Leonard Bernstein and the London Symphony Orchestra - Part 1 with Bradley Cooper
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- The Maestro film is out today on Netflix! To celebrate, we interviewed some of our colleagues, Sue Mallet, Planning Director who were lucky enough to work with Lenny on tour and Alastair Blayden Sub-Principal Cello who played under the baton of the real Lenny as a 17 year old musician, and was part of the film along with the entire LSO with Bradley Cooper. 📺
We poured our hearts into this film, and now it's your turn to enjoy it! Dive into the captivating tales of our colleagues playing in the iconic Ely scene and Bradley Cooper's experience conducting us.
And keep an eye out for familiar LSO faces throughout Maestro. 😉🎶
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I was stunned by his performance. You almost forgot it was Bradley.
Amazing
I live in New York and I am a subscriber of the NY Philharmonic and I must say, NY is not the same without Lenny.... We miss you!!!
Outstanding master piece of a film, Thank You Bradley Cooper!!!
Loved "Maestro"! Saw it twice in the theatres.
I am a violinist and violist who grew up inspired by Bernstein's Young People's Concerts. As a performer, occasional conductor and a dedicated listener - Bernstein always touched my heart.
It’s playing in theaters here in NYC before the streaming release and it’s magnificent on the big screen.
I wish I had a chance to watch it on the big screen.
@@beqamarsagishvili6988 It really was something. Scenes like the Ely Cathedral one and the dance/dream sequence were wonderous to behold in a cinema.
Agreed, but I saw it at the Paris where there were real sound problems -- a lot of dialogue was lost. Otherwise wonderful.
@@exaudi33 Huh. The showing I went to was fine.
I saw Maestro yesterday - it is fantastic - I cried. It isn't perfect - but it is brilliant.
This was the one good part of the movie. Bravo LSO!
Absolutely incredible film! I am so grateful that Bradley intuitively zoned in on the deeply personal and complex part of Leonard Bernstein’s life and marriage-without which I do not believe LB would have thrived or survived. The musical genius is not so much the focus here though of course it’s absolutely evident. It is so profoundly beautiful and painful and remarkable… as Bernstein’s children have also professed. And once again, Bradley Cooper gives an awe-heart-clutching-inspired performance and so much more. I will forever despise the Academy if he is not recognized as THE Best Actor!
I concur. Bradley is the Meryl Streep for male actors! It was an amazing performance.
The simple fact that THE ALL TIMES GREATEST LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA is the protagonist of this MUSIC based feature turns It into an obligatory MUST SEE for ME.
My favorite Orchestra since I was ten.
54 yr old now.
Mine as well 👊
The only orchestra in London whose concerts I attended when living in London in the late 1990’s.
@@Hongaars1969That's exactly the decade when I discovered LSO
I envy ya deeply
In the most sweet & wholeheartedly way ✊🏼🤜🏻🤛🏻🍻🇧🇷🖤
@@TPasquin101 🤜🏻🤛🏻🍻🖤
@@leonardomattarmonteiro2824 I had the pleasure of separately watching Sir Solti as well as Rostropovich conduct the LSO. And I loved the location of the Barbican and its interior. So often the latter are given a bad rap iro location and brutalist architecture
Bradley Cooper is a true stud. It’s so fitting that such an accomplished all around actor, director and attractive man played a similar personality. Bernstein was a stunning composer, conductor, pianist and human being. For those who are disappointed that the movie didn’t focus on his musical genius, you’ve totally missed the goal and point of the movie. Everyone already knows him as a musician. The focus was on his personal private life and relationships. A movie about Beethoven doesn’t need to focus on his musical genius. We know it already. This masterpiece gives us a close up glimpse of the man himself with all his quirks, foibles and failings. It’s a true epic work of art. I lived five blocks from Lenny when I was a student at Juilliard. One day he was backing his convertible out of the Dakota building with a handsome young man next to him. Felicia had been dead for years. I had to literally stop from crossing the sidewalk, so he could move his car to the street. He smiled at me. It’s a moment I won’t ever forget. To a classical music student; it was like spotting Beethoven on the street.
Congratulations to Bradley for a spectacular achievement well worthy of several Oscars. Bradley captured every physical quirk and mannerism beautifully. He never seemed to lack having a cigarette between his fingers! I can’t remember when I’ve enjoyed a movie more. Highly recommended.
