Listening to Berstein's thoughts on Beethoven, I understand why he felt the way he did about Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" note @ top .I think Gershwin was coming at classical music from the sensibility of a modernist and not as a classical musician. The difference is a modernist will take different traditions / styles and marry them together to create a new language / idiom in the same genre. A classically trained musician will never leave the genre or change the vocabulary and grammar of it.
Gershwin's original family name was Gershkovitch - Russian Jews from Odessa.... can't beat the Jews when it comes to great music! the modern Western popmusic, btw, was 'invented' by Russian Jews in USA and the descendants of black slaves - because both ethnic groups could not get decent jobs during the great depression times in America so they joined forces and created a new sound.... starting with Jazz and then R & B and now the popmusic that we know in the sound of ppl like Britney Spears...
@terryowah i don't care about the crap music today, think about all the great music that came out in the 20th century (and is still coming, it's just not mainstream) and listen to it.
@terryowah not jews necessarily. the credit for all the crap goes to the brit government and the elite group when they made a power-business plan to dominate the world and one of things was to promote non creative mediocracy. The start was simple-they created the beatles. that was the end of creative high quality music and beginning of music pornography. see james bond movies, its all there ;)
Once I was having the worst day.... I came home, listened to this, bawled my eyes out at 06:00. It spoke straight to my heart and made everything better :)
I think he butchered this in places. I've heard much better. And for all who think this was written in the 80's for United Airlines, it is Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin -- avalaible anywhere by numerous artists and orchestras.
@sargeanton2 Bernstein makes two cuts in the music and slows the tempo to a crawl at one point. No big deal, but what he left out is good music. The original jazz band version of the Rhapsody is much more Gershwinesque than the orchestral version. The Bernstein version is what started my love for Gershwin's music but try to hear the original some time. On YouTube, you can search "Rhapsody peter wilson" for a sample.
Al Final el beneficiado de este proyecto fuimos nosotros los Venezolanos y nuestro Sistema de Orquestas, el creyo que podia cambiar a la juventud y a una sociedad amante de los SPORTS, Holliwood Estrellas de Cine y Musica Rock, no supo ver el problema desde un punto de vista SOCIAL y COMUNITARIO, para el Yanque toda su sociedad GIRA EN TORNO AL CAPITAL, no queremos Orquestas, eso no vende lo que vende son las MARCAS y sus Agentes de Bolsa que son Atletas Farandula Fashion Lujo Movies & IDOLS.
I love Lenny's work but he seems to be doing his best impression of Liberace here. Way too flamboyant, no sense of continuity, all flash, no substance. Parts of it are quite nice.
I love Lenny's work but he seems to be doing his best impression of Liberace here. Way too flamboyant, no sense of continuity, all flash, no substance.
I love Lenny's work but he seems to be doing his best impression of Liberace here. Way too flamboyant, no sense of continuity, all flash, no substance.
bernstein, you fool! this "interpretation" is really a butchering! props to the orchestra for carrying your sorry old self patiently through this utter travesty!
bernstein is a dufus his "interpretatiion" is really a butchering! props to the orchestra for patiently carrying his sorry old self through that utter travesty!
This work always brings tears of JOY to my eyes, anytime I hear it. What a masterpiece! Also, I had no idea that Bernstein played! And, now, I'll go hear the rest of it - Kevin Cole's version, perhaps. :0)
Actually, Berstein's version is sorely lacking and is not the arrangement George intended it to be. If you what the definitive, restored version, as George, himself, intended and played, seek out Kevin Cole's; he is the world's best Gershwin interpreter---bar none! That's right! Google Kevin Cole and then forget the rest. No one can touch him!
@rupdaddy Fucking genius. I was led to this from Tonight west Side Story. Fucking musical genius. He could possibly play this blind folded with no orchestra!
Musicalmente e l'uomo del ventesimo secolo, valente pianista, uno dei migliori direttori d'orchestra del periodo , compositore dal jazz al musical sia drammatico che leggero ,alla musica sacra e alla sinfonica, insegnante di musica.
This song is so American. If you hear other songs of this type they're just not the same, this song just sounds like new york, or chicago. Like when you think of the American city, this song explains it.
Love the piece, and hey, Bernstein's no slouch himself. As far as American classical composers/musicians of the twentieth century, he's probably the one who's incorporated jazz most effectively into his pieces.
Wow, what a discovery. This is truely inspiring stuff...and accounts for so many scores that have occured in the late 20th Century. So many "genius" composers owe a lot of Gershwin.
