of a pretentious asshat myself, I know from experience.
@@PaulTheSkeptic Agree. No question that L. Bernstein was somewhat arrogant, pompous, and pretentious. However, he was a brilliant intellectual, musician, and composer, and these attributes go with the territory. He was amazingly eloquent. I am just overly impressed with how he kept going with this excellent speech in such an eloquent way for more than one hour as if he was reading a dictation. Few people can do this, certainly not presidents. Simply impressive!
@@jgonz260 I didn't mean to imply that I thought he was arrogant or pompous in any way. In his time and in his skin with his achievements, he can get away with that. I'm saying that I have a tendency to speak like a book. I read a lot. I can see how I can come off as a pretentious asshat in the 21st century and on the internet. It's totally different. No one's going to accuse him or other great speakers, James Baldwin and FDR come to mind, of being pompous. They deserve the respect they get for their intellectual acumen and precise diction. I agree totally. He was very eloquent and I learn a lot when I listen to him.
I've been a Bernstein fan since I was about 10. Used to listen to an LP of Westside Story. Played a solo in marching band in HS - "Somewhere". Took my dad's copy of the LP when I left after college. I can't listen to this piece all at once. There is too much to absorb. I had no idea - what an amazing mind. I'm taking notes when I pause. I'm rarely mentally drained ... but this video makes me need to seek respite in order to appreciate the ideas that follow.
yes, I thought that at first, but have come to the conclusion there is indeed a teleprompter - still, amazing information, and amazingly orated! This is my second time through...!
If any of you haven't noticed there isn't a regular teleprompter, you haven't watched this to the end....and i mean the full lecture. Even after so doing, if you still believe there is, the details have blown over your head. (Un)fortunately. There is actually a "teleprompter" of sorts: in his memory.
He was a composer in training for the New York Philharmonic at the age of 25, I got a feeling this guy obsessed with such thoughts and even if he was using one for this probably didn't need a teleprompter. There are many other interviews with him on You Tube
Bernstein's lectures are, today more than ever, pure unadulterated intelligence! Deep pleasure and constant tension intertwined in a singularly unique, sadly of days gone past, way of embracing complexity. The academic wokes, cancel culture and related "modern" debris should be forced to watch and listen.
I just keep coming back to these lectures. So amazing!I've even started playing the piano because Leonardo inspired me. I'm learning so much every time I watch. They are so deep and thurow. Profoundly edifying. I wish there was more content like this! Thank you for uploading :D
I have seen this lecture series multiple times over the years on CZcams - although it may have been a while since I watched this first lecture until the very end, after the performance itself. I had forgotten and was deeply moved almost to the point of tears at his description of his initial presentation of this in Harvard Yard being interrupted by a bomb scare after the start of the Mozart performance. And this is 1973. Sadly in our current era, this kind of event might be interrupted by an active shooter... These days it is not outside of a real possibility. Yet Bernstein's faith was restored by the music and by the commitment of the audience. I wonder if he would have the same experience with an audience of today.
54:46 Much like a camera’s aperture, or the display of a television, I love how he expresses and demonstrates his point of musical development at the piano. Such a pleasure.
When he brings the music technique into this lecture he really begins to capture my attention. He was brilliant at teaching the complexity of his life work of knowledge. I guess the linguistic stuff was his warmer or opening but his music stuff is amazing
Well, it's the youtuber who decides where to put them, then again this is so precious so I get that they want make money off of it. However, I had 0 ad and you can too if you can add 'Ad block" (a free extension) to your browser, it blocks ALL ads on youtube, unfortunately it only works on computers. Thanks for the heads up because I almost put it on my smart tv, but I can't stand ads especially on a lecture
The video has been on the site for a while, it is therefore very likely it has been claimed by a third party. Once it gets claimed and monetized, the uploader himself has no longer any say in where, what and how many ads the video gets. It's reasonable to assume that this would be the case here, they usually pepper the video heavily with ads, cause you know... corporate shills amirite. Just yeet on AdBlock and stop crying lmao
Damn! Leonard Bernstein was one smart cookie as well as an excellent communicator and conveyor of the understanding of music to the public, even those not enamored with it as he was...
I have never seen a man speak with such eloquence intertwined with confidence and poise.
Rubbed off on u eh
Allan Watts spoke similarly.