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If you aren’t moved by the finale of the Resurrection Symphony clip in this film, you simply don’t have a ticking heart and are probably dead already.
Well each to his own. I for my part would have known plentiful more interesting aspects of Bernstein’s life that would have given better material for a movie. How he - to this point better known as a pianist - burst on the conducting scene as a last minute replacement for the legendary Bruno Walter, and never left (OK the movie opens with it, but glances over it in a 2 minute sequence). How he performed with David Oistrakh and the NYPhil, with them communicating in - German. How Bernstein made the Vienna Philharmonic rediscover - once Mahler had led that orchestra himself - love the Viennese Mahler. How he went to Russia during the Cold War and charmed the Russians, Shostakovich included. How he fascinated young musicians at Tanglewood and the Schleswig Holstein festival. His lifelong, respectful rivalry with Karajan, and how he conducted the Berlin Phil once - after the downfall of the Berlin Wall, replacing ‘joy’ in the finale of Beethoven’s 9 with ‘freedom’ (he was already a very sick man then, which made this only more impressive). His unusual relationship with soloists, for example Glenn Gould. How late in his life he went with the Bavarian radio symphony to rural Bavarian monasteries (Ottobeuren, Waldsassen) that even many Bavarians don’t know, for unforgettable performances of Haydn and Mozart.
Instead a few pictures from NYC parties, a couple of flirtatious scenes, then discussions with his wife, a few shots from a New England home, erotic acts with younger men, and an absurd ‘conducting’ scene.
As for the latter - no, it didn’t move me, as it didn’t work. Bernstein was a short, compact fellow, the ecstatic movements he sometimes (!) made look very different when executed by a lanky 6’1 fellow with long limbs - where they become grotesque pseudo-acrobatics. Besides, what is missing is that Bernstein did all this not for the show’s sake but in the service of music: he had an unparalleled ability to communicate musical ideas, his sense for phrasing, dynamics and architecture to the musicians. When he wanted ecstasy he conducted ecstatically, but much more often it’s small, subtle movements, or even communication with only facial expression that had the orchestra do incredible things (paired with what they tried during rehearsal, of course).
In short, if this scene somehow meant to portray Bernstein as a musician, it failed.
@@henrykaspar3634 I get your reservations about the movie. For those looking for an overall sweeping documentary of the life and impact of the musician and man, it would be disappointing.
I failed to mention that another of my Juilliard professors knew Lenny personally and he claimed that Bernstein was a very jealous fellow his whole life. It comes up in the movie but with Bernstein claiming others are jealous of him. My professor (Joseph Machlis) said Bernstein’s greatest disappointment was that he knew he would never be viewed as one of the greatest composers. He really wanted to be another Beethoven, as a composer, and had the intelligence and knowledge to realize it wasn’t meant to be. For all his great gifts as a pianist, conductor and composer, he felt a sense of frustration and disappointment. It gives insight into what goes on in the minds of someone at this level. I would imagine many a composer felt the same way. Rachmaninoff most likely felt this way, because as popular as his music was, the critics felt he was an anachronism whose musical importance was second rate. He might be pleased if he were alive knowing that his concerti are without doubt the most often performed of his generation, particularly by young pianists on the competition circuit.
Bernstein was simple genius, no two ways abt it. I’ve just watched the movie and I think Cooper’s done a really good job of it. Top marks for Carey Mulligan, though: superb interpretation. In certain takes Cooper IS BERNSTEIN.. scary.
For me it didn’t work at all. Cooper is 6’1 and moves like a 6’1 guy, Bernstein was a Compact 5’7. The conducting movements that Bernstein made look like grotesque pseudo-acrobatics with Cooper’s long limbs. Cooper’s eyes are watery blue, Bernstein’s were pointy and light brown. Cooper looks like a ghost with the Bernstein mask and the eyes that don’t go with it. Cooper masters Bernstein’s mumble in certain situations, but he talks like this all the time, Bernstein talked engaging and very concise in public speaking situations, and so on.
I respect Cooper’s live for Bernstein, but the movie didn’t work for me. I didn’t even find the story particularly interesting - all about his relationship with his wife and his sexuality, nothing about his work and career and relationship with various orchestras or musicians.
In short, I saw the movie with great expectations, but couldn’t pinpoint a reason why I saw it thereafter.