A GENIUS PLAYING A GENIUS...is the best interpretation I listen from Rhapsody in Blue...only the envious or loosers doesn't like Bernstein playing the piano...THE FACT IS:
in this life, existed only ONE GEORGE GERSHWIN...and existed only ONE LEONARD BERNSTEIN...THE BEST OF THE BEST
@flylooper yeah, he surely is a great conductor, even more: A teacher of music, specially to the young generation. But in my opinion, also one of the remarkable concert-pianist of the last century. Go and look, how hard "concert pianists" have to work on their piece they are going to present!? And how many of them conduct and rehearse AND PLAY that piece at the same time?
I'm not taking a thing away from that video. Bernstein is my favorite conductor. In fact the first recording I ever had of the Rhapsody was with Bernstein and the NYP. When I learned it myself, I had Oscar Levant's version in my possession. Levant, who was a close friend of Gershwin, played it about quarter note = 80-90.
I've since gotten a version with Michael Tilson Thomas playing it faster (and cleaner) with the exact same instrumentation as Grofé scored. I loved it.
So it's not note-perfect. Absolutely great and so lively. We are so spoiled by studio recordings all over-dubbed etc. I would rather hear him take chances and keep the spirit and fire in it!
@TheChurchOfVladimir -I vote you to be that person. One less abusive person on earth would not be missed for a moment. To not give your superiors one ounce of credit for their originality,and to pretend that this is not the case-makes you an awful liar,or even worse-awfully stupid.
@TheChurchOfVladimir -How dare you call the brilliant Bernstein a third rate copy cat. West side story and other great works were his creations. What besides negative smut have you ever written. He was a great conductor as well as a very gifted concert pianist. What were you ever noted for aside for a bad mouth,and a lot of untrue statements of your superiors.
@TheChurchOfVladimir I agree, McCartney failed doing 'classical' music. Zappa though, was a master in writing for modern ensembles and orchestra's. He just didn't had a classical education, which resulted in another approach to classical music. An approach which is nevertheless very interesting and absolutely renowing. Zappa is my absolute hero and I wonder if you have listened to his writings for 'classical' ensembles...
N.B. May I also ask why you're being so conservative in your taste/view?
@TheChurchOfVladimir 'Long stretches of clumsy transitions from one badly orchestrated idea to another.' Could you be more specific?
For example, take the beginning of his Pianoconcerto in F. What's wrong with the transition between the starting theme by the timpani's and the 'romantic jazzy'-string theme. Following this beginning, what's wrong with the orchestration of the 'main-theme' started on piano, continued with the whole orchestra? What's wrong with the transition to the swing rhythm?!
@TheChurchOfVladimir Zappa was in fact a classical composer. Boulez conducted some of his music, the Ensemble Modern played his music, the LSO played his music and many other modern ensembles. Varese was a naturalized American, who wrote his most significant oeuvre in the States (his German material burned down along with his house). You should listen to Reich, especially music for Mallet, Organ and Voice, Music for 18 Musicians (most definitely that one), Different Trains and Come Out.
What Orchestra is he conducting? ....and what DVD is this from.... and damn why couldn't: RUIZDECHAVEZ upload this in two-parts so we could have the whole piece: I FELT AN EPIC ENDING to NO EVAIL!!!!
@thetruthis24 Orchestra: New York Philharmonic, DVD From Deuche Grammophon, BERNSTEIN GERSHWIN 00440 073 4513. I WILL UPLOAD THE FULL VERSION IN TWO PARTS.
@PJinBston I make it short, Gershwin as a composer has his place in history. No doubt. Bernstein too, but for me with a remarkable difference, he was a genius! Any (negative) critics of his musical work seems -to me- absolutely absurd! The TASTE whether man like a music or not, is a different thing. So, dont mix that together.
Gershwin and Bernstein were geniuses. Bernstein's compositions are brilliant; and I agree, sometimes his choruses sound like angry mobs. This usually happens when his choruses ARE angry mobs; try checking out "Mass." Bernstein has the ability to compose angry and harsh music, as well as lyrical and beautiful music. Often, both are found in the same large works, like "West Side Story."
Gershwin was essential to the progression of American music, which would be very different without him.
@PJinBston Was Bernstein a third-rate composer? Sure. I'll agree to that, his music never spoke to me that much. But his true legacy is as a conductor, lecturer and as an electric personality in the world of music. Not every figure in music should be judged solely by their compositions.
From 4:58 is just a pure moment of bliss! G must had spoken with the genious of the Muse of the music when he wrote this special piece of master piece !
@PJinBston By making such comments, you're not only showcasing your idiocy, you are also making it clear to us that you have absolutely no understanding of music history at all.
'How to make a Gershwin' by adding a majority of Copland to the whole is implying that Gershwin was copying Copland. This is however simply not possible since Gershwin finished his Rhapsody in Blue in 1924 and Copland was at the time studying in Paris and about to finish his Organ Concerto.