I've known many a professor over the years who could do this similarly. You spend enough days teaching people, repeating the same concepts again and again until you've whittled down the words and phrases just how you like them, and you'd be surprised how eloquent you suddenly become. Bernstein was also a conductor, so he had to spend a good amount of time showing competence and confidence and a highly professional level, in front of a room of professionals, for hours at a time. All those skills and all that material was further honed for this particular video, which was meant for a Harvard audience with higher standards.
The real shame is that you don't see stuff like this as often simply because there's either a greater emphasis on packaging education as entertainment or putting it behind a paywall or tuition fee. Often the latter requires that they don't record it at all, otherwise anyone could get a full Juliard education from youtube alone. I mean, you _can,_ but you'll have a harder time knowing whether the information you're getting is actually genuine and thorough. Even this video from Bernstein is just a tiny taste of the depths of understanding music theory.
Check out Glenn Gould
Plus he is never arrogant: that rare event, an admirable man.
The rare moment you are doing the right thing on youtube. watching and thanks to uploader
You are welcome, enjoy, best!
Wow, yeah, I was just thinking that as I'd found and started watching.
When you're finally on the light side of youtube again. lmao.
Three minutes in and one feels to have entered through the portals of highest thought to touch the realms of Heaven.
Or the wrong thing at work lol
It should be illegal to have the explanation of Mozart’s chromaticism interrupted by a milk chocolate advert
The performance itself was interrupted by a bomb scare, when Bernstein himself was conducting the "universality of mankind". He was devastated and destroyed, but his faith "DOUBLED"; especially when the audience stayed and reinforced this universality.
Classical music and commercial TV aren't meant for each other.
@@allenjones3130 I think they go together just fine.
On the other hand; did you find a better way to watch this for free?
And a bomb scare
Perhaps my favourite quote from a music teacher:
"As a teacher, I reserve the right to be wrong!"
-Leonard Bernstein
"The best way to know a thing is in the context of another discipline."
Debussy drew inspiration from expressionist paintings
Of course! All of he arts are related. Just as all humanity is (all ) related. Throughout (all of) time!!
Goethe: "He who does not know another language does not really know his own."
music helped me get through a chemistry degree
Michael Gill I bet u think u were mighty woke for being able to come to that conclusion lmao
I was fortunate enough to play under his baton on a few occasions, and to speak with him. The greatest mind and the greatest talent I have ever encountered.
What a gift this man is, could listen for hours
did you?
Lucky for you, the total time of the lectures are about 6 hours🥂
aye epretrall didnt expect to see u hetr🔥
This is like the musical equivalent of Carl Sagan.
Also, while his linguistic speculations aren´t very up-to-date with current science: "I claim the right to be wrong" is simply beautiful.
Please extrapolate how it is not up to date? Chomsky's idea (theoretical continuance) of innate linguistical ability is still unsurpassed? And that's what Bernstein heralds here.
Opposing theories / ideas like those put forth by messrs Pinker at al have failed.
"I claim the right to be wrong" sounds like an extract from Neil DeGrasse Tyson's benediction at the end of his Cosmos remake.
The mark of intellectual integrity is this sort of modesty.
I watch Bernstein and he seems to be speaking without notes, speaking so fluently and fluidly, without "ums" or 'you knows". I am struck by what a seasoned performed/actor he is. How he engages the audience - and the camera - with such a warmth and friendly manner. He admits to being "petrified" which seems honest and also he has the strength to be vulnerable. What an excellent speaker. How brilliant and appealing. I love his handsome appearance, his crimson tie, and his appealing deep voice. His knowledge is extraordinary.
In these troubled times, it comforts me so much to watch this and other LB videos. I'm grateful to Bradley Cooper and all the creators of "Maestro" that have brought Bernstein again to new world attention and to new generations as well as the older ones.
Seeing a lot of "western culture doesn't produce people like this anymore". I would say, very brilliant minds do still exist, but pop culture is less tolerant of deep, nuanced ideas, so they are not broadcast as widely. One modern example (among countless) is Robert Sapolsky - a king of modern scientific communication, but unheard of in the mainstream. In some ways, we are seeing a return of nuance, e.g. with the meteoric rise in long-form interview/documentary podcasts and semi-academic video-essay youtube channels. Just enjoy these lectures and propagate the intrigue and passion that they invoke within you.
i was literally about to use Sapolsky as an example...
