Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No.3 “Kaddish”

[@paulvanzelm6251]

I was in the orchestra. I was a great honor and a lasting inspiration to make music with Leonard Bernstein.

[@roc7880]

wow. I listen to the piece for the hundred years birth celebration a few years ago, and it was truly amazing.

[@fabriziomanco7563]

Wonderful!

[@lspowell2548]

I feel that this music and LB's influence are a part of my soul 🥲

[@lspowell2548]

What a wonderful experience! What instrument did/do you play?

[@smurf902]

​@@lspowell2548 I see u are also owned by a black kitty. Is it a girl or boy? I have 2 boys

[@isthatironic]

At first when I was handed this piece, I wanted nothing to do with it, but now I can’t stop thinking of how beautiful this piece really is

[@canopus2005]

この映像が見たくてずっと探していました。 アップしてくださってありがとうございます。 当時の驚きと感動が甦ります。 その後、この曲の演奏に２度参加しました。 全てはこの映像の衝撃から始まったような気がします。 あらためて、ありがとうございました。

[@ernestoferreri]

Whatever Bernstein's weaknesses may be, he was a true seeker, and fervent, brilliant advocate for justice and meaning.

[@tr7938]

Or a poser. I don't think he had much moral fiber.

[@waynesmith3767]

It’s his amazing strengths that impress me.

[@杉やん-r5w]

クリスチャンになったばかりの頃、レニーのこの曲が気になりテレビ放送を録画したがテープなので劣化して見れなくなった。NHKで放送もしてくれないところにKZbin検索したら出てきて嬉しい。

[@13CurlyBear]

Wonderful!

[@krzysztofdemitraszek8344]

Not only ,, West Side Story".

[@robkeeleycomposer]

Wonderful to be able to see and hear this performance. If, to my ears, much of the piece seems thin and empty (a lot of busy and strenuous but purposeless 12-tone writing - perhaps in the rather joyless Scherzo that is intentional ) - the juicy tonal bits are worth the wait. I think it's an important statement, especially when you consider whenit was written (at the height of the Cold War), about man's relationship with God and the terrors of imminent extinction always at the back of Bernstein's mind (and no doubt, those of these splendid performers).

[@DannyintheSpirit]

This has to be his most important piece of music, embracing all that he was as a human being. And yes, it was composed at the height of the Cold War, just after the Bay of Pigs invasion.

[@spoookyspencer]

38:10

[@AlexToussiehChannel]

Bernstein is so modern! You know... I'd love to hear him compose something more like the Romantic period.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

"I would have loved to hear him compose" The man is dead for 34 years, he is only decomposing not composing any longer. ;) And he is not very modern. He only used serial technique when he wanted to make a point, most of his music is very much in the neo-romantic tradition.

[@HarukiTomita-b5j]

4:40

[@杉やん-r5w]

バーンスタインのCD版だと女性のナレーションなのだがそれがおどろおどろしくて怖い。男性ナレーションだと感じない。

[@fenice1246]

そうですね、女性のナレーター即ち夫人のフェリシアのナレーションは確かに祈祷が呪術のようにも聞こえます😅作曲家の意向なのかナレーターの意向なのかは興味深いところですね。

[@josephortiz4826]

I read that this was a letter to god from the devil??

[@Galastel]

There is no devil in Judaism. Kaddish is a prayer for the dead, in particular the orphan's prayer over their parents (simplifying here a bit, ye nitpickers out there). This is Man, the son of God, saying the Orphan's Kaddish over dead God.