Quite simply, one of the greatest gifts I have received in my life comes from a man who died almost 200 years ago... I truly can't imagine what my life would be like without Beethoven's music, I suppose partially because, as Bernstein communicates, Beethoven's music communicates something from the very essence of existence.
@kalmia01
6 ай бұрын
I totally feel the same as you 🤍
@ppchak77
15 жыл бұрын
"It is almost like celebrating the birthday of music itself"; that last line says it all.. Thank you for posting this.
@Johnnyfortune82
15 жыл бұрын
A very eloquent man, it is very moving what he has to say...
@wormrose01
Жыл бұрын
I was 19 when I first heard the entire 5th symphony played by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, sitting on the floor in front of the stereo in my parents house. I was forever changed by the 3rd and 4th movements. I am now 77 years old and I have listened to every piece of music Beethoven composed, many, many, many times and I have never grown tired of it. What Leonard says here is so true.
@catherineono3387
Жыл бұрын
Had a similar experience with the 5th.
@salvatore48490
Жыл бұрын
Avevo 11 anni mia madre mi fece ascoltare il primo tempo della V di Beethoven sul disco vinile 33 giri …rimasi fulminato…la mia vita cambiò per sempre
@Dan474834
13 жыл бұрын
It's always a pleasure to listen to Bernstein.
@BeerdyBruceLeeCentral
4 жыл бұрын
Never have spoken words been more true.
@petergilmour3007
3 жыл бұрын
How about these words..... You are gay
@MrTechTalkTutorials
10 ай бұрын
I did not expect you here! Binged your videos at one time
@BeerdyBruceLeeCentral
10 ай бұрын
Hey brother, glad to hear that:) I love Beethoven as much as I love Bruce.@@MrTechTalkTutorials
@randomuserguy
14 жыл бұрын
Daaaamn, his words almost moved me to tears.
@jonathanp935
3 жыл бұрын
This is the greatest, if not THE greatest reflection on Beethoven’s music. The ode to joy in the background makes it the best. To me, that melody sums up everything Lenny is talking about.
@Waldenmattfinish
7 жыл бұрын
He speaks so beautifully.
@letsif
15 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful, beautiful human being.
@mincruz3425
10 жыл бұрын
"it has a purity and directness of communication that never becomes banal...its accessible without being ordinary this is the magic that no amount of talk can explain." Leonard Bernstein
@jonathanp935
4 жыл бұрын
That’s Beethoven, in a sentence, "it has a purity and directness of communication that never becomes banal...its accessible without being ordinary“ man, i don’t know how many times I’ve watched this and gotten chills when the ninth starts in the background. He’s right, it’s almost like celebrating the birthday of music itself as we celebrate the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, the greatest composer of all time.
@hopesonmakokha5217
4 жыл бұрын
Bernstein is amazingly articulate. He always expresses his thoughts so well. I would have loved to attend his lectures or his concerts. What a man. Just like Beethoven and Mozart, Bernstein is a gift to us all.
@riteshajoodha4401
7 жыл бұрын
he really has a way with words.
@keithwilson6060
7 жыл бұрын
Ritesh Ajoodha The truth behind the words was self-existent. He just discovered them.
@operaforlife6551
4 жыл бұрын
had.. sadly :')
@vigokovacic3488
4 жыл бұрын
Did he write this down beforehand? Or did it all roll off his tongue as seen?
@RicardoFaundez
13 жыл бұрын
Beethoven was deaf from the outside world... but clearly he listened what is soul was whispering in his heart... I love that man
@MozartianObsessor
12 жыл бұрын
Man! That voice, that music, that meaningful saying, I will never be able to understand why 4 people disliked this video. :(
@telephilia
7 жыл бұрын
Western Classical Music has never had a more eloquent spokesman than Leonard Bernstein. What he said about Beethoven's music's relevance to Bernstein's time (this video looks some 30 years old) seems equally relevant today, especially today.
@hopesonmakokha5217
3 жыл бұрын
Especially today!