I watched hundreds of times the 2nd Mahler's before the movie. Literally, this was the in my opinion the worst moment of the film now, I didn't see Bernstein there unfortunately
@@henrykaspar3634 I agree with you Henry, I watched the first half of the movie and gave up on it after it seemed like it was all about his personal life with very little music and as you say, "nothing about his work and career and relationship with various orchestras or musicians" or what his musical genius was all about. I will go back and watch the rest of it but I don't have any expectations that it will be any better. To me it's also sad that millions of people who see the movie won't understand his genius and how much the orchestras respected him and loved to play for him and also that he was a gifted teacher as well. I was at a conducting class where by the end of the class, you could see the progress a young conductor made from Bernstein's teaching. I'm thinking a filmmaker who is actually a classical musician with an understanding of the music could make another movie with actual footage from Bernstein himself called "The Genius of Leonard Bernstein" which would document and portray the things you mention.
Please see this movie in a theatre if you can! I had a huge emotional response, and I felt so privileged to see on the big screen. I just wish I had had the freedom to respond with the tears I felt. Bradley Cooper is a genius. Lenny would have been pleased.
Leonard Bernstein is one of the few Americans who make me proud to be an American. His story is that of many of Americans: a son of Russian/Jewish immigrants who doesn’t go into his dad’s hair business, but pursues his passion, against the wishes of his dad, and becomes an international iconic superstar (and whose legacy is now considered secure and eternal). I had a piano teacher who had played as a soloist with Bernstein conducting and regret never asking him his personal recollections. I know they performed Tchaikovsky Concerto 1 in Carnegie Hall together. The reason I remembered it is because the piano was put onto the stage in front of the orchestra, but the lid had been taken off previously when it was used as an orchestral instrument. He told Bernstein he had no intention of playing “topless!” The stage hands came on, to an uproarious applause and proceeded to put it on backwards before turning it around the correct way. Who could forget such an incident? It overshadowed their actual performance. His name was Eugene List, another descendent of Russian Jews.
They put out a piano without a lid? At Carnegie Hall?
I’ve never seen anything like this in any concert hall. Why - and how - would one take off the lid in the first place? The lid is critical for the instrument’s acoustics … and these things are heavy and screwed in tightly, the lid is not a no easily removable part…
This sounds more like a penniless music school where a rowdy student somehow managed to break off the lid, and the school can’t afford the repair….
@@henrykaspar3634 I’m not sure exactly what was on the program, but more likely it was something with a prominent piano part and Bernstein felt the piano wasn’t being heard from the back, so they took the lid off. I’ve played orchestral piano parts in Stravinsky, and you really have to hear them. So if they used the piano for both the orchestral piece and the concerto, it’s easy to see how that would have happened, especially if the concerto ended the concert. Another scenario where the lid is commonly removed is when a pianist conducts while playing a concerto. In order for the orchestra to see the pianist/conductor the lid is removed.
Here is an example. The pianist sits with his back to the audience and the entire orchestra can see him well:
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@@henrykaspar3634 I’ve also performed the Poulenc Concerto for two pianos as well as Carnival of the Animals with several orchestras. Commonly the first pianist plays in the normal position with the lid up, and the second piano is nested within the curve and the lid is completely removed. It produces the best sound balance. The lid is actually easily removed with two people. I’ve done it several times. There are pins designed to be pulled out of the hinges.
Thanks for the explanations! I wasn’t aware of it, but now where you say it it makes perfect sense. With two, opposite placed pianos, one lid would face the wrong way - so one clearly needs to do something about it … 😉
Also to allow a tutti piano come through the orchestra, in particular with Stravinsky where it is used almost as a percussion instrument, playing without a lid can make sense.
I need to look at my own piano how hard or easy it would be to remove the lid…
For a soloist though… rather stark that they would offer a lid-less piano to him.
I couldn’t give a damn that Bernstein uses a now unfashionably large orchestra and chorus in his live recording of Haydn’s “The Seasons” (on UA-cam) because it’s the best most inspiring performance that I’ve ever heard and that in the end is all that matters.
The Creation is good, too.
@@drtmuir Oops! I meant to say “Creation” and put “Seasons” by mistake. 😂😂
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What a coincidence, I just listened to the DG recording of The Creation, played by Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and led the Maestro, Leonard Bernstein. I'd say that this is how that work should be done, with vigor, on modern instruments and with a big, overwhelming chorus.