I highly recommend his Stanford lecture series on neuropsychology.
Stephen Jay Gould didn't die that long ago.
Thanks to your recommendation I watch his talk on disproving free will. It is a profound lecture. Thank your for introducing a gaint on which shoulder I could stand.
These six lectures constitute a highly important document in musical aesthetics by a great musician of the 20th century. I read the book by the same name which is a transcript of these lectures, but there is nothing like seeing them. Bernstein's immense talent, his passion for communicating the essences of music and it's place in the larger 'art' world, and his musicianship, which is total, are all on full display here. These lectures, along with their embedded concerts, are twelve or so hours well-spent for any musician, music lover, and all thinkers in aesthetics and culture. Bravo Lenny, and thank you for sharing your gifts with all of us. You are truly a bright star in the heavens.
Did I remember wrong that these lectures were in that these lectures were delivered at the old Harvard Square Theater?
Gracias bb
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I've watched them all six times! Each time gleaned/understood something new I hadn't caught before
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What a wonderful opportunity to listen to Bernstein speak. This is worth so much it is priceless.
As someone who always struggled with music theory and had a subpar natural ear for pitch intervals - yet still insisted on playing music - this demonstration of the harmonic series, the development/evolution of new harmonics being accepted as tonal... what a beautiful presentation. This made me understand the circle of fifths in an entirely new perspective that charts and articles never could. What a teacher, a true command of his craft and the ability to explain it. RIP Maestro thank you for the enlightenment.
I last approximately 25 minutes into this and there are tears in my eyes. I never really know why. I feel impossibly thankful and blessed.
This is what PBS offered up in 1973 when I was 13. It's hard to realise how much higher the bar was not so long ago. It's why I am a jazz pianist/composer.
The early 1970s was the time in which PBS started promoting "Sesame Street", in which kids were portrayed as being street wise, with adults being clowns, buffoons, etc. (Big Bird, etc)
PBS is still better than all the other channels with the exception of Pornhub, but yeah, I think the bar was a bit higher back then.
Good for you! Would that PBS would return to its former stature. It’s full of pop, trash and snake oil salesman now. Rarely do we get the well constructed new work- such as an opera, or even a well-staged repertory work. PBS is slacking and peddling junk to the masses. For shame.
A man of extraordinary gifts. Musician, story teller, philosopher, historian, presenter, writer, orator, artist, poet, and painter. Thank you for making such fine material available to someone like me, who had no idea this existed before CZcams made it available to me.
Same goes for me. I had no idea this existed. Bernstein is the best lecturer I've ever heard, as well as, of course, a great musician.
I'll second that :-)
He would have lived longer had he not smoked himself into an early grave.
He also would have lived longer if medical research wasn't so controversial. There are actually a lot of scenarios in which he would have lived longer, let's see if we can name all of them. Oh wait, that's a waste of precious time and resources.
He lived a long and productive life. He did smoke too much.
I saw the original lectures on TV in the early Seventies. I was spellbound then, and even more so on revisiting them now. As a teacher (of languages) I have never encountered such inspirational teaching. Ever!
Same here !
Do check out Robert Gjerdingen's Music in the Galant Style
"spellbound"... interesting choice of words. That LITERALLY was what happened. Bernstein was not even correct if you see my other comment under tis video. He just enchanted you and others with a hollow fair speech.
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These lectures lie among the best things uploaded ever. Thank you!
You are welcome, enjoy, best!
His articulation is just off the chart. I've literally had to pause and search the definition of some of the words he says. I admire it and desire to follow in his lead
is english your second language?
@@Philrc No. I just have a smaller vocabulary than I once thought lol
Me Too!
How could you figuratively pause and look up words? You don't have to indicate you're speaking literally we Believe you.
@@TheBigMclargehuge I'm a young Gen Z whippersnapper, I put "literally" in front of everything as a general intensifier
He can hold the audience in silence and listen patiently in his lecture. I admire his flow of uninterrupted sequencing thoughts on the topic with numerous tangential swings and back to the base. Brilliant.
From a time when complex and lucid intellectualism was still given time on broadcast TV.
Oh, how we have fallen..