@hopesonmakokha5217
3 жыл бұрын
You know what, its relevance will always remain. The music is so powerful, I'll never forget that day I heard it live for the first time
@jomeara75
12 жыл бұрын
Nobody encapsulates the greatness of Beethoven quite like Bernstein
@persenaamarit
8 жыл бұрын
Glorious and beautifull speech.
@snuppssynthchannel
8 жыл бұрын
A genius talking about the genius!
@HodGabriel
12 жыл бұрын
i don't know what makes me cry - beethoven's symphony in the background or bernstein's emotional and true words..
@zerksepraga
Жыл бұрын
It's Bernstein's. The man is amazing.
@joncheskin
Жыл бұрын
Great summation by Bernstein-a great man accurately explaining the significance of another great man so we can appreciate it all the more.
@thefrayfann
5 жыл бұрын
"accessible without being ordinary!"
@basilia456
11 жыл бұрын
"Bien, durante la mayor parte de los últimos tres meses he estado viviendo en torno a Beethoven, reflexionando sobre su vida, visitando sus casas, leyendo sus cartas, pero sobre todo, viviendo con su música. La he estudiado y repasado, ensayado e interpretado una y otra vez y debo informar de que no me he llegado a cansar de ella ni un sólo instante. La música permanece inagotablemente satisfactoria, interesante, conmovedora, y así ha permanecido durante dos siglos y para todo tipo de personas".
@basilia456
11 жыл бұрын
"No ha vivido ningún compositor que hable tan directamente a tanta gente, a jóvenes, adultos, educados, ignorantes, amateurs, profesionales, sofisticados, ingenuos... y a todas estas personas de todas las clases, nacionalidades, razas, esta música habla un pensamiento universal de hermandad humana, libertad y amor.
@basilia456
11 жыл бұрын
Desesperanzados como podemos estar, no podemos escuchar esta su 9ª sinfonía sin emerger de ella cambiados, enriquecidos y fortalecidos. Y al hombre que dio al mundo un regalo tan precioso, ningún honor puede ser suficientemente grande ni ninguna celebración suficientemente dichosa. Es prácticamente como si celebrásemos el nacimiento de la misma música."
@opentls
4 жыл бұрын
If you ask me who wrote the best melodies, I wouldn't answer Beethoven. If you ask me which _are_ the greatest melodies, the first ~5 will be by Beethoven.
@lawrencetaylor4101
Жыл бұрын
Leonard is thanking Beethoven for Humanity. Beethoven loved nature, and I walk in our forest listening mostly to Beethoven Symphonies. He would be horrified to see what Global Corp Inc has done to nature. I hear no insects and there are no birds. Total silence. So I listen to Beethoven. And cry for my children.
@mjm5081
Жыл бұрын
🙏❤🌹Ludwig and Leonard 🌹❤🙏
@basilia456
11 жыл бұрын
Pero quizá había en Beethoven, el hombre, un niño que nunca creció, que, hasta el final de su vida permaneció como una criatura de gracia, de inocencia y de confianza, incluso en sus momentos de mayor desesperación, y ese inocente espíritu nos habla de esperanza, futuro e inmortalidad y es por esa razón que amamos hoy su música más que nunca antes. En este tiempo de agonía mundial, de desesperanza y desvalimiento amamos su música y la necesitamos.
@wilsonsomers
3 жыл бұрын
'Almost like celebrating the birthday of music itself'...bold words spoken by a 20th century music prophet.
@basilia456
11 жыл бұрын
En esta 9ª sinfonía, por ejemplo, en la que Beethoven pone música a la "Oda a la alegría" de Schiller en el final, la música va mucho más allá del poema, le da una mayor dimensión, energía vital y brillantez artística a esas antiguos versos de Schiller: "Todos los hombres serán hermanos", "Millones, abrácense", "Oh, mundo, ¿no sientes a tu creador?".
@metteholm4833
4 жыл бұрын
It couldn´t be said better, than this. Thank you, Mr. Lion
@9MarieCherie7
10 жыл бұрын
Leonard Bernstein is the Carl Sagan of Music.
@karlkisch3301
7 жыл бұрын
Dd
@navidrachman
7 жыл бұрын
Well said.
@thedrakenet
7 жыл бұрын
Actually I think you have it completely backwards. Carl Sagan is the Bernstein ( well not quite in the same league as Bernstein) of Science.
