Leonard Bernstein conduts Cha Cha in West side Story
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@sapaulgoogdmen9542 Жыл бұрын
Guy on tambourine was so focused on how soft he can hit it that he forgot the maracas
@ryanbrown75367 ай бұрын
That poor percussionist 🤣 "Where were the little maracas?" I DON'T KNOW LENNY, I WAS BUSY TRYING TO CONCENTRATE ON THE DYNAMICS OF THIS FUCKING TAMBOURINE! 🤣
@sleepytabby91135 ай бұрын
Thank you for this comment. I've had an awful day and this comment made me laugh. ❤
@MissSalazar4 жыл бұрын
“That’s take 74”
@smurf9028 ай бұрын
They must have counted the "takes" from each entire session, not from that particular section. Had to be. Take 131 for Jose Carreras is impossible. U can't sing 131 times. I'm certain of this.
@safla20107 ай бұрын
@@smurf902exactly, plus maybe there are some takes which are just a few notes long because someone made a mistake, so the number of tsked can get very very high
@madoloresvillaverde4634 ай бұрын
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
@qcrew29383 ай бұрын
I thought he was being funny
@GeometricMason8 ай бұрын
We're so lucky this footage is preserved. Unlike the works of Mozart, Bach, and Bethoven, which we must interpret as well as we can from what is on the page, with this music we can know EXACTLY what Bernstein wanted. This footage is a world treasure.
@simonartymowycz967 ай бұрын
Definitely a fantastic treat to study, but what makes orchestral ("classical") music so special to me is the vastness in interpretation we can derive with our own imagination and freedom. Like a life living strictly by the Book, it is bland and colourless.
@Drumulater17 ай бұрын
It's such great misic
@gavinjacobs83016 ай бұрын
Well said sir, I definitely agree.
@GuillermoNunez-tj4jo6 ай бұрын
😢😊😊❤
@ahmedluther16943 ай бұрын
This is exactly what I have always thought, great composers capture their work and would like it to be interpreted as it is in their minds, as time goes by they interpret it in a thousand different ways. Even with speed, there are directors who finish the same work in 30 minutes and others in 40 minutes, very big differences.
@ZypherMyth8 ай бұрын
The quiet, "shit.." from Bernstein when he said they were on the same take and then the producer calls "Take 75" 😂
@marcellomarianetti17708 ай бұрын
Studying composition I realized that if you don't tell the musicians exactly what you want you will never obtain it, so being meticulous is actually very important if you care about the result
@MegaOttaviano8 ай бұрын
And I think he was sufficiently polite too
@cefinau8 ай бұрын
Orchestra musician to self: whatever you do, don’t let yourself get carried away by the music you’re playing
@abelnicolae8 ай бұрын
exactly :D It has happened to me too many times
@TheIceIvy8 ай бұрын
I allow myself to get completely carried away with the music I'm playing while playing in jazz.
@abelnicolae8 ай бұрын
@@TheIceIvy that's very nice. But when you play in an orchestra, you have to count bars. If you get carried away, you forget your entrance, like the guy in the video.
@keldrean8 ай бұрын
What about crying because it's so beautiful?
@Aleksandr_Skrjabin8 ай бұрын
@@keldreanAs long as you can keep counting and play as is written.
@jars77748 ай бұрын
“Too many takes, your Majesty”, said no music director to the Emperor ever.
@winrx Жыл бұрын
Who knew playing the tambourin and maracas can be so stressful......😂
@jjns56008 ай бұрын
THAT'S BECAUSE IT NEEDS MORE COWBELL!!!!!🔔🐮
@nathanpiazza96448 ай бұрын
Every percussionist ever
@TFreckle8 ай бұрын
... and vibraphone...
@hotdrumman8 ай бұрын
The guy had lots to do and ut would seem little time to prepare.... They're doing a recording with no rehearsal cos it's too expensive. Sadly small parts of the recording suffered.... But actually, what great musicians there were.
@el_quba8 ай бұрын
With Bernstein even triangle can be hard as hell kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5PJZ5Jto62Wn9k
@lanekarabani80844 жыл бұрын
the recorders are salty af "lenny, lenny, do you like the pitches-" "yes but i dont like the sixteenth notes" *recorder shakes his head*
@mariahc.crawley8842 жыл бұрын
SUPER SALLLLLLTY!
@reneecarter6702 Жыл бұрын
Me listening to the first bar: “oh that sounds so magical” Lenny: “no no no!” Me: >confused about what was wrong< He was amazing
@maximilianwilfinger8 ай бұрын
the strings messed up their written line pretty bad. came out too muddy and messy
@jemandjemand23628 ай бұрын
you can clearly hear the mistakes.
