He let them play, and they played wonderfully. Beautiful ensemble.
@AfroPoli2 жыл бұрын
Delightful. We need men like him in times of political correctness and the *resulting* mediocrity. Create something to argue about and - argue, debate, create. Don't sit in your armchair and be happy that all is perfectly correct. That's the ideal of the bourgeois and the pensioner. In other words: the death of art. Bah!
@adityapurohit82322 ай бұрын
Many Happy Returns of The Day Maestro
@rmtorig3 жыл бұрын
When i was at Aspen in 1967 for the whole 9 weeks studying with Harry Schulman i backed into making batons for conductors. among them were Lenard Slatkin and 80 % of the conducting class at Aspen. Sir Thomas was to me the consummate conductor he let his orchestra play I experienced the type of conductors he described in his interview that would stop every few bars and intimidate the orchestra I made batons for Verner Torkanowsky he was the same great artist at letting the orchestra play !!! when I was at LSU studying with Earnest Harrison one of Marcel Tabuteau’s finest pupils I had the honor of making batons for Victor Klimash who was also of the same philosophy of letting the Orchestra play. He was an artist.
@jefolson69893 жыл бұрын
Did you make batons for Scrowashevski? He liked them short.
@sarahbeecham62098 жыл бұрын
bombastic and brilliant! I had no idea that Peter Brook had interviewed Uncle Tom....
@antoniboleslawowicz80959 ай бұрын
Beecham was unique. Nobody can deny that! The way he handed out pronouncements was just as idiosyncratic as the way he made music -- not with politesse, but with everything he had. This film dates from 1958, near the end of his life……but still in process, or yet to be done, were some most exceptional recordings: the reorchestrated Messiah of Handel, the Beethoven Mass in C -- glorious things, just to name two. And I think there were a few stereophonic Delius items from those last years. Who was it that said “the art of Beecham remains one of the most precious discoveries of our time”? That’s from the truer words were never spoken department!
@pianopera7 жыл бұрын
STB: "Look here, in nothing, no profession, no occupation in the world (except psychiatrists) are there so many prigs and humbugs and intellectual scallywags as there are in the unfortunate industry, craft and art of music." PB: (nervous laughter) That was in 1958. How would Sir Thomas assess the current situation in the year 2016?
@alexkije5 жыл бұрын
I'd like to be a prig. Sounds cool.
@pauldavies60374 жыл бұрын
@@alexkije The Punk on the podium God bless him !
@CLASSICALFAN1003 жыл бұрын
@@alexkije "Prig" isn't used much any more. It's been replaced by "Nerd" (they act the same way)...
@jimmyj62093 жыл бұрын
@@CLASSICALFAN100 'Know it all' more like, especially these 'Opera Critics'
@Goetterdaemmerung867 күн бұрын
Love it, STB would be spinning in his grave so bloody fast that any energy crisis permeating the world would end immediately
@MrGer22957 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
@chrish123457 жыл бұрын
back in the day when some character was allowed
@magmasunburst93315 жыл бұрын
That's because men had ruled for history and had experience. Now women rule and have no experience.
@scottweaverphotovideo4 жыл бұрын
How incomparable he was!
@garryhumphreys30547 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting. Several clips are familiar (the excoriation of young conductors, the 'Samson' exchange with George Brownfoot, etc.) but I'd not previously seen the whole programme. Very good - though Peter Brook does ask some odd questions!
@MrMayAllDay2 жыл бұрын
A bit of a humbug himself 🤣 Though, he makes some great points and his control of the ensemble is extraordinary.
@rolandshalala Жыл бұрын
Carried away? I'm never carried away. Your carried away.
@jimmyj62093 жыл бұрын
10:08 When you come to face the orchestra, signs are not very much, facial expression is immense. The face of the eyes are everything, but more than that there is a link between an intelligent player and a first class orchestra, which after all, this...uh orchestra is.
@jimmyj62093 жыл бұрын
13:02 There's only one way to conduct an orchestral piece...
@jimmyj62093 жыл бұрын
!4:40 Jazz, what is it? Worn out old thing, it's already 50 years behind the times.
@khaartoumletstalk9037 Жыл бұрын
@@jimmyj6209 I heard that too. Amazing! ; ) K
@user-qv6lb5vy4b11 ай бұрын
Beechum kept a tight ship with his orchestra!!
@egaf778 жыл бұрын
The interwiev at 8:38 is so funny that I have never heard anything like this!!!
@TheVaughan57 жыл бұрын
Not surprising really as Sir Thomas Beecham was a unique character in the world of music. It's amusing just how many second rate musicians take themselves so seriously yet we have Sir Thomas, undisputed top of his profession, quick witted, straight to the point and not afraid to admit he was in a class of his own - priceless!
@user-qv6lb5vy4b11 ай бұрын
Nice he preseved deliuse,s music!!
@scabbycatcat42022 ай бұрын
Always a bit suspicious when " great conductors " have corresponding great charismas also. Is it their talent that has given them success or their charisma ? I once met Vasily Petrenko on the Liverpool underground and chatted with him for about 15 mins. It was clear he had great presence and seemed to have a whole haze of authority about him. He was always destined for " high office " !!
@andreaguarino8207 Жыл бұрын
Is it the socalled "received pronunciation"?
@WinrichNaujoks5 жыл бұрын
What's the piece after the interview?
@allenwilliams13063 жыл бұрын
Gounod Faust (Ballet Music)
@phillipecook32273 жыл бұрын
I wonder if he laughed or shuddered inwardly when he accepted that date at Lincoln's Inn given the amount of time ( and money) he spent dealing with lawyers, judges and QCs throughout his lifetime.
@slidemaster7 жыл бұрын
And in the 50 years since Beecham shared his advice about younger conductors, have any learned anything?!? Not in my experience!!
@TheVaughan56 жыл бұрын
In general I agree with you, however there are some young conductors who show genuine talent and musicality. For instance, James Gaffigan, from what I've heard so far, has I think the making of a genuinely great conductor.
@RayJorg5 жыл бұрын
14:18 Back then, an a most American form of cussing.
@ragadolls6 жыл бұрын
Mozart, Delius, Strauss and Elgar...Recordings of Elgar? He made one, but was not a fan. What about Sibelius?
@douglasmurphy91276 жыл бұрын
sibelius first symphony on mono columbia and he did tapiola on a mono rca too that i know of
@bbailey78186 жыл бұрын
Beecham conducted and recorded most of the major works of Sibelius. Oddly, he neglected the 5th symphony.
@johnllewlyndavies2223 жыл бұрын
Delius.
@user-qv6lb5vy4b11 ай бұрын
8:31
@dnstone11273 жыл бұрын
Shame he did'nt live little bit longer to see the Beatles or psychodelic rock.
@paperprincess10505 ай бұрын
What an up himself pompous drip
@swimmad4562 жыл бұрын
He was undoubtedly a great conductor but of Elgar? Never.
@albertclemente87394 жыл бұрын
"Jazz was born dead... all this club music". Like the one Bach, Brahms and so on played. What a "deep music understanding" XDXD
@dabedwards5 жыл бұрын
Sixty years ago, and how differently we spoke and thought! At 7.45, patronizing, sexist, faintly racist....all with the best intentions. He may have been a great conductor, but what a narcissistic old humbug Beecham was!
@openmusic39045 жыл бұрын
Funnily enough, I think she was more concerned with studying and enjoying her time at an English university to care about the about the largely innocuous comments of a narrator.