@@paullewis2413, you know, you are allowed to edit any post.
Legend Bernstein, Great Conductor and Composer🤩🌹😀
I liked the movie, I knew he was a great conductor but never knew he was such a horndog party animal 🥂🎉
I loved Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein Super
This film looks amazing! There’s a reason John Williams went with the London Symphony Orchestra… after all they were the best and Leonard Bernstein brought out the best in them… as he was a classically trained phenom.
… and who better to play Leonard then that dork. He’s a classically trained 🤓 from the Actor’s Studio after all #❤😮❤
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While the LSO is indeed a great band, the bigger reason is $$$. Recording in the States, at least with union musicians, is much more expensive. There are no residual payments being made to the LSO musicians. Also, G. Lucas is rabidly anti-union.
Oh dear deary me. ! ! !
Amazing performances all around.
Awesome! Can’t wait to watch the film❤️
Das war bestimmt sehr großen Glück mit solchen großen Dirigent wie Leonard Bernstein zusammen zu spielen. London Symphony Orchester spielt nur mit großen Dirigenten aber Bernstein unterscheidet sich mit anderen. Mit Bernstein spielte man immer "lebendige " Musik (!). Nicht einfach " Forte "; "Piano "; "deminuendo ";"creschendo" Und so weiter, sondern in dem melodischen Ausdruck immer das lebendiges zu bringen das war sein musikalischen Streben! Selbstverständlich war seine große musikalische Expression auf Grund des großen Musikalischen Kenntnissen gelegt. Bernstein war großen Musiker unserer Zeit.
Danke für interessante Sendungen.
Brilliant movie
Cooper conducting in the movie was so weird, I was laughing. I couldn’t help it. But I enjoyed the movie anyway. ❤
I liked the movie. I kept thinking though Barry Manilow would of also been perfect for this film. Not to undermine Bradley Cooper. As Bradley becomes more distinguished there so many unknown talents that we get to enjoy. Great work Bradley!
Manilow is 80 years old, and has proven himself to be a horrible actor.
The movie wasn’t what I expected it to be, but I did enjoy the movie eventually. I had hoped it to be more about music but for what it was it was very good.
Inspiring!
I liked it!❤
Ok,look...
The ear can be pulled in two different directions as it is here.
We have a person speaking and in the background,we hear music.
Especially when the music is something we are familiar with, the ear focuses on it to the detriment of the speaker’s message.
I so wished that this was the focus of the movie; the transcendent genius, music and legacy is the real story. Genius is such a mystery, what made Lenny into this larger than life figure? Lenny was connected to the universe in a unique way, his higher self shone brightly. His personal life and sexuality is the least interesting aspect of the great man. Lenny like other greats are married to their music (heart, mind, body, soul and time) - personal relationships ultimately suffer.
I agree with you, that is one of the most disappointing aspects of the film, that you don't see his genius in how he inspired others, in rehearsals, performances, composing and teaching. I think Bernstein would be very upset that this is the public image of him in the film and the one that for people who weren't familiar with him and his work before would take away from it. He would want to keep his public image and work and his private life separate and this film emphasizes his private life way, way too much.
لا أعرف ما قد أتوقع من هذا العمل.. لكن سوف أعد نفسي للدهشة الممتعة بأشخاص مميزين جدا: ليني برنشتاين، برادلي كوبر، و أوركسترا لندن السمفونية
I don't know what to expect from this collaboration, I will free my mind of all expectations anyway, and prepare myself to be amazed by some very special people: Lenny, Cooper, and LSO
As much as Bernstein was a genuinely talented musician, as was the case with a few of his contemporaries, he imparted a significant dose of schtick to anything he conducted. To the extent that the result is significantly alien to how classical, baroque, romantic and contemporary orchestral music is performed today, with less melodrama and more a sense of the tragic. Even Solti doing Wagner was less navel-gazing and more intimate, soul-searching. If candelabras and ball gowns are your thing, then Bernstein is your guy.
I was disappointed that they didn’t show more of Bernstein’s musical genius, and also the interpretation of Mahler 2 in the movie was a GIANT missed opportunity, they rushed the most beautiful part of the piece, Mahler 2 was never meant to be played that fast, especially the ending, which is opposite of the tempo that Bernstein actually took. I would have to give the movie a solid C-.