@@Persun_McPersonson When your entire society values profit over all else, it's no wonder the arts and intellectualism fall.
@@TheBoglodite yeh
I sure do miss those days.
...said the pseudo- and easily impressed intellectual using highly stilted language.
“He decided to learn it himself, what a man, even bought me the sheet music” if that isn’t true bromance I don’t know what is
I'm here before all the people who just recently watched Maestro on Netflix. Fun fact: I've watched the norton lectures something like 3 times in 10 years and it just gets better and better.
Such a pleasure to hear a whole lecture without "you know", "like", "er, um", or any expletives.
Wow! How correct you are. NO so-called 'filler words', which are used non-stop today by the hoi-polloi.
He did that so well that I noticed the very few that he did say. Hah, Toastmasters really starts attuning you to that.
YES but the fake nose scratches.
@@jslasher1 Hoi polloi meaning us
2:31 he says uh. Just because someone’s uses um, or ah, or err, in their speech, doesn’t make them bad speakers. It is the content of that speech that matters most.
Stunning intelligence! B demonstrates mastery of music and language - articulating every point with precision and clarity. He never says “um”.
You're so easily impressed.
@@HomeAtLast501pero ¿Por qué demeritar? En efecto se expresaba con absoluta elocuencia y sapiencia.
I made this comment 2 years ago, so I don't remember why I was unimpressed with this blowhard spewing simple concepts using the highly stilted language, and exaggerated articulation, that is so common among those in Classical Music. So I decided to rewatch part of it to see what I was thinking. I'm 18 minutes into it, and it's all hot air. All he has said is that he realized that a small number of well-known compositions had a phrase consisting of the same 4 notes. That's it. I can't waste anymore time relistening, since the lecture is so long, and he could have said what he just said in 18 minutes in about 2 minutes.
So let me as you this. If you watched it, what did he conclude about the universal musical language?@@eltiogottlieb.4911
O, how I had almost forgotten the brilliance of this man! Lenny was brilliant not only for what he knew, or what he could demonstrate with an instrument or an orchestra, but also how much information he could convey. I can open my mind like a trash can lid (which it often resembles), and he can simply pour information in like cream.
Scott Fulton III your mind is probably not trash. But I love the analogy of the trash can lid. Wonderful comment
What a gift this man was.
So much shit comes out of America that it's nice to be reminded that there are some great Americans as well, this guy was brilliant.
He does seem to like philosophers I do as well and it's interesting how he works it into music.
i could listen to him talk on any subject im just thankful it's music. Thanks for sharing
You are welcome, enjoy, best!
Can't tell u how much I miss this level of discourse. They have destroyed us & are looking to do so.
Universities are now production machines for political discourse as ultimate goal
This is is a very weird comment in which to spell 'you' as 'u'.
Came here after finishing up watching all of the young people's concerts, a natural transition.
A man who thinks about what he says and does.
I can't press the like button enough times.
I'm saddened by the fact that I was born at a time where such wisdom and eloquence has everything but disappeared, but I am also glad that it grants me the technology to witness this 46 year old masterclass I couldn't have witnessed otherwise. Thanks to whoever uploaded this.
san_ake Make sure it was an odd number.
I was inducted in Jr high School at 14 to replace a saxaphonist in what was then a pretty high level youth jazz band in my home town. So of course I was struggling with music theory in order to solo better like all jazz musicians when at that hyper impressionable age I stumbled across these lectures on PBS. These lectures faned the flames of what was already a pretty hot fire so that I became so obsessed with the sound of music approaching that tonal precipice that he talks about in later lectures. As a result of this televised musical inquiry I began my own so I naturally became a composer. I am now 63 and I am still a working Jazz Pianist and Composer still engaged with that inquiry.
Mr. Bernstein vitality, musicianship and cleverness make him a highlight of the XX century. I have the impression he left us too soon!
Musicians Against Multiple Sclerosis@ Salutes this incredible being who rediscovered the ability of Sound to heal! Onelv MWM
I want to be like him when I grow up... everything is so smooth and calm that you want to keep listening. my goal now is to be able to give a lecture like this in any chance that I get
What an incredibly eloquent individual
Man cant believe its been almost 50 years since he posted this on CZcams
THANK YOU for sharing this! I saw this a long time ago on PBS and had not been able to find it for decades. A fascinating discussion from a genius at his peak. These lectures should be considered a "world heritage website" by UNESCO.