@AAAAAA-sl5hx
7 жыл бұрын
Very true haha!
@JT-ei3ly
6 жыл бұрын
His raspy voice is very similar
@vencingetorix27
11 жыл бұрын
You're not alone, friend. The ultimate truth we humans are able to intuit -and resonate to-comes to us via music and poetry. What Bernstein says is true and is the kind of truth we desperately need in this hour.
@41_balisingh20
5 жыл бұрын
For me... Beethoven's music mostly felt thematically personal to me well, with the exception of 9th but still, it kinda tells me about love, fantastically divine dreamy visions (which perhaps are glimpse of my personal heaven) and perhaps family (excluding the music).
@alunchurcher7060
2 жыл бұрын
There is something special about Beethoven's great music, for myself he's easily the greatest composer, its certainly quality over quantity. Even though he lost his hearing the ninth is a masterpiece of music or the world to enjoy.
@randomuserguy
13 жыл бұрын
@Archivvve I was thinking about this very recently, he was like the Carl Sagan of music. And Carl Sagan was like the Leonard Bernstein of science. I mean this as a compliment to both of them.
@bugatti103
10 жыл бұрын
Marvellous words Mastro!
@markhughes7927
Жыл бұрын
Came the Time - came the Man❤!
@basilia456
11 жыл бұрын
" En otras palabras, esta música no es solamente infinitamente duradera, pero quizá lo más parecido a la universalidad que la música ha logrado. Ese dudoso tópico acerca de la música siendo el "lenguaje universal" casi se vuelve cierto en el caso de Beethoven.
@CraigDAmico
13 жыл бұрын
i agree.. you described how i imagine him perfectly.. thank you
@Ludwig55555
3 жыл бұрын
How would you rank Beethoven's symphonies? I'd go with: 1. 9th 2. 3rd 3. 5th 4. 6th 5. 7th 6. 8th 7. 4th 8. 1st 9. 2nd 9th and 3rd are so universally acclaimed, that's it's not a surprise, 9th has more of the grandeur that I find more appealing. I had a harder time picking between 5th, 6th, and 7th. 5th has absolutely legendary outer movements, so I picked it 3rd, while the 6th is strong overall with a more gentle mood when, 7th maybe has the most rousing final movement after incredible movements 1 and 2. 8th is very cleverly composed, but lacks any proper slow movement, 4th has an amazing fast part of the 1st movement, but it doesn't strike that deeply emotionally. Symphonies 1st and 2nd aren't as good as the rest, they have more classical period characteristics. Early piano sonatas by Beethoven are already very strong musically, but he truly found his very own orchestral language in the 3rd symphony. 1st has more compelling subjects than the 2nd for me. , I know you like the 2nd more.
@alessandrodimeo6570
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, thank you
@nessieness5433
6 жыл бұрын
Wonderful talk!
@EyeLean5280
13 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing this!
@Omgirrl
11 жыл бұрын
Lenny was the man. That is all.
@keithkeller4156
6 жыл бұрын
Sharing + Thanks.....
@basilia456
11 жыл бұрын
En otras palabras, esta música tiene éxito incluso para aquellas personas para las cuales la religión organizada fracasa, porque recoge un espíritu divino y sublime en la forma más libre y menos doctrinaria que era típica de Beethoven. Tiene una pureza y franqueza en la comunicación que nunca se vuelve banal. Es accesible sin ser ordinaria. Esta es la magia que ninguna cantidad de palabras será capaz de explicar.
@azkeyz
12 жыл бұрын
well that's interesting , because as for myself , I also found beethoven 9 ode to joy to be one of the most worthy pieces of music from beethoven. butt when the joy is gone , beethoven is quickly back to his brooding moon light sonata beethovens emotional range is very wide. in my current musical situation , I'm seeking 1 single melody line that can defeat beethoven completely. bach of course does it for me every time.
@winrx
13 жыл бұрын
This amazing man can expound on the intricacies of a speck of dust for hours on end.....