@PJinBston You keep calling pieces by Gershwin 'crap', 'horrible' and pieces by other composers better. But where exactly are you basing this on, other than your personal taste? I think it's rather uninteresting to call Gerswhins music (in this case) 'horrible', 'crap' etc. without giving an argument. Makes the fact that Gershwin drew inspiration from contemporaries him a bad composer? Or makes the fact that Gershwin drew inspiration from contemporaries his music 'horrible' or 'crap'?
@TheChurchOfVladimir Calling compositions like 'RiB' and 'Pianoconcerto in F' nothing more than nice melodies (at least, that's what you're implying), is ignorant imo. I wouldn't know where to start to convince you that Gershwins compositions are not even close to 'just nice melodies'. Ofcourse, Gershwin drew much inspiration from others. But how original was Bach? And didn't Boulez drew heavy on Stravinsky and the second Vienna school?
@TheChurchOfVladimir So my question: what makes (e.g.) Pianoconcerto in F in your opinion 'nothing more than just a nice melody'?
N.B. Apart from the fact that it's for me very surreal to convince an American from the importance of some of the music from his country. Haven't you thought of Charles Ives? Aaron Copland? GEORGE GERSWHIN? Frank Zappa? Edgard Varese? John Adams? Steve Reich? John Cage? Leonard Bernstein? Charles Mingus? Duke Ellington? Wayne Shorter?
@PJinBston Every moron (even you) is able to notice that the Organ Concerto contains no characteristic Gershwin-jazz elements or rhythms (it's not even 'jazzy' at all), which however are clearly audible in Coplands 1926 piano concerto. By the time Copland finished his piano concerto, Gershwin already completed his piano concerto a year earlier.
The fact that you don't think it's tastful is probably saying more about your taste than it does about the music in question.
Funny and schizophrenic the way you talk about a genius like Gershwin. I'm always amazed and truly amused by such pompous, clueless idiots like you, who have zero talent themselves but talk about the greatest artists of our planets as if they're above them....keep it coming! It's hilarious.
@TheAtkinsoj I apologize for my ignorant, stupid, conceited American. He is a disgrace to this great country.
Elmo1835 7 hours ago
United Airlines thinks they wrote this masterpiece.
KidneyShanker 6 days ago
Listening to Berstein's thoughts on Beethoven, I understand why he felt the way he did about Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" note @ top .I think Gershwin was coming at classical music from the sensibility of a modernist and not as a classical musician. The difference is a modernist will take different traditions / styles and marry them together to create a new language / idiom in the same genre. A classically trained musician will never leave the genre or change the vocabulary and grammar of it.
eleni1968 1 week ago
This is what you would call a master at work.
galaxion2 1 week ago
Love this at the end of Manhattan.
AceBG27 2 weeks ago
i'm in the process of learning this piece, and seeing this makes me simultaneously want to master it and curl up into a ball and die.
redhedbedhed 2 weeks ago
"RHapsody ..."of course , sorry !
clairelille 3 weeks ago
C'est mon interprétation préférée de " Rapsody in Blue ", en tout cas celle qui me touche le plus ...
clairelille 3 weeks ago
Beautiful - but why is it cut short?
missycake1 4 weeks ago
Great!
Thanks for the upload.
CrayonLaser 1 month ago
LB recorded the Rhapsody in the early '60s with the NY Philharmonic. I still regard it as the quintessential version of the Gershwin classic.
jackpark7927 1 month ago
I'm with Snidely and I didn't think anyone could surpass Oscar Levant. This has technique and wit to burn.
bassavino 1 month ago
OMG 1337 LIKES. Now that THATS out of my system, beautiful performance :-).
Picklesaregreen101 1 month ago
damn brilliant! gershwin and bernstein -awesome
LAchickee 1 month ago
I am Indian now do any of you have some thing against me for listening just stfu and eenjoy!
rahulras 1 month ago
Gershwin's original family name was Gershkovitch - Russian Jews from Odessa.... can't beat the Jews when it comes to great music! the modern Western popmusic, btw, was 'invented' by Russian Jews in USA and the descendants of black slaves - because both ethnic groups could not get decent jobs during the great depression times in America so they joined forces and created a new sound.... starting with Jazz and then R & B and now the popmusic that we know in the sound of ppl like Britney Spears...
LoveAsianCulture 2 months ago
@LoveAsianCulture So jews are to blame for all the crap music made today then. thanks I will make a note of that..
terryowah 2 months ago 2
@terryowah i don't care about the crap music today, think about all the great music that came out in the 20th century (and is still coming, it's just not mainstream) and listen to it.