Bernstein very rarely conducted any performance of Mahler the same way twice. Same with Mahler conducting his own work. Just saying.
If you compare the film to the archive footage we have the tempo is almost the same
I loved star is born ...but i didn't like the movie "maestro" but i appreciate Bradley Cooper's performance and i think that in the future he's gonna make greats movies..as actor and director
Can anybody please share what song is playing at 2:05 in the video! Absolutely love it
Based on one of the previous comments I think it is from Mahler's 2nd Symphony that you see him conduct the last notes of at the end of the film.
Our Maestro Riccardo Muti will a type of director with little movement, all expression belongs to the music. Time changed...
What are you trying to say in your inarticulate way? That Bernstein and Muti are very different people with different styles? Well, NO KIDDING!
The contrast between conductors more grandiose in their movements and conductors more minimal in their movements is a contrast that has existed in every era. Pop quiz: Who was Leonard Bernstein's conducting teacher at the Curtis Institute of Music? Answer: Fritz Reiner, the most legendarily minimal conductor who has ever lived. The contrast is between individual people, and is absolutely, categorically unrelated to time period. A conductor's expressive physicality is personal, and entirely personal. Please learn more about conducting and its history.
@@nicholasfox966 Well said.
@@nicholasfox966 This is absolutely correct. It also applies to soloists, such as Jascha Heifetz as compared to Shlomo Mintz. Personally, I much prefer the Fritz Reiner "style", but I respect the obvious talent and influence of Bernstein. Honestly, I prefer his compositions to his conducting.
@@nicholasfox966 Absolutely! The reason that different conductors do the same pieces as each other is because it's assumed that the audience will hear a different interpretation than that of another conductor. And that's even true when the same conductor performs the same piece, years apart as they're a different person and subject to different influences. My father was a conductor and as I was donating his archives to the USC Music Library who's curating his collection, I found multiple versions of some of the same scores marked very differently depending on when he did them.
Funny story about Fritz Reiner and his "micro-choronomy." The timpanist asked him to make his movements larger considering he was at the back of the orchestra and was the furthest away. Sure enough, Reiner tried to remember to go bigger with his gestures, but soon, he was back to the small movements. So the timpanist brought a set of binoculars to rehearsal and started peering at Reiner through them to drive the point. When Reiner saw him, he kept conducting but used his writing hand to write out a small note which he held up in the timpanist's line of sight. It said, "You're Fired!"
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Laughable comments. This movie will actually do more for “classical” music than any movie in a long time. Also: “They” didn’t “borrow” anyone’s name, as Bradley Cooper would be the “they” and he created the project. Lastly: this movie never pretended to be a biopic about Bernstein. It was, and always was going to be, about juxtaposing an artist’s relationships between music and love/sex. (Oh: it was deliberately a non-linear screenplay, a fantastical view of a section of a brilliant man’s life).
I don't know why he would be terrified. It's not like they didn't know he wasn't a real conductor.
Has anyone thought of Sean Penn?
don‘t ever dare to put mahlers 2nd somewhere in the background again
That the movie didn't stick with music is very disappointing
A completely soulless film about an incredibly soulful man.
Il aimait aussi les jeunes garçons 😏😒🙁
Pas les jeunes garçons…il était bisexuel.
It’s a love story, and that’s it. His occupation is essentially irrelevant. Great acting though.
Violins, NOT "violence"! 😂😂🎻
This movie will never be seen in theater…
I saw it in a NYC theatre last week.
excuse my mistake!! in France... we are still waiting... lucky New-Yorkers. I don't understand this differences@@exaudi33
It's a one-dimensional film, focused on boring, archaic topics related to sexuality, so disappointing.
Oscar bait
The movie was a huge and utter disappointment. Almost nothing about music and how Bernstein worked and how much he did, also for young people's education. They just borrowed a great name for a clichee-loaded story with no coherent script and it will sell tickets just because of Cooper, who really wasn't convincing in the role. His acting is becoming less and less nuanced these days, and he couldn't convey any of Bernstein's warmness and charisma, he was just show-boating. If you're a music lover, don't waste your evening and money on this superficial hollywood nonsense. Mulligan's performance was quite impressive, but that didn't do much to save the project as a whole. It is a shame, because it is a wasted opportunity to get people interested in classical music who normally aren't into it.
