This comment gave me a good chuckle. Thank you! 😂👍

Buriedstein 😂😂

boom! -stein

I also like that he says that it will make the ensemble feel more at ease if their director can admit fault.

Conductors studied conducting because they fell in love with the idea of never being contested by anyone. Therefore, most conductors don’t even care about musicians or even music.

it's the only way. Really all you're saying is I made a mistake which we all do

Lmao not really. Only I’m overly pretentious circles is it difficult. People act like they’re getting graded

@@martinscalona-clarinet9042pretentious weirdos do this. They never understood music in the first place and they’re the reason the genre is old and stuffy.

That’s right: “Pride before the fall”

I heard that if you make a mistake as a conductor they wanna eat you alive 😂

@@hansleber6090 Oh, absolutely!

@@hansleber6090Only if conductors make mistakes very often or if they’re A-holes.

FOR SURE. I am reminded of teachers who would make little mistakes in front of class and try to pretend it didn’t happen. Be genuine. Acknowledge mistakes and move on. It builds a connection with your students and peers.

I had the same but with Anna Wintour.

Very well put!

its not humility its called integrity

In his later years and while teaching (at Tanglewood) he seems very kind and down to earth. There are certainly no shortage of examples painting him differently. I suppose everyone has a few different sides.

For what it's worth, I was fortunate to be present at Tanglewood in 1988, as a composer, and we had a whole evening with Lenny (after making him dinner in the funny little kitchen at Seranak) playing him tapes of our music and he was wonderful, but the most memorable thing was what he told as at the end: You're all writing very good music, but you all take yourselves far too seriously. Classic LB, and full of truth.... @@MrMayAllDay​

Thank you so much for sharing!

@@robkeeleycomposer what did he mean by that? “You all take yourselves far too seriously.”

Toward the end, the late 80s (after his wife Felicia died and after he wrote A QUIET PLACE), He really mellowed out his ego..and became a teacher extraordinare.

A little BS gives one self-confidence.

@@LloydRMaes false confidence.

@@maestroclassico5801 bunk!

@@LloydRMaes Dude I studied Conducting and trust me from actual first hand experience, "fake it till you make it" doesn't work in front of a professional orchestra. Another thing I noticed is Conductors....who maybe only KNOW like 7 or 8 pieces....they Guest Conduct or never stay in one place very long....they leave before they're "discovered". Another thing I've seen .....Conductors who "hide" behind contemporary repertoire.

@@maestroclassico5801 Bunk!!!

...and you've got to move on and stop allowing that nasty woman to affect your life so negatively...

@@photo161 You're not wrong. But I think it pushed me more into jazz piano and voice, where I had more freedom, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

​@@ericholck3914Jazz is amazing. "Here's the music, but make it yours!" Classical piano is 99% technical; strict and rigid and everything is spelled out on the page, where jazz piano is 65% technical and 35% improvising it, so it's your style, uniquely yours, and nobody will ever play the same piece in the same way.

​@@erickalear7609 Exactly. For many of us, there are enough rigid rules imposed on us in our day-to-day lives not to take advantage of unrestrained creative expression when we have the opportunities.

Her name wasn't Laura was it?

The problem is the nose.

I think the problem in the movie is he mumbles, I can totally understand him in this clip, but Cooper got the tone, but just seems to mumble a lot of his lines.

Carlos Spierer still working today! (Without the BS:-)

That’s funny, and it shows that Toscanani was no hypocrite! 😂

I mean, there’s no context here. Bernstein may have wrongly assumed the conductor stopped out of confusion.

It‘s Carlos Spierer.

Me

Every student argues with their teacher at some point, especially in music. Best way to learn and to lead is to get proven wrong and it sometimes takes an argument here and there to make music clearer.

@@bernabefernandeztouceda7315 And what symphony orchestra do you conduct? And for how many years?

Right on!

My music mentor grew up idolizing Lenny in the 50’s and 60’s. He arranged to meet him after a concert in the 80’s. My mentor said it was a perfect example of “never meet your heroes”. However, the man is an obvious musical legend.

"We know when you're bullshitting" - Leonard Bernstein.

But LB probably gave him a big sweaty hug afterwards! @@spextrekid9410

Agreed

Szell? Try Reiner! And dare I say Toscanini?

Right on

I believe so. Some pieces require more involvement from the conductor if the timing and tempo call for it. Also, it depends on how well the ensemble plays. The rehearsal process is very much up to the conductor though. That is where I think the secret to the best conductor lies. Someone who the orchestra likes and can properly lead the group through rehearsal.

As a music teacher and conductor for 40+ years, there are really only four things a conductor does; 1. Start and Stop the music. 2. Gives the tempo. 3. Conducts the style to be played. 4. Gives cues. (i.e., gestures to individuals or sections for their entrance. Some might disagree and include things like, corrects wrong notes, or helps with counting rhythms, etc., but these duties (and many more) belong to a "teacher". A conductor has 4 duties, a teacher has many more. Oftentimes, one person wears both hats.(@@MrMayAllDay

Think of a conductor like the director of a movie or play. The director’s job is to impart as clearly as possible, his/her vision to everyone on set, from the actors right down to the makeup and props. They decide how the actors say their lines, move their bodies, which camera angles to use, which lighting suits the atmosphere. Some famous conductor (I don’t recall which one) said 95% of conducting is done during rehearsal. That’s probably true. A play director doesn’t appear on stage whispering direction and gesturing where the actors should go. Phantom of the Opera opened in the mid 1980s and stayed open well after its director died. The other 5% of conducting is keeping precision in tempo changes during the performance, precision in entrances, in holding musical pauses, and even perhaps being an emotional presence felt by the orchestra, as Bernstein certainly was, during the performances. So, your question isn’t stupid at all. In fact it’s quite valid! It’s just that what you see in the performance is only the tip of the iceberg.

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A know it all!

Is he not a "student"?

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Of course, conducting is taught. I studied conducting in classroom and live orchestra settings.

@@liamsandal6360 I studied conducting and I disagree with your analysis.

Conducting can absolutely be taught. It’s not just being a master of music and waving the stick, but it’s about communication, building trust, building rapport, collaboration, and learning how to be as transparent and as clear as possible. That absolutely can be taught, maybe not mastered by some, but it can be learned.

Nah, Lenny knows what he's doing there, but yeah ,but I agree that he definitely is overrated .