0live0wire0 2 months ago
@terryowah not jews necessarily. the credit for all the crap goes to the brit government and the elite group when they made a power-business plan to dominate the world and one of things was to promote non creative mediocracy. The start was simple-they created the beatles. that was the end of creative high quality music and beginning of music pornography. see james bond movies, its all there ;)
mikakrstic 2 months ago
@mikakrstic I'm sorry...Did you just say the British Government "created the Beatles"?
...Not only did you just break the Internet, but you just broke Music itself.
Please, for everybodys sake, just GTFO of our Internet.
TheAtkinsoj 2 months ago 2
@TheAtkinsoj Yes you better be sorry. It hurts to know the truth huh? Guess what dummie internet is ours and you belong with your queen you shit.
mikakrstic 2 months ago
@TheAtkinsoj This is an American music for Americans not for stink brit holes. Stop sinking our internet and go back to licking your queens ass.
mikakrstic 2 months ago
@mikakrstic Oh, I'm sorry. I totally didn't realise you owned Gershwin.
What a pity that a large portion of his music has been uploaded to YouTube, where literally millions of people can listen to it for free.
This must suck for you Yanks, who apparently 'own' Gershwin's music.
I feel so bad for you.
I'm going to listen to Rhapsody in Blue again now.
You poor, ignorant individual.
TheAtkinsoj 1 month ago 7
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@TheAtkinsoj Ok now it's clear I'm talking to a mentally disturbed. Go get help
mikakrstic 1 month ago
@mikakrstic Ok now it's clear I'm talking to a mentally disturbed. Go get help.
mikakrstic 1 month ago
@TheAtkinsoj Fafafafafafa, I am sorry I don't understand! : )
mikakrstic 2 months ago
WHAT??? WHERE'S THE END???
levineandrew100 2 months ago
Sheer genius. As previously stated, pure musician.
nanabexhoeft 2 months ago
Just love Gershwin. It reminds me of NYC.
veraluciagg 3 months ago
Don't we just love Gershwin.
karenzhong 3 months ago in playlist karenzhong最愛的影片
thats just left a really bad taste in my mouth, not having the end here. awful. (enjoyed it up to then). sorry!
k33am 3 months ago
Once I was having the worst day.... I came home, listened to this, bawled my eyes out at 06:00. It spoke straight to my heart and made everything better :)
ShadyNightCrow 3 months ago
Beautiful and what a pleasure to hear. Thanks for the post.
gcpropertymanagement 3 months ago
I'd give my left nut to have his left hand . . .
rickricardo94 3 months ago
hmm,..wow! To bad it ended.
shampoovta 4 months ago
Like one of the other comments I was going to hit the like button ,but when you choped off the best part.....:( .
12bar88 4 months ago
I think he butchered this in places. I've heard much better. And for all who think this was written in the 80's for United Airlines, it is Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin -- avalaible anywhere by numerous artists and orchestras.
sargeanton2 4 months ago 2
@sargeanton2 Bernstein makes two cuts in the music and slows the tempo to a crawl at one point. No big deal, but what he left out is good music. The original jazz band version of the Rhapsody is much more Gershwinesque than the orchestral version. The Bernstein version is what started my love for Gershwin's music but try to hear the original some time. On YouTube, you can search "Rhapsody peter wilson" for a sample.
TheStockwell 1 month ago
Is there a CD or DVD of this concert? PLEASE if someone knows let me know. Thanks G
Graemeandarchie 4 months ago
was this in driving miss daisy?
jhavid2 5 months ago
Quantas......The only way to fly.......
wong671wong 5 months ago 2
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GallopingGoulash 6 months ago
@GallopingGoulash i love you zealous rage
jhavid2 5 months ago
ＢＥＮＥ！ ＬＥＯ
guy6928 6 months ago
what year is this?
tromuniapp 6 months ago
I was about to click on the Like button, but cutting off the best part is simply criminal.
Safarisbuenosaires 6 months ago
This is just awesome.
bmoe8880 6 months ago
Good god the brass section is amazing. At 9:15 they almost sound like a synthesizer.
davidofpiano423 7 months ago
me encanta berstein, I like him very much, J'ai amiez leonard
saxomen 7 months ago
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Al Final el beneficiado de este proyecto fuimos nosotros los Venezolanos y nuestro Sistema de Orquestas, el creyo que podia cambiar a la juventud y a una sociedad amante de los SPORTS, Holliwood Estrellas de Cine y Musica Rock, no supo ver el problema desde un punto de vista SOCIAL y COMUNITARIO, para el Yanque toda su sociedad GIRA EN TORNO AL CAPITAL, no queremos Orquestas, eso no vende lo que vende son las MARCAS y sus Agentes de Bolsa que son Atletas Farandula Fashion Lujo Movies & IDOLS.
