Little Drummer Boy: Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein

Little Drummer Boy: Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein
by Leonard Bernstein

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Actor: Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Janet Baker, Lucia Popp, Walton Groenroos
Director: Leonard Bernstein
Brand: Philips
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), PCM Stereo; German (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); Mandarin Chinese (Original Language); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Classical, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Philips

DVD Reviews of Little Drummer Boy: Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein

DVD Review: Mahler & Bernstein
Summary: 4 Stars

Leonard Bernstein knew Mahler's music incredibly well. Bernstein was also one of the the best musical educators to have lived. I have a deeper appreciation of Mahler and his own life experiences that shaped his music thanks to Lenny. View this first, then view his recorded dvd performances of the Mahler symphonies. Listen and be moved. This is great music and Bernstein has made it more approachable, meaningful.

DVD Review: Learn at the feet of the master
Summary: 5 Stars

Wow!--I just finished watching "The Little Drummer Boy."
Previously I had thought that I knew quite a bit about Gustav Mahler, but Leonard Bernstein showed me more.

What Bernstein does is show you--through biographical commentary and excerpts from Mahler's music--just what it was that made this masterful composer and conductor so obsessed with Life and Death.

Yes, part of it was Mahler's being born Jewish, and part was seeing so many of his brothers and sisters die so early in life. But Bernstein shows us how Mahler was, like most of us, striving to try to come to terms with life--to understand why death has to come and deprive us of the joys of life.

To give you an idea of how concrete, knowledgeable and specific this program is, Lenny takes a few minutes, using musical excerpts, to illustrate how there is a funeral march in each of Mahler's nine symphonies.

If you like Mahler, and would like to understand him better, get a friend to watch this with you, and learn at the feet of the master. This one is a must for those who love Mahler or Bernstein!

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