@Noctifern
Жыл бұрын
reminds me of Carl sagan
@jafethsalas6561
3 жыл бұрын
Birth of music 👏
@ARYAINDIA1997
11 жыл бұрын
He's able to catch up the spirit of the symphony.
@the-chillian
7 жыл бұрын
They might have gotten the theme for _Immortal Beloved_ from this talk. (Theme in the story sense, not the musical sense.)
@jani14jani
12 жыл бұрын
For me Nothing beats beethoven music. Dont get me wrong i like bach too, but his music doesent come even near of Beethovens music on Passion, power and expression.
@thebookofjoy
10 жыл бұрын
May I know where I can download the full video? Thanks!
@Klassenfeind
6 жыл бұрын
14 people think: "Beethoven? Meh, I never liked his books."
@DavidKershaw-x1l
7 ай бұрын
This is mostly a flawless ode to a wonderful thing. But .... For me, this speech wobbles off the edge a couple of times. 1. "In this time of world agony... " - good grief that's a bit much, isn't it? Yes it's the best piece of universal accessible uplifting music going, but it ain't going to feed your starving village. 2. "perhaps in beethoven there was a child" - that as a hypothesis to explain the latter point about it creating a universal connection works , but the statement is so no sequitur to the previous paragraph that I don't think it works as a piece of rhetoric, and could have been restructured. Still, if I ever get a review like this on my work after 200 years, I'd be content even with the odd overzealous flourish in it.
@fishmanfishmanfishman
10 жыл бұрын
this is the damn truth
@zirakzigilband
Жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the source of this clip? It appears to be part of a larger whole.
@moek8924
Жыл бұрын
Very well said
@auerwack
14 жыл бұрын
@maxbigazzi it was the introduction to the special where he conducted the 9th.
@classicalricky
5 жыл бұрын
well said, leonard.
@RicardoFaundez
13 жыл бұрын
@onlinemonikers yep... BW a genius... and Lennon, McArthney, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin... so on... and on... but I think that Beethoven is on the top of the pyramid
@CroElectroStile
7 жыл бұрын
why don't people talk this way, with so much passion, if only i had such vocabulary to express my thoughts, instead i know 2 languages both moderate! lol
@metteholm4833
6 жыл бұрын
AMEN!
@MaxBigazzi
15 жыл бұрын
interesting! Where did you take the video? From any dvd?
@1AdrianR
13 жыл бұрын
@onlinemonikers I am if you are referring to the Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys
@zeitboy24
2 жыл бұрын
Bernstein.. The Carl Sagan of music
@OzzyKingofKings
14 жыл бұрын
@bersa888 I mean, I bear no ill will towards more obscure composers who were able to produce marvelous music, but I find that more often than not a great musician has the ability to elevate a more obscure composition purely on the basis of his own phenomenal interpretive powers and artistry, whereas more mediocre musicians can take the impact and charm out of even the greatest music in the canon and make them seem rather droll...
@nataliemozart5698
8 жыл бұрын
does anyone know where this is from? A concert DVD or what?
@stnwrd
11 жыл бұрын
Thank You for this nmariano79
@tangoalpha7
13 жыл бұрын
Notice at 1:49 when Bernstein says "ALL" he pauses at almost the exact same time as the music. Coincidence? ;)
@MisterQuizzz
14 жыл бұрын
Beethoven is God.
@Ravenshadow78
12 жыл бұрын
@jomeara75 whatabout when Beethoven was conducting Beethoven?
@cyberlioness
12 жыл бұрын
Yes Beethoven is the closest thing we've had to God on earth.
6 жыл бұрын
And Bach, don't forget Bach
@spactick
3 жыл бұрын
I get the impression that Bernstein liked Beethoven's music a little bit. I'm just guessing
@sarahjones-jf4pr
3 жыл бұрын
Leornard??..
@thefrayfann
3 жыл бұрын
Is this scene from a documentary?
@OzzyKingofKings
14 жыл бұрын
@bersa888 Your comment fascinates me. Care to elaborate further on this matter?
@MaxBigazzi
14 жыл бұрын
@auerwack Thanx!!
@zeitboy24
9 жыл бұрын
6 Mozart dislikes
@MisterPathetique
9 жыл бұрын
...