ELTIGRERO86 7 months ago
El piano es el soberano :)
Macross100 7 months ago
est-ce que je me trompe? mais je trouve beaucoup de similitude avec le concerto en G Majeur de Ravel !
mayou59500 7 months ago
Ahhh...the feeling of contentment :) How can 14 people dislike this.....
Dawltajum 8 months ago
@readhadonfire
of cause it's not - it's about 3 quarters
drmatweber 8 months ago
I love Lenny's work but he seems to be doing his best impression of Liberace here. Way too flamboyant, no sense of continuity, all flash, no substance. Parts of it are quite nice.
tegrat 9 months ago
I love Lenny's work but he seems to be doing his best impression of Liberace here. Way too flamboyant, no sense of continuity, all flash, no substance.
tegrat 9 months ago
I love Lenny's work but he seems to be doing his best impression of Liberace here. Way too flamboyant, no sense of continuity, all flash, no substance.
tegrat 9 months ago
is the whole thing rhapsody in blue?
redheadonfire2 9 months ago
there is my friend nathan goldstein the violinist with red hair dead center at 4:58 he used to give recitals with a chamber music group
spacepatrolman 9 months ago
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bernstein, you fool! this "interpretation" is really a butchering! props to the orchestra for carrying your sorry old self patiently through this utter travesty!
aliberi20 9 months ago
bernstein is a dufus his "interpretatiion" is really a butchering! props to the orchestra for patiently carrying his sorry old self through that utter travesty!
aliberi20 9 months ago
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aliberi20 9 months ago
This work always brings tears of JOY to my eyes, anytime I hear it. What a masterpiece! Also, I had no idea that Bernstein played! And, now, I'll go hear the rest of it - Kevin Cole's version, perhaps. :0)
shout2g 9 months ago
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shout2g 9 months ago
Actually, Berstein's version is sorely lacking and is not the arrangement George intended it to be. If you what the definitive, restored version, as George, himself, intended and played, seek out Kevin Cole's; he is the world's best Gershwin interpreter---bar none! That's right! Google Kevin Cole and then forget the rest. No one can touch him!
drch1p 10 months ago
oh it ended at the best part
music interruptus
Prancer1231 10 months ago
Gershwin and Bernstein are by far the greatest contemporary composers to ever write music.
tetrisclock 10 months ago
13 people have a sad mental illness!!!
bongdrop 10 months ago
Thank you for posting!
solonbrown 11 months ago
holy shit, young Stanley Drucker!!!
randomisnotgood 11 months ago
oscar levant despised bernstein.
utubuser10 11 months ago
Dear God man!
Never stop Gershwin mid-flow...especially not then......
djrobo73 1 year ago
listen to how he hears/analyzes the music: it then goes into his hands
aamusc 1 year ago
I've heard a lot of performances of this piece, including Gershwin himself playing it. Bernstein's version is my hands-down favorite.
Snidely1000 1 year ago 25
@Snidely1000 Зачем порочить Великого маэстро! Ну не нравится, не слушайте, есть песенки Успенской и Михаила Круга- прямо туда!!!
npod1941 3 months ago
ユナイテッド航空のやつやな。メチャええなぁ。
aimaniajp 1 year ago
As for me, Bernstein is the best performer of Gershwin's music.
I listened to F-dur concert here on YouTube, and now can't find it.
PablitoBodhisattva 1 year ago 2
Brilliant performance!
MissDothleen 1 year ago
WONDERFUL!!!!
handsmusical 1 year ago
doesn't even need sheet music...what a beast.
rupdaddy 1 year ago
@rupdaddy Fucking genius. I was led to this from Tonight west Side Story. Fucking musical genius. He could possibly play this blind folded with no orchestra!
pix042 1 year ago 2
Thanks for uploading this.
erixmix 1 year ago
And we're all in the bathtub now... drinking bathtub gin
VwDetour420 1 year ago
What a great, great human. He could do it all, compose, play, conduct, teach. Master of all. Pure musician.
letsif 1 year ago 17
Thumbs up if you like how the trombonist's cheeks puff way out
blubryscone 1 year ago 3
Great playing; rotten film direction.
BarbaraLassiter1938 1 year ago
VERY GOOD PERFORMANCE!
sirasy 1 year ago
oh my god, ONLY men in the orchestra!!! Is that a men club?
sirasy 1 year ago
@sirasy I see six women in the string section...
rekab7070 1 year ago
Musicalmente e l'uomo del ventesimo secolo, valente pianista, uno dei migliori direttori d'orchestra del periodo , compositore dal jazz al musical sia drammatico che leggero ,alla musica sacra e alla sinfonica, insegnante di musica.