Maybe your expectations were simply not in line with what the film was going to be about? The marketing was pretty clear this was going to be a character drama, with music as a side-note. If you were looking for a documentary on Bernstein the musician we're lucky that he's one of the most recorded and documented musicians out there.
What a shame you didn't enjoy it. I didn't go with any expectations. I thought it was a superb film.
@@austinhan6998 The title was 'Maestro', suggesting exatcly what Bernstein was. If a movie fails its topic so completely, it is not the viewer's fault. I at least sat through it, I was in an almost empty cinema (on Friday night of opening week) and somebody left after two thirds, somebody else was half-asleep, my neighbour sighed every few scenes (in unison with me). That's how bad it was. A biopic is not meant to copy the person, it should be an interpretation that does the person or their life's work justice. I am also not saying they shouldn't depict the relationship/ social drama side, it has been done before, but light-years better, like in 'The Imitiation Game' for Alan Turing or 'Milk' for Harvey Milk. You were still able to get a sense for what these people achieved and why their life was special. I think they did a p*ss-poor job of depicting Bernstein, it had literally nothing to do with him or what his way of making music was about. My expectation was that it would be about Bernstein, it is not too much too ask. But you are right, you would learn more even from his Wikipedia entry than from this movie. And it has the obvious Netflix problems, no money was spent on a proper scriptwriter (the script and dialogue was painful), cinematographer or soundtrack (they really screwed uo even Bernstein's magnificent pieces). You are right, we are lucky there is so much genuine material about him out there, much more fascinating, here somebody just wanted to check boxes and milk a name for what it's worth.
@@misssophie6515 Ehh, seems you were expecting something that was never the films purpose or intent, but it sucks you feel robbed of your time. No matter, my personal favorite Bernstein recordings are his rehearsals at Schleswig, that’s my personal recommendation
You can’t please everyone every time. Some people can’t be pleased any time.
1 person surpased him as a composer and that's john williams also a conducteur and composer as a conducteur maybe not
I dont think John Williams is in the same league.... Bernstein was also a fantastic concert pianist.
John Williams is no conductor. Great composer, but net even a jobing conductor.
John williams started as a pianist in famous Orchestra's for film and he was as also a jazzpianist
@@IanKnight40 john williams is a fantastic conducteur as a composer the best!
@@geertpeels1124 Let me get this right.... So John Williams was taught conducting under Fritz Reiner then?. I rest my case.
For me neither the movie worked - the script managed to make Bernstein’s (!) life look uninteresting - nor Cooper as Bernstein. You can’t play Bernstein when you are 6’1 to this 5’7 and move like a 6’1 guy - the conducting, besides lacking connection to the music and the musicians, looked like grotesque pseudo-gymnastics with these long limbs. Or when you have blue, watery eyes that don’t go with Bernstein’s face and make you look like a ghost behind a Bernstein mask - and not like a man bursting with natural charisma.
The one thing Cooper mastered was Bernstein’s tone of voice, but he permanently spoke in a mumble that Bernstein only sometimes used. When speaking to a larger audience, Bernstein’s articulation was sharp, clear and pointed.
What an opportunity, and what a waste. I respect Cooper’s love for Bernstein, but there would have been 100 better scripts in Bernstein’s life. And he really should have chosen a more suitable actor than himself.
Yet another confirmation that the film industry should stay away from the music world at large. Does not begin to hint at representing who and what Bernstein was and meant. Pure business.
well..dah...
Well, please tell us more about Bernstein since you know so much….
it's funny...when Cooper is conducting( and he IS conducting, make no mistake, not like Cat in Tar who is 'air-conducting') i see more Yannik Nezet in him than Bernstein, make-up extentions and all.
Imagine Bohemian Rhapsody, if there were no scenes of the band playing and singing, except incidental background clips of 10 seconds of the beginning of a few songs... instead focusing on his tortured battle with homosexuality and AIDS from his girlfriend's POV. This is 'Maestro'. Bradley's portrayal was quite good, but I have to agree with the comments about him not bringing the heart and warmth of Bernstein toward a class or an audience, though admittedly the director clearly didn't give him a chance- Oh...
I was disappointed in this movie. Not his best work.
how come?
Bernstein made the music about himself, not about the music. He was in love with himself, a true narcissist.
Wow…
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