At 46:35, discussing how cultures differentially employ the pentatonic scale, he mentions "other complex processes" to account for the Japanese and gamelan traditions. What musical/theoretic processes is he referring to?

Extraordinary! ❤

When I first heard Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex I thought this is so lightweight compared to Le Sacre du Printemps. Now my brain has been totally turned around. This has happened because of two isolated events. The 1st was Charles Ives assessment of Le Sacre, "anybody" can do a polytonal chord repeated rhythmically 20 plus times over and over again. The other is the power combination of a Latin text with a Greek subject matter. I must say this is hitting me like a ton of bricks and I know now Oedipus is very likely superior artistically to Le Sacre. Not harmonically, artistically.

Betnstein's parallel charts show a mismatch between the surface structure of musical poetry, and the super-surface stricture of verbal poetry. It occurred to me that this approach to linguistic analysis could apply to the Star Trek Next Generation episode "Darmok." In that episode, the Enterprise encounters an advanced civilization whose seemingly incomprehensible language consists of metaphorical references to narratives. "Darmok and Gelard at Tanagra" refers to a strategy for helping strangers understand each other by confronting a common enemy. This language could be analyzed according to a ladder chart that matches Bernstein's musical chart more directly, because there isn't the same distinction between prose and metaphorical poetry.

At the beginning of the first lecture, Bernstein describes how he first noticed constellations of the same four notes in a wide variety of genres and pieces. One of the pieces he cites is the Ravel piece that opens this lecture. If you remember that, you can hear the four notes as Ravel used them.

He’s so well spoken

There’s so much wrong here it’s hard to know where to begin-so I won’t bother.

Barenboim is a giant, but this performance is not his best, to say the least.

I wonder if Bernstein will address the fact that most people don't listen to modernist orchestral works anymore; that pop, which he himself contributed to, is what people turn to for the music that died with Mahler and Ives in 2008. Trouble is, pop itself is now in its death woes too. The only music being created today is ambient.

The gratitude of the final movement and its final hymn is a message of gratitude not just for surviving a storm, but the gratitude we need to feel for Nature, and our prayer to survive the storms that we are causing with our negligence of Nature.

It's kind of ironic that he teaches so much musical logic, and yet is the most passionate conductor.

The next question though, is how does musical metaphor create synethesia, so that this music so calls up the pastoral not with literal metaphors but by the music itself. The key of F Major itself is one of its ways.

16:39 Are you telling me that Toby Fox wrote the flowey boss music as the fate motive?

Auf dem Grund allen "Progamm Vorstellungen " in der Musik sollte Absolute Kenntnis dieser Musik sein! Ein großer Musiker wie Leonard Bernstein lebt in der Musik und kann auf dem Grund der absoluten Musik Kenntnisse tatsächlich hören "Mondschein " Sonate zum Beispiel. Für einen einfachen Musiker wäre es besser in dieser Sonate zuerst cis - Moll richtig zu begreifen.

I saw that the view count was at 666k and debated whether or not I should click on the video, but then I thought, "eh, what the hell..?"

Brilliant stuff, thank you so much for uploading this.

Dang. For a guy who drove a train for a living, he sure knows a lot about music.

And now its all trap music and lgbtq and fentanyl

Stella Maris brought me here

Harvard has the level of blood on its hands that can never be washed off. Yet, here we are.

20:27

52:00

Maestro non è possibile in mattina. Non mi ricordo le parole. '선생님 아침에는 불가능해요 ㅋㅋ 가사가 기억이 안나요‘

what a lecture and no Teleprompter

Many thanks for uploading this outstanding performance, the last Bach's Mass in B minor under direction of this great master.

If people truly understood his point-- that art, at the deepest level, is OBJECTIVE-- humanity might experience a revolution in thinking, feeling, and happiness. But very few actually allow themselves to apprehend how radical a threat this idea would be to our consumer culture.

5:07 NOOOOOOOO! Don't pick your nose at this crucial juncture!!!!!

If you like _this_ it is an absolute must to hear Daniel Barenboims Goldberg Variations live October 12, 1989, Buenos Aires. It is on the channel "BEST OF CLASSICAL MUSIC" and, IMO, much better than this one.

As with the Young People's Concerts, LB wrote his script and used a teleprompter with such skill that some people think he's extemporising.

Grazie per la condivisione!

This is priceless

Hearing this man, at once so accomplished and so clear and honest, I realize more poignantly than ever how far we've fallen as an intelligent culture.

would've loved to see what bernstein would come up with if he was inspired by later wittgenstein instead of chomsky. I think wittgenstein has a more nuanced understanding of linguistics

Schoenberg never found an audience because his music sucks. There’s all these people who want to excuse these eggheads like a Babbitt or Stockhausen. The truth is their music sucks.

Schoenberg never found an audience because his music sucks. There’s all these people who want to excuse these eggheads like a Babbitt or Stockhausen. The truth is their music sucks.

Lindo Muita emoção Chorei......

First! Thank you!!!

It’s amazing how this struggle between tonality and a tonality was not resolved by creative genius or monumental artistic works, but was instead resolved by the raising up of generations of people who neither understood the issues nor cared one way or the other about their resolution. The triumph of people without culture.

Ives sucks.

This is fascinating, but totally wrong. Music is half way between lyric poetry and abstract art. It doesn’t convey anything or have content, the art is the way the arrangement of sounds is heard and the emotional response.

What an orator.

The Clangers

1:34:38 ….or….with less material determinism - animated tropes descending from a living cosmic infinitive…?

Kornél Esti, haha!

thanks so much for providing this. too bad KZbin's business model keeps interrupting with ads...

Upsetting. Too talented. In too many ways

Low calorie cigarette

To talk with elegance and substance NONSTOP for 3 hours in itself is a testament to the human spirit. Bernstein will forever be a source of inspiration and motivation.

I feel like watching a man of fashion of composure.

The movie Maestro did not do him justice