Lennon Aldort - Symphony No. 2 in D minor

[TheD435]

So, you wrote this yourself?

[ArtyKing12345]

I bet you will become a GREAT composer one day :), with 30 something more syphonies ^^

[pcma1970]

Wonderful work !!!

[esudaw]

great piece of music! I really like the theme.

[gaiagale]

Wow ...a summer camp!

BraviTutti! ...musicians, conductor, ...ALL

What are you doing now?

[Plavo94]

Oh god, How old were u again?

That was simply amazing, its like a piece of music that I would have thought about in my head, but would never be able to write myself...haha thats just my perspective, I mean I'm only in high school ^_^

[VeryUndecided]

very very good

[YasminSilvermoon]

Added as a favourite, no talk about it! Loved it! Come to Sweden sometime so I can enjoy it live too :)

[cathyherr]

you're the next Mozart :D

That's amazing!

[bridget4depp]

Now thats talent! Keep it up and you'll be right up there alongside the big names. Awesome job! Love the music! =)

[nabucco68]

Bravo Lennon,but the misic it's another thing.

[EhCharley]

Hey Lennon, when you get a major cd goin, or compose for a really awesome movie, I'll be one of your biggest fans. Your going to be up there with Clint Mansell and Hans Zimmer let me tell ya! ^.~

[musicdivinemusic]

Bravo, Lennon! I listened with pleasure. You could compose soundracks for movies, they would be great. You have a sense of drama, and if you get a large orchestra, you can do wonders. Let's have more from you!

[amandathcommanda]

this is amazing lennon

[Julesurefoot]

3:48 - 4:30 the violins are off

[seilamalo]

guapo guapo més que guapo.

[vladxxthexximpaler]

You are quite talented. I am being completely honest when I say that, if there were a recording of this available, I would purchase it.

[andrewsfunk]

Music should communicate emotion of some kind. The only emotion evinced by 12 tone music is confusion and disgust

[mapipolo]

That, sir, is your own opinion...... and a rather narrow-minded and immature one, I might add.

[shakinjamaican101]

Let me guess... you like the viennese(classical) and/or Romanticism.

[shakinjamaican101]

Interesting, tell me, what inspires you to make diatonic music?

[macgeek2005]

Diatonic music is harder to write, more pleasant to hear, and overall, simply a higher form of art than modern music.

[shakinjamaican101]

Really? Can you please give me a comparison?

[shakinjamaican101]

I apologise if that came off as sarcastic or snobbish. Don't get me wrong I'm really impressed with what you have done. I just find it interesting to see what other composers think of modern music and so on and giving reasons why, and examples. It's interesting to see what you come up with.

[mapipolo]

That's some excellent writing you've done, Lennon! It's really neat to see more young people pursuing classical music.

Please don't take offense, but I wanted to respond to your above comment...

[mapipolo]

"Diatonic music is harder to write,"

One really cannot make a statement like that. Try transcribing some Beethoven onto paper. Then, go and try transcribing Schönberg or Shostakovich or someone of that ilk. Mmmmmmhmm.

I'm fully convinced that, by and large, classical music has gotten more and more complicated with each major period shift since the Baroque.

[macgeek2005]

Yes, you're right. I was thinking of diatonic music as being any harmonically correct, rhythmically correct classical piece.

[MrBirdieG]

@mapipolo Times have changed. Classical music was good in 1600-1800, great music indeed. It's 2011, we want modern music, whatever "modern" could be. I don't wanna see Beethoven transcribed on paper, I wanna see young talented people writing their own MODERN music, not something that sounds like someone else wrote 300 years ago. I don't wanna listen to the feelings of Beethoven but the feelings of the one who wrote it.

[mapipolo]

@MrBirdieG Wow, this is one highly protracted conversation. :)

Anyway, I was not at all suggesting that he transcribe old music rather than write new; I was merely pointing out a flaw in an earlier comment:

"Diatonic music is harder to write..."

... to which I suggested he try transcribing or writing in the style of Schoenberg, for example (which is, of course, ungodly complex and difficult to write and play). In fact, I prefer late 19th and 20th century music above all other periods. Cheers.

[mapipolo]

"more pleasant to hear,"

Maybe so, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Modern music is my favorite period in classical music for a reason, and it's not because it's pretty.

[mapipolo]

"simply a higher form of art than modern music."

OH SNAP! ;-)

No, really... this is where my eyebrows furrowed. There's just no way I'm going to let someone tell me that Beethoven or Mozart or whatever is a "higher form of art" modern music, simply because they are pleasant and romantic and whatever, and the new guys are often unpleasant and gruesome.

[mapipolo]

... that's like saying that dessert chefs will always be much better cooks than vegetable chefs because desserts taste better. You should make comparisons based on objective musical accomplishment and sophistication, not your own personal taste.

But sorry for jumping on ya about that. Great work! (and I didn't expect a response so soon!)

[GMJ7]

I agree with you. :) I'm a composition major in college and write strictly tonal music. I simply cannot derive any pleasure from writing anything atonal (let alone serial). My profs insist that I write less traditional music, and sometimes I do, but it's just to please them. I have a feeling atonal music is in decline... not a single one of my uni classmates (including the other comp majors) enjoys it nearly as much as tonal music!!