Non c'è dubbio, E Lui.
zelig46
zelig46 1 year ago
9 people need to get ear surgery
Alffovinni 1 year ago
my favourite piece ever XD
yeahyeahnatnat 1 year ago
Damn youtube's 10 min max rule!!!
yoshimanff7 1 year ago
showoff
MrAusfahren 1 year ago
@MrAusfahren lol
Lullabisator 1 year ago
I am appalled that you didn't feature the entire performance of that breath taking piece.
One of the most defining moments of my life was seeing the great Leonard Bernstein in person in Dallas many years ago.
He and the sweeping majesty of the music took my breath away.
And it still does.
CaptKundalini 1 year ago
Bernstein understands the nuances of American music in this piece. He may have met Gershwin. His interpretation is the best that I have heard.
gojerrie2000 1 year ago
@gojerrie2000 It is incredible isn't it?? He really does feel it!! Phenomenal pacing!
GABYCONSTANZA 1 year ago
ahhhh cuts off at my favourite bit!!! awesome stuff tho
tailendcharlie 1 year ago
This song is so American. If you hear other songs of this type they're just not the same, this song just sounds like new york, or chicago. Like when you think of the American city, this song explains it.
BlenderFreak777 1 year ago
wooooow!!!!!
mercuryila87 1 year ago
fantastic!!!
Bertamoura 1 year ago
BUENISIMO!!!!
hugobearpiano 1 year ago
he's fucking amazing at piano oh em gee i could listen to this over and over again and never get tired of his amazing piano skills.
PENCUTSPAPER 1 year ago
Immortal
tattaGR 1 year ago
Raw...
cmw1226 1 year ago
This touched my soul...
blqkvo 1 year ago 2
magnifique c'est un plaisir
MegaAssyl 1 year ago 2
Love the piece, and hey, Bernstein's no slouch himself. As far as American classical composers/musicians of the twentieth century, he's probably the one who's incorporated jazz most effectively into his pieces.
BenMcCormack91 1 year ago
You left out the final fortissimo piano?? Criminal!
7rays 1 year ago 47
@7rays In my information you can see a Playlist with the complete work
ruizdechavez 1 year ago
@ruizdechavez Could you make the next part a "video response" to this video?
Dejital 1 year ago 2
@Dejital DONE!! Also in tne description is a link for the playlist of the complete work.
ruizdechavez 1 year ago
@Dejital DONE!! Also in tne description is a link for the playlist of the complete work.
ruizdechavez 1 year ago
Lovely. We just had a free concert here in the park (Fuengirola) of this piece of music...
sewellanne 1 year ago
Wow, what a discovery. This is truely inspiring stuff...and accounts for so many scores that have occured in the late 20th Century. So many "genius" composers owe a lot of Gershwin.
ChrisMcPhail 1 year ago
reminds me tom and jerry... xD
cafity 1 year ago
hey wheres the lid on the piano?
2juli4 1 year ago
Bernstein was a freakin' Boss. Too bad the entire song couldn't upload.
Cowzilla15 1 year ago
A GENIUS PLAYING A GENIUS...is the best interpretation I listen from Rhapsody in Blue...only the envious or loosers doesn't like Bernstein playing the piano...THE FACT IS:
in this life, existed only ONE GEORGE GERSHWIN...and existed only ONE LEONARD BERNSTEIN...THE BEST OF THE BEST
themanolo9999 1 year ago
Wow, I've never seen someone conduct AND play piano. That's awesome.
Ragtime44Films 1 year ago
love cadenza at 8:07
heyhit 1 year ago
I've never cared for his interp on the cross-hands section. I always like a steady, driving beat there, like a train speeding across the plains.
A little sloppy, too, in parts. But heck, the guy's a conductor, not a concert pianist.
flylooper 1 year ago
@flylooper yeah, he surely is a great conductor, even more: A teacher of music, specially to the young generation. But in my opinion, also one of the remarkable concert-pianist of the last century. Go and look, how hard "concert pianists" have to work on their piece they are going to present!? And how many of them conduct and rehearse AND PLAY that piece at the same time?
MegaRon60 1 year ago
@MegaRon60
I'm not taking a thing away from that video. Bernstein is my favorite conductor. In fact the first recording I ever had of the Rhapsody was with Bernstein and the NYP. When I learned it myself, I had Oscar Levant's version in my possession. Levant, who was a close friend of Gershwin, played it about quarter note = 80-90.
I've since gotten a version with Michael Tilson Thomas playing it faster (and cleaner) with the exact same instrumentation as Grofé scored. I loved it.
flylooper 1 year ago
chi dice male a Bernstein ha proprio la faccia di BRONZO
MrPiccolomib 1 year ago
Go Lenny!