@BZB338 ай бұрын
@@maximilianwilfinger The bassoon missed the pick-up. You can hear him sing it at 0:28
@attaboy786 ай бұрын
I think it's the clarinets that messed up that opening bar, and then again later with their 16th notes LOL@@BZB33
@kimmyymmik5 ай бұрын
Jajaj same
@Dizzyfingers28 ай бұрын
Ever since first seeing this back in the 80s I have quoted so many lines - especially by Bernstein - I still say: "No ... hey, please .. 1-2-3 ... bluh-blee-bluh ..." @0:25 to this day ... LOL
@mga28998 ай бұрын
Forget the Biopic, this making of West Side Story is what you want to see.
@maestromuffin15 ай бұрын
I'll never forget standing behind the percussion section during a rehersal of his symphonic west side story dances and was amazed that the maracas player(after playing the maracas part) then turned them around a played the tom toms with the butt of the handles! During a break, I asked ther guy about this and he showed me that it said to do that in the score! What vision! What a genius!
@ronaldl90858 ай бұрын
Amazing he hears all these tiny details instantly.
@willmorris81987 ай бұрын
All conductor's should have an ideal version of what the piece sounds like in their mind. With Bernstein this is even more true because he wrote the piece. He already knows what it sounds like, its just a matter of whether the orchestra sounds the same or not. That is the job of a conductor
@richardwilliams473 Жыл бұрын
Lenny had a big ego but he is without a doubt one of the best conductor composers ever
@ellastarrr1st1498 ай бұрын
Plus big bullshit
@abbaup85438 ай бұрын
He was a ped.phile in case you ignore it!
@HelloooThere8 ай бұрын
He seems to have been a nice guy and quite affable. You had to respect him and I don’t find him to be difficult to work with. Yeah, not me…
@scottwilkins8 ай бұрын
Composer yes. Conductor? I've seen (worked with) better.
@davidhawkins22077 ай бұрын
He was a great pianist too.
@jocastadidntknew59807 ай бұрын
Aaron Copland, John Williams, and Leonard Bernstein to me are the fathers of American popular orchestra. West Side Story is just a phenomenal part of our culture.
@ericnichols92235 ай бұрын
I've always thought this track sounded perfect -- such a delicate, beautiful piece. Wonderful to see them working to get it right. Cha Cha was always stood out for me in WSS as one of its best moments.
@Shadowsnshades4 ай бұрын
This score gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
@stephenbarrette6108 ай бұрын
Lenny was simply one of my heros. I never got the chance to see him perform live in the UK. The recording of his West Side Story is extraordinary, legendary? very hard to describe other than just genius and one of my favourite CD’s It looks like Bradley is going to honour the maestro as he deserves. And yes he was a very complicated person, but in my humble opinion a musical genius.
@2Hearts39 ай бұрын
A view into the past of the making of beautiful music we've listened to and known and enjoyed all our lives. What a time to be alive 😃🎶👏
@Botrytis189 ай бұрын
Imagine being totally stressed while just playing a seemingly totally simple instrument like the freaking tambourine.
@MarcoLongoMusic8 ай бұрын
It's not simple at all
@Botrytis188 ай бұрын
@@MarcoLongoMusic Seemingly
@MarcoLongoMusic8 ай бұрын
@@Botrytis18 at all
@Botrytis188 ай бұрын
@@MarcoLongoMusic Fair enough
@BZB338 ай бұрын
@@MarcoLongoMusic Child's play at this level. The easiest frame drum by far. Not to downplay its importance.
@MandyG19732 ай бұрын
Absolute genius. 😂 Could watch this on a loop for hours. Love, love, love Leonard Bernstein. X
@danielconnolly85655 ай бұрын
Pure musicality. Delicate yet sharp. Such great, great players. ❤
@donvasquez17917 ай бұрын
Classic! I hope future generations will appreciate the work and love that goes into this! ❤
@sheilamacdougal48748 ай бұрын
Enthralling, more so than the actual play-through performance would be.
@Soundpaintmusic8 ай бұрын
1:57 ... What happened to the little maracas?! We must do it ALL over again!
@michaelporter63838 ай бұрын
This is surely one of the greatest musicals ever written
@Devan-he4kr7 ай бұрын
The indignity of having your tambourine playing criticized.
@wk30048 ай бұрын
Tambourine guy actually looked terrified. Also, was the oboe player they showed one of the oboists for the Oslo Phil in the Saraste days?
@laser1703238 ай бұрын
Between the pain in the producer and Bernstein’s comments, that orchestra had to be super up tight. And that orchestra had some heavy hitters in it … Julius Baker playing flute, Wilmer Wise on trumpet, etc. Usually when you’re playing and your goal is to avoid making mistakes, you’re not making music. These guys were doing both. I give them tons of credit.