I watched the Young People's Concerts as a kid. I loved him then--love him now. His communication skills are amazing. So glad this has been posted. Awaiting Maestro. ☮
This has utterly transformed and blown open my understanding of scales, keys, modulations, diatonic and chromatic control. it's just mind blowing. Freedom at last. Thank you so much for the upload.
What a great man Bernstein was.
Martin Craig you are welcome, enjoy, best!
In Bersteinian sign language, a nose scratch means a full stop.
Or a coke problem.
i kinda wonder if he did cocaine? because there are other videos he seems kinda high on coke? ...i used to do it in my 20's so i know the tells
@@rayfoster4339 His main addiction was amphetamines (speed) and pain killers, his nasal rubbing was largely due to sinus problems.
Sarah Jones -How do you know this?
@@MrTeff999 Because anybody who has taken an interest in the life and musical acumen of Maestro Bernstein knows full well of his battles with amphetamines and alcohol ,also his health battles with emphysma, asthma .and a runny nose caused by sinus conditions which irritated him.
Ads every 5 minutes for the entire presentation. Thanks so much for making Bernstein pertinent and timely.
A brilliant man of any time. Dearly missed.
This series is a pure treasure.
West side story! This great men wrote that musical too!!! He was so talented! One of the great human being of the 20th century.
The man is endowed with high level of talent as a musician. teacher, and as an actor. His body language helps him considerably in conducting.
The explanation of harmonics just blew my mind. As one who deals with wavelengths on a day to day basis, I've never actually considered this.
Hemholtz
I could listen to him all day.
I can't, he makes my Head explode every 2 minutes
It's so wild to think all these highly skilled musicians (Boston Symphony) went out to their period correct automobiles and drove home to their period correct domiciles spread throughout the Boston area of 1973 and their spouses and families or perhaps hipster single lives or elderly single lives and students. I love looking at audiences from this period as well I can almost see myself out there in those audiences. It was such a different world. The idea of watching this program on a handheld Smart phone while imaginable was pure science fiction. It's kinda sad because people really went to concerts plays jazz clubs lectures museums because culture took work back in my youth.
The amount of ads in these videos is inexcusable.
This man is very smart, it all makes sense and I have learnt so much from him.
Phenomenal - thanks for sharing! What a rare combination of a really great lecturer, an amazing musician and a genuine intellectual - how many people could take such a complex topic and explain it to non-musicians so that they actually understand it?? I could listen to him talk about and play music forever!
You are welcome, enjoy, best!
I love how you can hear his 'Maaaaaa!' encoded on the video tape several times, way in the background.
Yeah, thought my earphones were screwed at first haha
Andi Kravljaca any clue why this may be happening?
Andi Kravljaca overtone series
You have good ears. That is called 'print through' and is the result of the magnetic field of a tape recording imprinting itself on the nearby layers of a reel of tape.
I imagine it being more likely to happen if the tape sits for a long period of time without being played. If so, I now wonder how tape archives protect against the phenomenon.
Thank you so much for the upload.
You are welcome, enjoy, best!
Thank you so much, I remember these from when they were first broadcast and have talked about them ever since, I will so much enjoy watching again, I love the part about Mozart 40th symphony
And for Beethoven's 5th! If I remember right they were brodcasted in PBS.
"Language and Music proclaim the endowment of the human spirit." -Bernstein, 1973
This is amazing. He combined all my favorite subjects into a supremely coherent and engaging lecture. I can't wait to watch the rest.
I bought the entire set way back when, mid seventies somewhere. All but #5. Now I have that. Graicas.
I wondered how long he would stay seated in that formidable chair, for no lack of eminent behinds before his own having sat in it. Not a minute into it he is standing & about half a minute later he is seated on the desk. He did mention "occupying" that chair. Then, he frees himself of all that & stands rather alienating himself from the desk except as a support for his papers. Then, he is re-occupying the chair. Then off a few feet away to the piano. This, like his words & musical examples, is rhythmic, highly knowledgable teaching. Love you, Lenny. And may you, finally, rest in peace, aware of how much you have left behind to our immense pleasure, stimulation & gratitude.
I recently joined the joy of classical music and the lectures should be translated into every language!