GanoMaganza 1 year ago
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jym99999 1 year ago
@jym99999 in my channel you can find the Rhasody complete in two parts
ruizdechavez 1 year ago
@jym99999 in my channel you can find the Rhasody complete in two parts
ruizdechavez 1 year ago
@ruizdechavez Okay Thx =DD
jym99999 1 year ago
Best Tapping Solo ever!
gawpertron 1 year ago
So it's not note-perfect. Absolutely great and so lively. We are so spoiled by studio recordings all over-dubbed etc. I would rather hear him take chances and keep the spirit and fire in it!
maritay12 1 year ago
GAHHHHH CUT OFF RIGHT BEFORE THE BEST PART! I wanna punch the screen!
simdoubleD 1 year ago 45
Awesome
paulostroff99 1 year ago
two hands dancing
jhonwica 1 year ago
Bernstein and Gershwin, 2 great masters of the classical/jazz crossover genre.
SonofDostojevskij 1 year ago
Bernstein isn't that good at the piano. Too bad.
amrite 1 year ago
@TheChurchOfVladimir -I vote you to be that person. One less abusive person on earth would not be missed for a moment. To not give your superiors one ounce of credit for their originality,and to pretend that this is not the case-makes you an awful liar,or even worse-awfully stupid.
paulostroff99 1 year ago
@TheChurchOfVladimir -How dare you call the brilliant Bernstein a third rate copy cat. West side story and other great works were his creations. What besides negative smut have you ever written. He was a great conductor as well as a very gifted concert pianist. What were you ever noted for aside for a bad mouth,and a lot of untrue statements of your superiors.
paulostroff99 1 year ago
@midifromhell -Bernstein was a very gifted pianist as well as a great conductor of one of the finest symphony orchestras. We love you Lennie!
paulostroff99 1 year ago
Awesome
paulostroff99 1 year ago
@TheChurchOfVladimir I agree, McCartney failed doing 'classical' music. Zappa though, was a master in writing for modern ensembles and orchestra's. He just didn't had a classical education, which resulted in another approach to classical music. An approach which is nevertheless very interesting and absolutely renowing. Zappa is my absolute hero and I wonder if you have listened to his writings for 'classical' ensembles...
N.B. May I also ask why you're being so conservative in your taste/view?
chapter24 1 year ago
@TheChurchOfVladimir 'Long stretches of clumsy transitions from one badly orchestrated idea to another.' Could you be more specific?
For example, take the beginning of his Pianoconcerto in F. What's wrong with the transition between the starting theme by the timpani's and the 'romantic jazzy'-string theme. Following this beginning, what's wrong with the orchestration of the 'main-theme' started on piano, continued with the whole orchestra? What's wrong with the transition to the swing rhythm?!
chapter24 1 year ago
@TheChurchOfVladimir Zappa was in fact a classical composer. Boulez conducted some of his music, the Ensemble Modern played his music, the LSO played his music and many other modern ensembles. Varese was a naturalized American, who wrote his most significant oeuvre in the States (his German material burned down along with his house). You should listen to Reich, especially music for Mallet, Organ and Voice, Music for 18 Musicians (most definitely that one), Different Trains and Come Out.
chapter24 1 year ago
@chapter24 -Boulez has long been associated with jazz as well as classical music.
paulostroff99 1 year ago
Being "classical" is not synonymous with "good". In fact it's completely unrelated to it. I don't get why people get so worked up over the word.
midifromhell 1 year ago
Why can't you delete the boring sad comments from PJ the total tit!!!!
sombuttra 1 year ago
@sombuttra already fixed!
ruizdechavez 1 year ago
What Orchestra is he conducting? ....and what DVD is this from.... and damn why couldn't: RUIZDECHAVEZ upload this in two-parts so we could have the whole piece: I FELT AN EPIC ENDING to NO EVAIL!!!!
PLZ fix this!!!!
thetruthis24 1 year ago
@thetruthis24 Orchestra: New York Philharmonic, DVD From Deuche Grammophon, BERNSTEIN GERSHWIN 00440 073 4513. I WILL UPLOAD THE FULL VERSION IN TWO PARTS.
ruizdechavez 1 year ago
Whenever I hear this music, it reminds me of New York City for some reason. I know United Airlines used this music a few years back in there ads.
nedarc 1 year ago
@PJinBston I make it short, Gershwin as a composer has his place in history. No doubt. Bernstein too, but for me with a remarkable difference, he was a genius! Any (negative) critics of his musical work seems -to me- absolutely absurd! The TASTE whether man like a music or not, is a different thing. So, dont mix that together.