@HelloooThere8 ай бұрын
Nah, these guys and gals came to play and do a job. I think Bernstein was more aggravated at the guys up the booth than the orchestra…for the most part 😉
@harmoniabalanza8 ай бұрын
take 73!!!! As a musician (singer) I find this harrowing and glorious.
@jakemuffett83478 ай бұрын
Well that's take 73 of the entire recording process so far, not just this number. Take 73 was the first take of this number. Probably the first time they played it too. This was basically one of the best session orchestras in the world, no rehearsals.
@richardwashington6203 ай бұрын
As a 13 yr old I was totally captivated by this documentary. Great to see it here
@kalajarvi5 ай бұрын
The percussionist was clearly under stress. LOL. He did well at the end.
@davidhensley768 ай бұрын
Meanwhile the low brass are on their fifth revision of the dirty lyrics they've composed while enduring 75 takes.
@helenpurdon45014 ай бұрын
just makes me cry. what an amazing experience to be part of - what incredible musicians
@davidrackoff37456 ай бұрын
This is such good music. And I bet the musicians loved this experience, as stressful as it may have been. (Now some of the singers’ experiences on this recording might not have had such a good time).
@Clown3213218 ай бұрын
This is sooo good! Thanks for sharing!
@Gggg-zu8gt5 жыл бұрын
Sorry for the poor percussionist, who has to rebuild his whole instrumentary
@BeingAnna2 жыл бұрын
This was uploaded 8 years ago... I like to think that he finally achieved perfection in the film that came out last year... one can really hear the differences!
@chrisartist51559 ай бұрын
Lenny died in 1990.
@sillybobby51898 ай бұрын
he just needed to replace the entire orchestra as well as the conductor.
@akapple35387 ай бұрын
You’re a few decades off. This doco was recorded in 1984 and the Deutsche Grammophon album was released in 1985. Nothing to do with Spielberg’s movie.
@sophiazey8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing.
@miltonderezende7906 Жыл бұрын
Today has not composer like Bernstein
@harmoniabalanza8 ай бұрын
that's putting it fucking mildly.
@neilcameron30213 ай бұрын
How about Yanni?
@pjmvdbroek5 ай бұрын
And elegant it is!
@richardmcduffie99228 ай бұрын
Beautiful stuff
@Newmefree-pn9us3 ай бұрын
A master at work 🙌
@DNS08753 ай бұрын
My goal is to play tenor and soprano saxophone in orchestras which record filmscores. These videos are inspiring and motivating 🙌🏻
@2Hearts38 ай бұрын
Sooooo beautiful 🎶🥰
@MrPhil4808 ай бұрын
pas vraiment...
@veronikapecenovic73248 ай бұрын
Predivno stvarno predivno.❤
@davemiller76338 ай бұрын
We saw it together ❤
@GDM223SR8 ай бұрын
So pros rush sixteenths too! Validated!
@karenmihranian97074 ай бұрын
Amazing
@stephenmcmullen76008 ай бұрын
Damn. That is hard work!
@bigkahunauk18 ай бұрын
How the magic happens 🥰
@ahmedluther16943 ай бұрын
Dozens and dozens of takes for the same work, that was the perfectionist and brilliant Bernstein, who spoke very highly of The Beatles in a documentary, the Liverpool group was also very demanding with their songs, for example, they did "Not Guilty" 102 takes, obtaining an excellent result and still they did not include it in the white album. Decenas y decenas de tomas para una misma obra, ese era el perfeccionista y genial Bernstein, quien habló muy bien de The Beatles en un documental, el grupo de Liverpool también era muy exigente con sus canciones, por ejemplo, de "Not Guilty" hicieron 102 tomas, obteniendo un excelente resultado y aún así no la incluyeron en el album blanco.
@barney68888 ай бұрын
Pain in the producer getting in the way
@WiloPolis038 ай бұрын
Had no idea Bernie was such a prolific musician
@klarakrok5 ай бұрын
ORGANIC APPROACH ANY ONE? what a gift!!!❤❤🎉
@skylark57894 ай бұрын
The star of the piece...the delicate maracas. So perfect, a tiny detail. Genius. Funny, I always noticed them as a kid years ago, because I thought they drew attention back to the spice in Maria's culture.
@Wendylovespitties5 ай бұрын
It just takes your breath away.
@MicheleEngel5 ай бұрын
It is thrilling to watch this. 😮
@BellaWorldAni2 ай бұрын
I decided to watch prior to viewing Bradley Cooper's role as Bernstein in Maestro -- and I can't stop laughing at "Take 74". That's all I needed to know. Wonderful footage, but the musicians seem STRESSED. LOL
@makinhotcoffee62304 ай бұрын
It's increadible how being picky at this made a wonderful outcome yes english i am grate at gramm4r
@ralphtoussie99917 ай бұрын
I don’t know how anyone can still give a fresh interpretation on Take 74! I would be robotic at that point.
