Dvořák: Cello Concerto - 1st movement (Benjamin Zander - Interpretation Class)

For more classes like this one, please visit the Benjamin Zander Center - www.benjaminzander.org/
Justin Zhou, cello with Dina Vainshtein, piano
Benjamin Zander's Interpretation of Music, Lessons for Life
Dave Jamrog, Audio/Video

[@miguellopes8546]

"(Music) is not something you do, is something you be". Beautiful.

[@dr.donchristie7093]

That piano is one of two, Model A Steinway grands that belonged to Walter Piston, who gave them, along with his papers, to the BPL. For years, they lay untouched and hidden under dusty covers, until the recent renovation of the Johnson Wing. One of them -- shown here -- was restored in the atelier of the North Bennet Street School and placed here in Rabb Hall. Let's hope they will also have the second "A" restored. Then they could hold the public Boston premiere of Piston's Concerto for Two Pianos Solis, written in 1967!

[@lynnrixson1094]

Absolutely fabulous- thank you Ben for giving yet another insight into how to live 😊

[@calevy7099]

He’ll have such stories. “So he grabbed my hair. And changed my life!” Well done, young man. 😊😢😊

[@elinannestad5320]

23.58 on: amazing how making the piece more sweet, soft, light, and not dragging the pace - powers up the feeling. Yet another life lesson.

[@nazaninandante8324]

I am a guitar learner, but I follow your instructions to learn how to live, how to see the world, how to be. Thank you from deep inside my heart.

[@daviddemar8749]

I'm am exactly the same way I suspect that we are not alone in that respect.

[@Hailstormand]

Fudge Dvořák really REALLY *REALLY* misses his home. Hats off to all parties involved.

[@RexakonGaming]

Beautiful video

[@alaalfa8839]

Dvořák loved the village Vysoka, though he traveled the world in Europe and US, but mostly he spend time in Vysoka and composing his music there,where were his friends and some family members he liked the forests and the nature there...But he liked Spilevile because it reminded him Vysoka. But he traveled a lot.

[@carmenvaldivia8651]

Splendide!

[@FernandoGaldinoluthier]

Que pena q não é legendado em português 😳 mas sensacional e forma de expressão do prof Benjamin. ...todas as avaliaçoes estou acompanhando......Bravo👏👏👏👏👏👏🔝

[@globalcabbage]

This is probably one of my favorite episodes :)

[@alanmelivilo]

si, mi episodio favorito es este :)

[@alaalfa8839]

Its difficult to explain with words or logic how to play this piece...He has to feel the music, the melody, the rhythm....So this is interesting class.

[@daviddemar8749]

Bravo Dina😊🎼🎶🎵❤

[@alaalfa8839]

This piece is poetic and virtuosic in same time.

[@brewskiproductionslasvegas]

I'll have to remember when I get to the slow part to make sure it's spaghetti bolognese! Seriously though, I love these interpretations. I learn so much from the backstories of the songs.

[@brodhax6148]

Ben and Dina are like the Bert and Ernie of classical music

[@DanielaFSchuster]

Thank Mr Zander for Shareing Your way yo live and love they Music!!!!

[@Torrealba.Director]

As a young Venezuelan conductor (23), watch this video and learn from the master that in spite of everything, the crisis, leaving everything behind because you are seeing how the home you love falls apart; Despite all that learn to go ahead with your head up high with the music and everything that has to give you. Thanks master, I hope to meet you someday.

[@juniordony]

Hows the situation at the POV of music there at Venezuela now? Brazil here :)

[@Gusrikh1]

Very educational...

[@zacharyserie7294]

Noooo, the phone call at 2:14

[@ryanpmcguire]

Zachary Serie at least he got it after one ring

[@jakewatson668]

I noticed too

[@LisaSaso]

Great

[@elinannestad5320]

16 the end? All over by 16???? Not for me.

[@Brandon_501]

Such a great lesson! Love them both. It may be me but his cello may be out of tune?

[@colinguan7626]

I just think his playing is a little out of tune

[@micahsnow346]

Yeah his intonation is not perfect

[@PuffinEasy]

I find Dina gorgeous.

[@estremp]

The issue ? What the issue Is ? It's about music. All about music. Playing good or bad does not make necessarily music. So ? Guess so.

[@JaxonBurn]

Gibberish

[@MrMark1n1]

What movement of the concerto is he playing?

[@DevenARam]

First

[@bencummings6221]

1

[@nawarbmansour6510]

The punch line is have sorrow to be a better musician

[@silvr94]

How can you play Dvořák and not know where he's from? smh

[@jakewatson668]

Ikr. Some people just aren't interested in that I guess

[@estremp]

Ask his teachers !

[@metroidfoosion73]

@@estremp Not teachers fault. If the student doesn’t have even baseline interest in what he’s doing, it’s his fault. Teachers are there to guide, not babysit. If you’re not endlessly curious, you won’t get far as an artist. A teacher won’t be there forever

[@serafin1719]

@@metroidfoosion73 I don’t want to be your son. You must tell them, that if they can’t help to pay the rent by the age of 6, then they’ll be out..

[@neoir8514]

@@metroidfoosion73 He’s 16 years old here and he’s playing in front of Benjamin Zander, I would say he has a “baseline” interest in the cello. Who gives a shit if he doesn’t know some facts about the composer