MegaRon60 1 year ago
Gershwin and Bernstein were geniuses. Bernstein's compositions are brilliant; and I agree, sometimes his choruses sound like angry mobs. This usually happens when his choruses ARE angry mobs; try checking out "Mass." Bernstein has the ability to compose angry and harsh music, as well as lyrical and beautiful music. Often, both are found in the same large works, like "West Side Story."
Gershwin was essential to the progression of American music, which would be very different without him.
jazzman5750 1 year ago
@PJinBston Was Bernstein a third-rate composer? Sure. I'll agree to that, his music never spoke to me that much. But his true legacy is as a conductor, lecturer and as an electric personality in the world of music. Not every figure in music should be judged solely by their compositions.
TimboBandit 1 year ago
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PJinBston 1 year ago
I'd forgotten how puerile these comments could be.
Whad' I do, stumble into a Mensa food fight?
7855waldo 1 year ago
music is music who cares who did what for how many jelly beans.
yetiandroid 1 year ago
Rhapsody in Blue...
TheCARBUNESCO 1 year ago
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PJinBston 1 year ago
From 4:58 is just a pure moment of bliss! G must had spoken with the genious of the Muse of the music when he wrote this special piece of master piece !
This version by LB is one of the best !!
TheMauvetys 1 year ago
I heard this in Disney's Fantasia first .... loved it so intense ... Rhapsody in Blue !!!
Borat911 1 year ago
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PJinBston 1 year ago
@TheChurchOfVladimir What do you know about music? This piece is a masterpiece, a classic by now. Who are you worm to say so stupid things?!
tasteism 1 year ago
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PJinBston 1 year ago 2
@PJinBston You are an authorized and famous music critic and I bow to your verdict!
What an asshole Bernstein was to play such a crap. Ok, Bernstein was nothing compared to you!
tasteism 1 year ago
@PJinBston I wish I had the ability to write "crap" as good as this :-)
MartMart 1 year ago
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PJinBston 1 year ago
@PJinBston By making such comments, you're not only showcasing your idiocy, you are also making it clear to us that you have absolutely no understanding of music history at all.
'How to make a Gershwin' by adding a majority of Copland to the whole is implying that Gershwin was copying Copland. This is however simply not possible since Gershwin finished his Rhapsody in Blue in 1924 and Copland was at the time studying in Paris and about to finish his Organ Concerto.
chapter24 1 year ago
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PJinBston 1 year ago
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PJinBston 1 year ago
@PJinBston You keep calling pieces by Gershwin 'crap', 'horrible' and pieces by other composers better. But where exactly are you basing this on, other than your personal taste? I think it's rather uninteresting to call Gerswhins music (in this case) 'horrible', 'crap' etc. without giving an argument. Makes the fact that Gershwin drew inspiration from contemporaries him a bad composer? Or makes the fact that Gershwin drew inspiration from contemporaries his music 'horrible' or 'crap'?
chapter24 1 year ago
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TheChurchOfVladimir 1 year ago
@TheChurchOfVladimir Calling compositions like 'RiB' and 'Pianoconcerto in F' nothing more than nice melodies (at least, that's what you're implying), is ignorant imo. I wouldn't know where to start to convince you that Gershwins compositions are not even close to 'just nice melodies'. Ofcourse, Gershwin drew much inspiration from others. But how original was Bach? And didn't Boulez drew heavy on Stravinsky and the second Vienna school?
chapter24 1 year ago
@TheChurchOfVladimir So my question: what makes (e.g.) Pianoconcerto in F in your opinion 'nothing more than just a nice melody'?
N.B. Apart from the fact that it's for me very surreal to convince an American from the importance of some of the music from his country. Haven't you thought of Charles Ives? Aaron Copland? GEORGE GERSWHIN? Frank Zappa? Edgard Varese? John Adams? Steve Reich? John Cage? Leonard Bernstein? Charles Mingus? Duke Ellington? Wayne Shorter?
chapter24 1 year ago
@PJinBston Every moron (even you) is able to notice that the Organ Concerto contains no characteristic Gershwin-jazz elements or rhythms (it's not even 'jazzy' at all), which however are clearly audible in Coplands 1926 piano concerto. By the time Copland finished his piano concerto, Gershwin already completed his piano concerto a year earlier.
The fact that you don't think it's tastful is probably saying more about your taste than it does about the music in question.
chapter24 1 year ago
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TheChurchOfVladimir 1 year ago
@PJinBston Yeah, I don't get it either. What's so special about this?
Dodo251 1 year ago
@PJinBston
Funny and schizophrenic the way you talk about a genius like Gershwin. I'm always amazed and truly amused by such pompous, clueless idiots like you, who have zero talent themselves but talk about the greatest artists of our planets as if they're above them....keep it coming! It's hilarious.
23Babybell 1 year ago