@osvaldoschilling91298 ай бұрын
Is it possible to imagine coping with Beethoven conducting his own compositions?
@manuel.roesler8 ай бұрын
We have quite a few eyewitness accounts of how Beethoven conducted. It doesn't seem to have been very precise - then rather Bernstein
@bw20827 ай бұрын
Well you know after a certain point he couldn’t hear so you could play however the heck you wanted and he’d never know.
@ronaldpuso9454 ай бұрын
The musicians are anxious in his presence
@rubengreenberg22534 ай бұрын
Bernstein knows what he wants, hears everything and gets what he wants. Who is the bassoonist? -a beautiful sound. The best musicians in the business.
@ronaldwildman49687 ай бұрын
WOW !!!
@jeanninesantoriello79725 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤
@mrsjr788 ай бұрын
Where can we watch this whole session? Or at least more of it.
@davemiller76338 ай бұрын
It's on KZbin, in parts and about an hour long show in it's entirety
@harmoniabalanza8 ай бұрын
that poor percussionist looks like he was up all night practicing. And now he's like 85?
@paulsolon62297 ай бұрын
Let’s get it rt Like that, way to go
@ricarleite8 ай бұрын
What album was this recordkng releases to
@rossanobonacchi8 ай бұрын
A big fat WOW!!!
@mountainlinx4 ай бұрын
Genius
@maxmcmahon54018 ай бұрын
Could they please make up their mind whether this is rehearsal or a recording session?
@manuel.roesler8 ай бұрын
in fact, recording sessions go exactly like this. Don't forget: the orchestra is seeing the music for the first time and is sight-reading.
@Man-From-Another-Place8 ай бұрын
@@manuel.roesler The orchestra don't learn the music prior to recording it?
@Jack_Simpson8 ай бұрын
@@Man-From-Another-PlaceThey are all good enough individually to sight read their parts. It’s lining it all up, getting it in tempo, and, if you’re a percussionist, knowing when to swap instruments that takes rehearsal time… especially when when you’ve got a guy as picky/meticulous as Lenny.
@Man-From-Another-Place8 ай бұрын
@@Jack_Simpson Thanks. I play the piano and couldn't imagine just turning up on the day to record something I'd never played before.
@vhego8 ай бұрын
@@Man-From-Another-Placeyeah me too ahahaha well I just got in conservatory for composition studying, so I am no pianist, but I would never get into rehearsal without studying my own part even if I played the oboe or whatever instrument
@2Hearts38 ай бұрын
No pressure... 😑
@phillipchoate5504 ай бұрын
anyone else snap like in the film while watching this
@nelebdiazrodriguez45678 ай бұрын
Intense
@karenholtzclaw31355 ай бұрын
Fun!
@declanfischer53976 ай бұрын
That percussionist was so nervous 😅
@maestroclassico58018 ай бұрын
I preferred his larger scale orchestration from the Symphonic Dances
@JordanVanRyn3 ай бұрын
Without Bernstein, we wouldn't have one of the greatest Sondheim musicals ever made.
@craiglesuk17 ай бұрын
Who knew playing the tambourine and maracas was so hard 😳
@phillipecook32275 ай бұрын
Percussionist earned his corn.
@Lorangebeatrice4 ай бұрын
My Tambourine and Maraca guy left that room looking like Bernstein.
@chiconeededthemoney6 ай бұрын
Is this from the version with Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa as Tony and Maria.
@Thelonedisciple05 ай бұрын
Yes it is
@louisee73394 ай бұрын
Modern musicals could never
@ralftango9 ай бұрын
🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
@BrendanGM8 ай бұрын
So, no "fix it in post" then?
@MikeUIibarri6 ай бұрын
KZbin. Every time I start getting into something I like, the video ends.
@Thedearster8 ай бұрын
STUNNED they didn’t rehearse before recording.
@Trenton.D8 ай бұрын
It’s not like they have the music weeks in advance. They come, get the music, learn it, and record over the course of only a few days. Probably no more than a week.
@Thedearster8 ай бұрын
@@Trenton.D Well of course lol. I'm just surprised they were sight reading at the recording session. I thought they would've had a rehearsal or two. And then record for like a day or two.
@maestroclassico58018 ай бұрын
Take 74? Damn maybe studying with Reiner had an effect on Lenny after all!!
@ignacionavarro24124 ай бұрын
the tamborine man having a Carreras crisis...
@aarond95635 ай бұрын
They gave a ton of camera time to the guy with the tamboreen because they knew he was stressed 😅