Great work, Lennon. :) I must say that I like this style.

[musicdivinemusic]

As a listener, I quite agree. Music is all about pleasure, not intellectual manipulations of notes. I'm glad to know that you think atonal music is in decline. Maybe it played an important role, but who wants to listen to it? This piece by Lennon, in contrast, is a pleasure to listen, it's uplifting, full of energy, and just very nice to hear.

[PorcupineFloyd68]

@musicdivinemusic Yeah, about pleasure. Some people do find pleasure in atonal music. Myself included. Not everybody hears and reacts to music the same way.

But, just to point out - just because it's not diatonic does not mean it's atonal. Chopin anyone? Debussy? Rachmaninoff? It's a proven fact that music can reach more expressive places thought chromaticism. That doesn't mean it's better. It's just more expressive.

[PorcupineFloyd68]

@macgeek2005 None of the Classical composers wrote strictly diatonic. In almost every piece, you'll find at least one secondary dominant, which is not diatonic as you probably know.

And, please, don't make a complete fool of yourself. "higher form of art" -that's a douchebag statement. Your music is just ok. It's not anywhere near the level of modern greats like Prokofiev, Debussy, and Stravinsky.

[PrinsTan]

Hej

This is really good not like that Takemitsu and Casteredes s***!!!

[brassplayersrock]

Your left hand is not just to flip the pages, more cueing or again, what you want from the players. louder, softer ectera. did it a couple of times, but you really need to work on your left hand.

Again, you're stick hand is REALLY stiff

Two points off for this. your 1 posistion is dragging. your down beat is slow.

[brassplayersrock]

stop looking at the score, eye contact as a conductor is vital for them to know what you want. point off

Your really really stiff in your conducting, fluid motions and melding of beats are needed at times. no need to conduct every single note. point off.

[shakinjamaican101]

Geez, give the kid some compliments and not all criticism, yes he is stiff yes he can do more with his left hand but I think this video is a demonstration of his musical composition skills than anything else. Keep it up Lennon your doing a great job.

[pcucka]

Sounds really good!!

[stereoequip]

This is an extremely complex topic. An uncontrollable event will greatly influence the decisions one makes.

But most importantly everyone would react differently to that event.

[eyelessingaza1]

WOW. I like to think that I have above average playing skills, but I seriously envy your composition skills.

[leviath40]

I believe that there is a power in your heart that is controlling what is happening to us hearing what you do...So you're a kind of god ^^

[a1024a]

Creative people, like you, are the hope of the human kind.

No, really. I mean it.

[terrificangel]

Doyou believe ingod?

[macgeek2005]

I don't believe in an old man with a white beard sitting on a cloud somewhere, but I believe that there is a power in the universe that is controlling what is happening to us here on earth.

[turnercurran]

like Physics?

[macgeek2005]

Physics controls the physical. But I think that what controls the events that play out, and why they play out the way they do, is a power that some people call "God", and I simply call "The Universe."

[enchiridion2]

no, physics controls everything and your thoughts your ability to type nonsense

[macgeek2005]

I already said, physics does control everything physical. My ability to type, my ability to walk, etc. However, what is it that DECIDES which actions physics will use to play out? This leads us to the free will argument.

[eyelessingaza1]

If there is no God, our thoughts are inevitable playings out of the various action-reaction processes in our neural synapses. I do not accept that human consciousness and creativity is in fact no more creative than the path a snowball takes when it rolls down a hill.

[macgeek2005]

Well, I think that's exactly what it is. Humans are just another element of nature, following their path according to the laws of the universe.

[igeek1]

The fact that you do not accept it has no bearing on whether or not it's true. The fact is that the evidence indicates nothing more or less than electrochemical processes in our brains making so-called "decisions" and the illusions of free will and consciousness are just that illusions. Lennon and I have discussed the topic in great detail, haven't we, Lennon?

-Zev

[macgeek2005]

So, you're saying that it IS an illusion that free will exists? Because that's what i've been saying. A person "makes a decision" or "performs an action", and then the brain thinks that it had a choice over doing that, creating the illusion of choice and free will.

[mayaescobar]

yeah you are awesome :)

[SwimSweetie100]

You have great talent. Don't waste it!

[DJALIPETITA]

u are now, 16?

and u conduct? this is amazing,,,,,,absolutly

[musicislove1230]

You should continue to conduct symphonies, it would be a shame if you didn't.

Great work.

[MastaSlur777]

thats pretty damn good! u wrote that???

[UTMusic]

Hey really great job. Are you pursuing conducting further this summer?

[macgeek2005]

No not really.. haha. In terms of music, all i'm doing now is playing piano and arranging orchestral pieces for solo piano. I don't write symphonies anymore.

[speiserspeiser]

I was a camper in the 90's. This really brings me back. Great job... NEMC is the stepping stone to greatness. Best wishes to you.

[ModifierLE]

I love you

[BigBacon89]

Beautiful music Lennon- You never failed to inspire

-Bacon