This is the first time I've heart "tonic" explained without thinking of Schweppes
Hahahahahaha
...or (this goes back a few years) "Hair Tonic"?
"Long hair tonic" ;)
You're Funny!!
Gin and tonic relationship.
1:40:50 I could listen to Lennie talk for hours and hours on end and never get tired of it. He was one of the most eloquent speakers ever, not to mention his being a walking encyclopedia of music - and I don't just mean classical.
Stumbled upon this, best thing I've found in a LONG time
Thank you. Chomsky will remain legend. 2022 sends love light and happiness
Tried to listen this while working as background noise. Stopped being able to concentrate on my work because of how informative and mesmerizing the lecture is. I'm pausing and coming back some other time. Gotta' finish work.
I'm trying to focus on what he is saying, but I keep getting distracted by how beautifully he is saying it.
So true. One of the greatest artists and intellectuals of the 20th century ❤️ RIP Lenny. If only we had met ...
@@RCB-ww3tm Extremely eloquent,
He does command a powerful vocabulary. I consider speaking to be a sort of artform in itself. When humans communicate, one way of describing what's happening is that one person is painting a picture in the mind of the other person. And to do this really well, you need a large vocabulary and the intellectual tools to use it properly. With that, it's easier to communicate complex concepts. But beware. Because when you're behind some famous lecture desk in the hallows halls of Harvard University, you sound intelligent and confident. But when you're on the internet, often you can sound like a pretentious asshat. Being a bit of a pretentious asshat myself, I know from experience.
@@PaulTheSkeptic Agree. No question that L. Bernstein was somewhat arrogant, pompous, and pretentious. However, he was a brilliant intellectual, musician, and composer, and these attributes go with the territory. He was amazingly eloquent. I am just overly impressed with how he kept going with this excellent speech in such an eloquent way for more than one hour as if he was reading a dictation. Few people can do this, certainly not presidents. Simply impressive!
@@jgonz260 I didn't mean to imply that I thought he was arrogant or pompous in any way. In his time and in his skin with his achievements, he can get away with that. I'm saying that I have a tendency to speak like a book. I read a lot. I can see how I can come off as a pretentious asshat in the 21st century and on the internet.
It's totally different. No one's going to accuse him or other great speakers, James Baldwin and FDR come to mind, of being pompous. They deserve the respect they get for their intellectual acumen and precise diction. I agree totally. He was very eloquent and I learn a lot when I listen to him.
Thank you for posting this fine excerpt.
And what a gift to music study this series was and still is .
You are welcome, enjoy, best!
I've been a Bernstein fan since I was about 10. Used to listen to an LP of Westside Story. Played a solo in marching band in HS - "Somewhere". Took my dad's copy of the LP when I left after college.
I can't listen to this piece all at once. There is too much to absorb. I had no idea - what an amazing mind. I'm taking notes when I pause. I'm rarely mentally drained ... but this video makes me need to seek respite in order to appreciate the ideas that follow.
Back when at Harvard you got your money’s worth. What a lecture!
Well, in this century US state university cost more than the legendary Cambridge in England (look it up)
20 ads. If they only knew what they were interrupting
Not one of those ads stand a chance. I tap the corner going lemme hear Bernstein, lemme hear Bernstein.
Ad blocker?
I saw no ads. What am I doing right? Firefox with Adguard AdBlocker add-on.
Scrolling to the end, then hitting the replay button works on this video.
I have Adblocker now y'all 🤘😁. It was just the audacity
Amazing, a 1hr 45min coherent lecture without ANY notes or teleprompter.
yes, I thought that at first, but have come to the conclusion there is indeed a teleprompter - still, amazing information, and amazingly orated! This is my second time through...!
He keeps shifting his eyes/look, I noticed it immediately. So, I believe there IS a teleprompter, at least one.
keyboardbw still valuable!
If any of you haven't noticed there isn't a regular teleprompter, you haven't watched this to the end....and i mean the full lecture. Even after so doing, if you still believe there is, the details have blown over your head. (Un)fortunately. There is actually a "teleprompter" of sorts: in his memory.
He was a composer in training for the New York Philharmonic at the age of 25, I got a feeling this guy obsessed with such thoughts and even if he was using one for this probably didn't need a teleprompter.
