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Leonard has already many years not been with us, but i tell him - thank you very much, you have shown an outstanding musician and tutor!

He is quite critical of him, good and bad, a true assessment. At the end he sums it up and says the next note was always right... phoned in from God. Perfection. No other did that.

If Beethoven's 9th doesn't make you cry tears of joy, you don't have a heart.

BEETHOVEN IS GOD!!! 👊🏾🌟✨❤️

I never get tired of listening to Leonard Bernstein, also because of his beautiful voice.

And now is 2024, the 200th anniversary of this masterpiece, and the world is more than ever teared apart by war...

Why did he just walk away like that at the end LOL

I would SO MUCH like a job correcting, what these dumb text machines get wrong. I sit here and wheeze like cat everytime, it happens.🐯

I wonder how many people who watched this originally realised he was actually smoking a joint the whole time ? Ooh Lenny, you cheeky monkey !

The 7th symphony Allegretto, in it's very sparse simplicity, while between the layers very subtle complex things are going on. I'm not big on classical music or anything, but that particular piece is very special to me. The way it opens, having the low strings marching alone, and from there gradually opening up, invoking certain feelings in the listener, that music has rarely accomplished. He was not a melodist? Well I'd say he was a master of presentation.

Today is 200 years later and still with wars all around us.

Today is May 7th 2024 in Australia... 200 years old ❤🎉 how wonderful to be blessed with this magnificent piece... takes the listener on a magical journey of life... thankyou Beethoven

Who’s here after Bradley cooper’s performance of him

Miss this side of your greatness , L. B..

Bernsteins message is timeless and at the same time the exact message for our situation now in world history. We need more Bernsteins, more Beethovens and Schillers today!! We need peace and brotherhood among people more than anything else! Dear maestro thanks for your ongoing inspiration!

It occurs to me that the song has the final say. And when you’ve been allowed a song to transcribe, you have to battle the ego for the next input - unless you are truly obedient to what the song tells you to do. I’m no composer, but I have been allowed this experience. And I am grateful to have been able to find a piano to get those ideas down before they were pulled. It seems the song has far more to say than the composer if the composer allows the song to express itself through him

& 50 years later in 2024, trump buddy Vlad Putin continues to wage an unprovoked war on Ukraine, & Israel rebounds Hama's attack on it's country disrupting The Gaza Strip because of the countless Hamas tunnels under that land.

I love symphony 6

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In a way, Bernstein passes judgment on the Lord Jesus Christ, placing him in a list of well-known, purely human figures from official history, within the framework of a superficial presentation that takes no account whatsoever of what the Bible says about the course and background of things. Bernstein was a self-confessed occultist who enjoyed the Talmud. This is telling, and it is incompatible with the fear of God and respect for the Word of God. Incidentally, the famous choral anthem of Beethoven's 9th Symphony was and is Masonic. He did not mention this and certainly did not explain it. Even all his eloquence, which is nice to listen to, does not make the shallow talk he spouts useful and truthful. It is misleading in terms of content and otherwise self-promoting.

I know Bernstein is more than likely using a bit of poetic license to describe Beethoven's music here, but he's gone and ventured dangerously into hyperbole lol. Beethoven is my favorite composer, but not because he was perfect, instead because he was *_imperfect_* . Art is merely a record of what it means to be human, and Beethoven might be the greatest at achieving this, but for the love of God somebody please show me ONE wrong note that Mozart wrote ... Mozart is the epitome of perfection. His music is so exquisite, precise, and complex that it almost seems like it was written by a supercomputer. But again, to me this is what beautifully separates the two into their own respective categories. It's been said that "If you want to believe in God, listen to Mozart. If you want to believe in humanity, listen to Beethoven."

Bernstien is always so definitive. Everything is or isn't. Thinks he knows every intimate thought of every composer. Thinks every interpretation must be right. Makes a judgement from a modernist, post-modernist perspective. He thinks he couldn't ever be wrong. Never an opinion or a doubt. Annoying as hell.

I’m so grateful for these videos resurfacing. He should have lived longer.

The thing I loved most about Beethoven's 9th was the way it builds and builds and builds until the orchestra can't build anymore and the voices spring forth to complete the sound of joy.

The myth is Beethoven struggled and struggled to write something even half decent, and Mozart effortlessly wrote finished compositions from his head. Both are false.

Haha calm down

Вдохновляющие слова и параллели! Но очень бы хотелось продолжения с разговором о самой Музыке!..

Why does Bernstein use such extreme, exaggerated language when trying to convey a point?

I just saw the movie Maestro and it was profoundly disappointing.... none of this magic about music was in the movie.

The guy eye fucking Bernstein is creepy 😂

Maximillian Schell, the actor. Interesting that he is here.

Even as a child I was enthralled by the slow movement of the 7th --- now Bernstein has explained why -- it was simply 'phoned in from God' .... brilliant comment!

Him and Malboro...

Now for 2024. 200 years. It feels like it’s all starting all over again.

In other words, the whole was so often much greater than the sum of the parts.

in a world of twitter and youtube where everyone is an expert it's a joy to listen, even if only for 8 minutes, to a real expert

I want someone looking at me the way the interviewer looks at Bernstein 🤣

Finally, I now understand why I never liked Beethoven. Have tried to listen and play countless times. But millions love his music, probably because of what Bernstein described at the end of the video.

Absolute legend. "the note that was coming next was always inevitable", absolutely, it's the total sense of it.

“We are all the children of one ‘father’.” Or…one supreme creator. We are all human.

Lenny cradling the cancer stick that killed him. How does one square the musical brilliance of such a man with the utter stupidity of being a smoker? As Steinbeck wrote, "Humans are paradoxical by nature, and the greater the intelligence the greater the paradox."

dates.

Beethoven's 9th Symphony is 200 years old in 2024. I sure hope there is some celebraion.

A shame that Maestro couldn't have been more about Bernstein's passion and curiosity about musical form and a bit less about his marriage struggles.

Timpani needs to be louder bruh

Brilliant!!!!

Yes, sir.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

my god! my piano teacher/rs would kill me if i smoked over the piano (ash!) let alone placed a drink on the thing without a coaster, or with one! (what if its knocked over?) having said that, what a great lesson from Leonard B....all of his lessons are this good....alas, poor Max Schnell, has played so many Nazis in his career, i kept seeing him in his handsome theatre designed SS uniform listening to this extroverted Jewish man lecture on the composer Jews were banned from playing during the German Nazi reign...

The key is Simplicity Mr Bernstein, Simplicity: all that is necessary, and nothing more