Leonard Bernstein - Young People's Concerts / New York Philharmonic
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Actor: Bernstein, New York PhilharmonicDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1500 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video
DVD Reviews of Leonard Bernstein - Young People's Concerts / New York Philharmonic
DVD Review: Bernstein at his best!
Summary: 5 Stars
Nobody makes a better introduction to the world of music than Leonard Bernstein! Only english language and subtitles.DVD Review: Young People's Concerts are for Everyone
Summary: 5 Stars
What an amazingly rich experience these concert programs are! Everyone responds to Bernstein's warm and passionate manner, and anyone's appreciation for classical music will be enhanced by his cogent and fun explorations into the myriad aspects of classical music. Anyone new to classical music who watches these programs will find themselves with new ways to derive great pleasure in life. Anyone familiar with classical music will smile inwardly as they find wonderful nuggets that increase the pleasures they have already tasted.
Classical music attendance and sales have been on a decline for some time. But in the 1950s there was a broader appreciation for all the arts as uplifting experiences; people respected an understanding of the arts and considered that an important component to a well-rounded life.
Leonard Bernstein was able to reach a large enthusiastic and receptive audience through the relatively untried medium of TV. I remember watching many of these concerts on TV as a kid, our family thought of those programs as important somehow. We have nothing like that today in either content or impact.
Bernstein was very popular at the time and for good reason. He was an enthusiastic guide no matter what he was doing: conducting, concertizing, composing, or teaching outright. He found enjoyable ways to entertain and educate, without being pedantic.
For a completely satisfying new old experience, I highly recommend these enchanting programs. And after having done that, I recommend taking in Bernstein's more detailed explorations in his Harvard Lectures series from the early 70s, available from the same video house.
DVD Review: Great
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an outstanding series which all parents should share with their children. Our society (children and adults) need music. Maestro Bernstein is a genius. How could parents NOT expose their kids and themselves to this series!DVD Review: A must toward getting musical culture in every home
Summary: 5 Stars
Bernstein is truly a genius. This collection shows in a detailled and very didactic manner the best way to aproach the learning and enjoying of classic music.
In specially attonishing and breathtaking "The sound pf an Orchestra" "The Sonata form" "What is a Concert" and thos parts where Bernstain performs his pianistic parts showing himself as a virtuoso.
I allready conveyed my collection to those physicians in my hospital to whom I am conducting in the world of classic music.
But most important, I gather my grand sons to initiate them in Music with this great master, Leonard Bernstein and his Young People's Concerts.
Dr. Jorge Fuentes-Aguirre; M.D. Ph.D. Saltillo, Mexico.
DVD Review: Excelent Bernstein
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best colection of Bernstein, as an outstanding Professor. 13 years of Music Academy at the very top. Yet, easy to understand and funny. Don't miss this set. It is a must for music lovers.
Description of Leonard Bernstein - Young People's Concerts / New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic stand among his greatest achievements. These televised programs introduced an entire generation to the joys of classical music. Bernstein conducted his first Young People's Concert on January 18, 1958, just two weeks after becoming Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. Such programs were already a Philharmonic tradition when Bernstein arrived, but he made them a centerpiece of his work, part of what he described as his "educational mission." Looking back on the concerts years later, he referred to them as being "among my favorite, most highly prized activities of my life." When he took a sabbatical season from the orchestra in 1964-65, he still came back to lead the Young People's Concerts. He continued to lead these programs until 1972, even though he had stepped down as director of the Philharmonic in 1969. Bernstein led a total of fifty-three Young People's Concerts during those fourteen years, and covered a broad range of subjects. The works of the great composers were explored, including tributes to modern masters such as Dmitri Shostakovich, Paul Hindemith, Gustav Holst, Aaron Copland and Charles Ives. Bernstein discussed "Jazz in the Concert Hall," "Folk Music in the Concert Hall," and "The Latin-American Spirit." He explained the intricacies of Music Theory in programs such as "Musical Atoms: A Study of Intervals" and "What is a Mode?" He broached complex aesthetic issues such as "What Does Music Mean?" (his first program) with clarity and without condescension. Bernstein also used the Young People's Concerts to introduce young performers to the musical world. The sixteen year-old pianist Andr? Watts made his debut in the concert of January 15, 1963. Originally broadcast on Saturday mornings, the programs were considered so important that for three glorious years CBS presented them at 7:30 p.m. (prime time for television viewing). Eventually the programs were moved to Sunday afternoons. The concerts were translated into other languages and syndicated to forty countries.Leonard Bernstein earned glory as a composer, conductor, and pianist (classical and jazz), but nothing gave him more pleasure than the joy of teaching. He presented the unique blend of spoken words and music known as the "Young People's Concerts" throughout his tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic and for several years after. His enjoyment, and his audience's, can be seen vividly captured by the video cameras. He is an intensely interactive teacher, getting his audience to sing, springing a quiz full of trick questions, and singing a Beatles song to demonstrate a point.
Bernstein is completely at ease talking to his audience. He can take the most abstruse subject - the meaning and function of intervals, tonality and atonality, the links between Gustav Mahler's troubled life and his music - and present them to a young audience with clarity, without condescension, and with a clear sense of the material's value. His subject-matter is enormously varied. For Igor Stravinsky's 80th birthday, he simply tells his audience the story of Petrouchka while conducting a dazzling performance of the colorful ballet. For a program on "Folk Music in the Concert Hall," he plays some of Canteloube's folk song arrangements and the boisterous finale of Ives's Symphony No. 2, full of borrowed pop and folk melodies. The influence of folk music is shown in folk song imitations by Mozart and Carlos Chavez.
The sound and images, taped over a 15-year span when the art of recording was rapidly advancing, are varied in quality; the series begins in black-and-white and ends in vivid color. Not all of the programs are equally compelling, but all are worth close and repeated attention. --Joe McLellan
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