@NisseOhlsen
7 жыл бұрын
Guitarreando why should Mozart dislike this fine music?
@armaanalfares7974
7 жыл бұрын
Don't believe it! Those are Salieri dislikes; he is attempting to pose as Mozart to cause a Saudi-Qatar rift between the two great men.
@SpaghettiToaster
6 жыл бұрын
Armaan Alfares Salieri didn't dislike Mozart nor Beethoven either!
@ARYAINDIA1997
11 жыл бұрын
i rather thought on it.
@FatBoySlim696
14 жыл бұрын
Bernstein is the shit.
@tomphillips6743
4 жыл бұрын
What year was this from?
@hjo4104
2 ай бұрын
1970
@peeetteerr
6 жыл бұрын
Why does even this praise become infected with psycho-babble and sentimental cliché? Why attempt to explain, when whatever one may say will fall short of the music? Only a poet might rival the music, but I don't know of a poem about Beethoven, because a poet would not attempt to explain, but to realize a fullness through the richness of language that might present something similar, but even the best poetry, which I believe has equaled the music of Beethoven, can never be as immediate, direct as the music.
@jsallen1946
3 жыл бұрын
Not a single splice in three minutes of talk, and I think he is speaking off the cuff.
@ludwigvanbeethoven61
3 жыл бұрын
Bernstein understood Beethoven to the bone, but not in Case of Bach
@mcrettable
6 жыл бұрын
interesting how he doesn't agree that music is the universal language
@blucinemafilms
13 жыл бұрын
Bernstein kind looks like Beethoven himself. Make ya wonder. ...
@OzzyKingofKings
14 жыл бұрын
@bersa888 Hmm, I don't think I've ever heard of such an arbitrary selection in the XIX century ever happening, but I suppose it's possible! In addition, I observe that my own adoration of the classics stems quite a bit from the legacies of the great musicians of the recorded era; I'm firmly convinced of the importance of the musician's role in effective musical communication, and it just so happens that the most famous works in history tend to be the ones these greats frequented in performance.
@salirenses
Жыл бұрын
Perhaps Beethoven's Enlightenment doctrine is responsible for everything he did. If so, at least the Enlightenment had a virtue. Casuistry and unique, but a virtue.
@1AdrianR
13 жыл бұрын
@onlinemonikers Oh please.
@ludwigvanbeethoven61
3 жыл бұрын
Dustin Hoffman xD
@miskatonic3197
2 жыл бұрын
It's a common naive bias to believe because a music speaks to you, therefore it speaks to everybody. Some people don't like beethoven and many famous composers disliked him and have called his music vulgar. Such bias makes the whole comment irrelevant
@EmitFlestiKY
13 жыл бұрын
@bersa888 it's not mere "highbrow snobbery" that recognizes genius. Popular music today is just so banal and of the lowest-common-denominator that people recoil against anything of true taste and artistic merit that doesn't immediately excite the masses. It's sad that we live in an age of such artistic and cultural mediocrity.
@Ravenshadow78
13 жыл бұрын
@onlinemonikers Troll
@NisseOhlsen
7 жыл бұрын
Mozart. Escaped the chains that always limited Beethoven. Because of singularly great immagination.
@omglolgiraffe
7 жыл бұрын
The chains themselves were the reason that Beethoven achieved what he did, and is loved for it
@NisseOhlsen
7 жыл бұрын
I agree completely. Beethoven invested his soul to correct the system from within. Mozart -as aloof as Cole Porter - didn't care for the systen, focusing on effect, on emotion. A universal emotion.
@lllexoduslll
12 жыл бұрын
The quest to find onlinemonikers comment begins.
@chantelrachelle6133
3 жыл бұрын
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@JohnBoyDeere
7 жыл бұрын
Too bad Mr. Bernstein couldn't (or wouldn't?) engage the simple but most profound fact that yes, though Beethoven was a creature of God but much more importantly, Beethoven was a child of God in Jesus, God's only begotten. Beethoven gave all of his life's talents and credits to God and God alone, that is what made him who he was, a Christian first and a musician second... FWIW, I take nothing away from the late, profoundly talented Leonard Bernstein. Rest in peace:)
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