that 'how fascinanting' quote changed my life

I want to go and take all of his classes. There are teachers and great teachers and then there is Benjamen Zander!

"how fascinating!" is officially my motto now

Zander is now my new guru.

This is surely an enlightenment for me. When I play the violin I was so focused that I often forgot the essence of it - which is to enjoy it.

In 10 minutes he made him understand and feel music in its deeper meaning. At the end, this boy wasn’t the same person... Mr. Zander... a great Genius and definitely a human I would love to meet!

Make the notes really beautiful so the listeners care about what happens to it, and that's the only reason to practice...what a wonderful way to summarize the essence of performance (and to avoid performance anxiety)!

I really wish my piano teacher would have been half as inspirational. Nicolai will never forget this experience for as long as he lives

I have no knowledge of classical music at all but this man is so amazing that he makes a potato like me understand music.

Watching this man is so therapeutic! I imagine the young man will always treasure these moments.

Zander is really an amazing teacher. Such a great musical mind.

i am crying. this is pure love. beautiful

This young boy is really courageous, and lucky !

I love how, by doing the "how fascinating" bit, he made it ok, right from the start for the boy to make mistakes. And instead of being bad things, they became punchlines.

Dear Mr. Zander you make me to wish for a lottery ticket wining just to have you as my music teacher!

POWERFUL Transformation from an excellent coach!

We absolutely need more people like Benjamen. Inspirational beyond words! Thank-you.

Wow! I'm bursting into tears towards the end. So hard to contain the emotions. Bravo!

Wonderful! What a transformation! Watch it without the image - it works, too - you can hear the transformation! I love the end - the scenarios Zander invents for members in the audience.... Lovely video.

What an inspired tutorial... With a teacher like this, Ben's students will actually BECOME 'A' students never mind aspire to such...

Great, great, great !!! What a shame it was cut short. He really had me going.

Benjamin Zander's life must be amazing!!

For comparison on performances 1st time before knowing his crowd and without the masterclass: 0:53 2nd time after corrections and feeling more confident with the crowd: 12:22

I watched his Ted talk like ten years ago, I was so moved. But now I understand it better, we tend to focus more on make things right but the most important thing is to live it and feel it at the moment.

what a teacher! and a great student with his openness is equally impressive! thanks for post!

Wow, wow, wow! ..... I rode every note and held my breath throughout the last performance. Transformational for me as well. What an amazing teacher.

So much fun listening to Zander and learning at the same time…😁

He’s like the musical version of Bob Ross. There are no mistakes, only happy little accidents.

Mr. Zander...What a great teacher you are. You are an extraordinary human. Bravo, bravo, bravo !!!

Constructive instructions to play the cello as a top performer. Bravo!

Benjamin Zander is an absolute gift to the world.

Wonderful Teacher. Only joyous positive expressions. God sent him to us

He is just so amazing!!!!

Loved it! Such a great teacher and communicator!

Love! ❤️ Love! ❤️ Love! ❤️ Sir #BenjaminZander 🙏🏼

I believe his smile showed in his playing...but that just me, so glad I got to see this, Thanks!

Amazing....God bless them💗

A wonderful educator!

this guy is absolutly brilliant

Thank you for this. How delightful and inspiring.

Mr Zander! You look like a great teacher live your sense of humor

Wow, this was great to see!! Even better to listen to!

i dont know Benjamin zander , but This video makes him look like a genius

"How Facinating!"

Wow what transformation.

I knew he was a genius as soon as I saw that hairstyle.

Beautiful beautiful beautiful

How fascinating indeed!!

"Lost a lot of money on the stock market" How am I supposed to enjoy this performance if you keep reminding me?!

I LOVE this man and find him incredibly uplifting and inspiring…that’s why it’s disappointing that in the midst of sharing beauty and light, he chose to disparage an entire continent with a backhanded slight of the conditioning we’ve all been subjec to….that someone from Africa couldn’t possibly understand this music. I’m certain it wasn’t meant to hurt, but I’m also certain it’s not necessary and reflective of this man’s lovely soul.

wonderful!

This is a lesson for a special Aaron violistic. Wonderful instruction.

Wow. That's a teacher!

“See he’s from Africa, he doesn’t know these things.” 6:25

Love you sir.. you are amazing and great...😍😍

Great teacher

Amazing

This is so inspiring!

Thats a ture leader

this dude just changed my mind on how teaching is fundamentally....he changes lives even with people who aren't there and in ways he might not even intended....now thats a fuuuuuuhhhrrickin tewacher of a teacher this tyeacher needs to teach teachers how to teach like better teachers like this teacher!!!!

It's a "Masterclass". I think it's easy to JUDGE when we don't have all the background / facts.

what is the name of the piece used in this video?

Alguém tem esse vídeo legendado, por favor?

Can we get a full video of this? This seems to be an edited version

What is the name of his sitting chair？

what was the name of this song again?

Name of this wonderful piece? I know he said it in the beginning but can't hear it clearly :(

please which piece was Nikoli playing?

Is there anyway you can post the full video of Benjamin Zander's 2008 Pop!Tech presentation for use in a university "Leadership" course?

wish the microphones were handled better... Auto-pilot never sounds good

what was the story he was gonna tell?? they cut him off.

He actually look like nicolaj lugansky

Se his for Africa he doesn’t know about there’s things

0:47 i would be pissed too

stop touching me

He’s an inspiring teacher, a great communicator with a lovely sense of humour but alas his comment with reference to someone in the audience ‘You see he’s from Africa, he doesn’t know about these things’ which elicited laughs from the audience was most unfortunate

"He's from africa, he doesn't know about these things"?

This is so interesting and someone edited this so insensitively!! Why do such stupid editing on KZfaq? People can fast forward!

weak sound track

I could've done without that Obama/Biden sticker ruining things toward the end!

How is this good teaching? He's literally trying to make the boy as uncomfortable as possible. The pressure was already unbearable, Zander then tries making the boy fake smile while under pressure in front of a huge crowd? Who is capable of that? Then he places the boy in front of a random guy who we are not sure even enjoys the music, to try and make him feel emotion? I can't even imagine how uncomfortable this boy is at this point. Just because Zander is brilliant does not make him a good teacher, clearly.

Leadership? Sorry, is this supposed to be happening here?