There are many other interviews with him on You Tube
Wow. This is incredible. Thank you SO MUCH for the upload.
This is mighty good. The dude was a unique genius.
Bernstein gives us the pride of being Human. He is a "Real Human Being", one of the one-percenter of the one-percenters ...
Lao Mark agree
Bernstein's lectures are, today more than ever, pure unadulterated intelligence! Deep pleasure and constant tension intertwined in a singularly unique, sadly of days gone past, way of embracing complexity.
The academic wokes, cancel culture and related "modern" debris should be forced to watch and listen.
I just came across this and am choked up in the first 5 minutes of it. This is my dream class.
Great to Watch ,and wonderful to hear his Wonderful Knowledge, Thanks for this documentary 🎶💥💖🎶
What brought me here is the movie and I’m excited to listen. I sang in a choir. I am a painter later in life.
I just keep coming back to these lectures. So amazing!I've even started playing the piano because Leonardo inspired me. I'm learning so much every time I watch.
They are so deep and thurow. Profoundly edifying.
I wish there was more content like this! Thank you for uploading :D
You are welcome. Enjoy, best!
If Gandalf was a musician he would be Leonard Bernstein.
soooo true
Yes, and remember Gandalf was the angelic Olorin - Lenny in essence.
Este hombre era un genio, sin duda.
Literally invaluable. Genius. Thank you
2 minutes in and I already know this is going to be fucking insane! Bowl packed
What a lecture. Amazing.
What a genius. What an American treasure. RIP Leonard.
I have seen this lecture series multiple times over the years on CZcams - although it may have been a while since I watched this first lecture until the very end, after the performance itself. I had forgotten and was deeply moved almost to the point of tears at his description of his initial presentation of this in Harvard Yard being interrupted by a bomb scare after the start of the Mozart performance. And this is 1973.
Sadly in our current era, this kind of event might be interrupted by an active shooter... These days it is not outside of a real possibility. Yet Bernstein's faith was restored by the music and by the commitment of the audience. I wonder if he would have the same experience with an audience of today.
54:46 Much like a camera’s aperture, or the display of a television, I love how he expresses and demonstrates his point of musical development at the piano. Such a pleasure.
Inspirational. Spellbound. Brilliant!
When he brings the music technique into this lecture he really begins to capture my attention. He was brilliant at teaching the complexity of his life work of knowledge. I guess the linguistic stuff was his warmer or opening but his music stuff is amazing
This is good insight into where music probably comes from. Every musician can benefit from watching.
Could we get a few more commercials?? I’m not getting enough
Well, it's the youtuber who decides where to put them, then again this is so precious so I get that they want make money off of it. However, I had 0 ad and you can too if you can add 'Ad block" (a free extension) to your browser, it blocks ALL ads on youtube, unfortunately it only works on computers. Thanks for the heads up because I almost put it on my smart tv, but I can't stand ads especially on a lecture
For real
'Ad Blocker Free' is fantastic! 😃
Saves a ton of data and time! Please support musicians by going to concerts and buying albums!! 🌝 Enjoy!
The video has been on the site for a while, it is therefore very likely it has been claimed by a third party. Once it gets claimed and monetized, the uploader himself has no longer any say in where, what and how many ads the video gets. It's reasonable to assume that this would be the case here, they usually pepper the video heavily with ads, cause you know... corporate shills amirite. Just yeet on AdBlock and stop crying lmao
FAST and seek
FORWARD and seek
TO and seek
THE and seek
END then REPLAY IT BACK AND NO INTERRUPTIONS.
Oui merci pour ce partage, j'avais acheté les dvd mais mon lecteur toutes zones a rendu l'âme et je ne pouvais plus les voir.
De rien, Prendre plaisir, Meilleurs vœux!
Damn! Leonard Bernstein was one smart cookie as well as an excellent communicator and conveyor of the understanding of music to the public, even those not enamored with it as he was...
Thanks for uploading I saw this at the beginning of the 90s lovely stuff.
You are welcome, enjoy, best!
A constant treasure trove of observations. Thank you for uploading.
You are welcome, enjoy, best!
Damn good speaker
Thank you, uploader. These talks are fantastic
You are welcome, enjoy, best!
19:15 mind gets blown by the "ma" idea
What a brilliant mind.