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  • Опубліковано 11 бер 2022
  • Marin Alsop reflects on her first interaction with Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Festival.
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  • @Quotenwagnerianer
    @Quotenwagnerianer Рік тому +37

    If I were a conductor I would die with envy. Getting to learn from Bernstein, what a gift.

  • @inezgraer5482
    @inezgraer5482 Рік тому +20

    You are a rare gem Marin! An example to all young people, not just women. Your attitude to life is refreshing, modern and exciting!

  • @zerksepraga
    @zerksepraga Рік тому +26

    So short a video, and yet so moving that it makes me she'd tears I don't understand. Bernstein was successful in the sense that he had produced such accomplished musicians and powerful conductors as Marin and many others. What's specially touching is the bond between Bernstein and his pupils. It was and is indeed "beyond magical."

  • @madavi6321
    @madavi6321 2 роки тому +40

    Of course, she is not a woman,she is an angel.

    • @srothbardt
      @srothbardt 11 місяців тому +2

      He probably meant that it was a good performance, and that the listener wouldn’t know that the conductor was a woman unless he saw that or was told, so why are there so few women conductors. This is something many critics and listeners and perhaps other conductors have wondered about for years.

    • @pentaholicproductions5468
      @pentaholicproductions5468 5 місяців тому

      @@srothbardtwell we know the answer, misogyny

  • @TheSuzberry
    @TheSuzberry 7 місяців тому

    I remember the brouhaha from the orchestra when she was appointed conductor of the Baltimore Symphony. She showed them.

  • @ronwade5646
    @ronwade5646 8 місяців тому +1

    Late of course? Not when he came to Phoenix, we were playing Ov.to Candid which is just wicked for string players and we just "thought" we came to rehearsal early by getting into Symphony Hall 2 hours before. He was already there practicing his piano scores and singing loudly and of course smoking like a chimney. In the symphonic world one does not simply, come in late.

  • @WinrichNaujoks
    @WinrichNaujoks 11 місяців тому +18

    Today he'd be sued to high heavens for touching, hugging and kissing her like that.

    • @pablov1973
      @pablov1973 9 місяців тому +8

      He used to touch, hug and kiss everyone that makes him feel happy, he was entirely uninhibited on feelings demostration, very emotional man.

    • @calebm9000
      @calebm9000 8 місяців тому +3

      Comments like this on every video of people pre-2000....drives me insane.

    • @parvdize3968
      @parvdize3968 7 місяців тому +1

      Fact

    • @georgelang6455
      @georgelang6455 7 місяців тому

      Yeah -- his sense of entitlement is off the charts -- even if he is a genius

  • @VelvetWhore
    @VelvetWhore 7 місяців тому

    Excellence.

  • @berndwickenhaeuser4886
    @berndwickenhaeuser4886 7 місяців тому

    Whats the name of the Piece at the end of the Video?

  • @helenateixeira9274
    @helenateixeira9274 5 місяців тому

    When someone is being a creep the victim knows it, body language does not lie. Bernstein was just being himself and Marin knew it. Mum, the first time she saw a woman taxi driver was absolutely euphoric, at the Berlin Dome a woman Decon at evening prayer made her day, and at the end, at the door, she probably took a bit of the young woman's hand with her. (Mum wasn't into theology) When I saw my first woman bus driver, I had to tell her my mum would have loved seeing her🤭... Bernstein was a smart chap.

  • @Petespans
    @Petespans Рік тому +1

    hmmmm, no comment

  • @georgiannmilan261
    @georgiannmilan261 2 роки тому +10

    Where hands belong?!..😫

  • @inthedesert2008
    @inthedesert2008 11 місяців тому +3

    Lots of inappropriate touching there…well, by today’s impossible standards…😮

    • @JohnGaroPiano
      @JohnGaroPiano 10 місяців тому +13

      Their relationship seems more like father and daughter, not to mention Bernstein being gay

    • @henryseidel5469
      @henryseidel5469 10 місяців тому +8

      Indeed ! At that time a touch did not mean being sexually offensive but simply expressed empathy and trust. You are right ! Today's standards immediately take this for a sexual attack depriving people of their humane feelings.
      Recently a football coach was taken before court in Spain because he had kissed one of his female players, who had won a championship. Out of enthusiasm. Idiotic !! That is the end of human reason.

    • @pablov1973
      @pablov1973 9 місяців тому +6

      What you see is a demostration that she means something to him, they have a father and daughter type relationship plus Bernstein was always in that way with people that was very close to him.

    • @henryseidel5469
      @henryseidel5469 9 місяців тому +1

      What type of behaviour is better: Now or then ??

    • @pamgeddes5346
      @pamgeddes5346 7 місяців тому +4

      @@henryseidel5469 I think the "then" behaviour was better. For them: Leonard and Marin. They respected each other. I just love this video, I watch it often.

  • @user-wp4ju4hp5w
    @user-wp4ju4hp5w 8 місяців тому

    The way Lenny had his arm around her was his way of flirting with her.

    • @betterworld2958
      @betterworld2958 8 місяців тому +4

      He was gay

    • @FreakieFan
      @FreakieFan 8 місяців тому +4

      @@betterworld2958
      and she a lesbian

    • @betterworld2958
      @betterworld2958 8 місяців тому +3

      @@FreakieFan yes and they were friends!

    • @joshuadesenna5345
      @joshuadesenna5345 8 місяців тому +4

      My brother she's a lesbian and he was gay

    • @pablov1973
      @pablov1973 8 місяців тому +2

      He was gay and she's a lesbian. No way!

  • @lunetelalune2783
    @lunetelalune2783 Рік тому +9

    I love Bernstein, but his comment that "when I close my eyes, I can't tell you're a woman" was low-key misogynistic.

    • @ClarinetEnthusiast
      @ClarinetEnthusiast Рік тому +16

      Such comments were much more accepted at the time. I sort of feel like he didn’t mean it that way, although I could be wrong. I felt that his intention was more like “I hear a goddess.” Or “I hear an angel, something along those lines. Basically her conducting is beyond the human level. Poor choice of words in other words, but again I could be wrong.

    • @henryseidel5469
      @henryseidel5469 10 місяців тому +6

      I do not think it was misogynistic at all. It was an intuitive compliment by Bernstein in that very situation. Of course there were more male conductors than female at that time. And I do not believe Bernstein's hug was meant to be a sexual attack. Why not hug a person that you like very much just to express your admiration. Without it meaning to be sexually offensive...

    • @smurf902
      @smurf902 10 місяців тому +5

      ​@@henryseidel5469exactly. He conducted boy choir singers too and was very affectionate with them, as well, the soloists. He had great admiration for his students.

    • @henryseidel5469
      @henryseidel5469 10 місяців тому +6

      @@ClarinetEnthusiast I think you are right. The norms of human behaviour and attitudes have changed since then. A hug or a hand over the shoulder was meant to improve the bonds but not a sexual assault.
      I was even kissed (on the cheek) several times by one of my female teachers, and I took it for a compliment. Which it was...Such gestures are dependent on the situation and the context but not on some external interpretation.

    • @MarshallArtz007
      @MarshallArtz007 23 дні тому

      Remember Alsop & Bernstein are gay. That comment from Bernstein could be interpreted a number of ways.

  • @whosaysitmatters
    @whosaysitmatters 7 місяців тому

    his behaviour is sickening, in a Bill Crosby kind of way