Bernstein. Stravinsky 1/6

[Tengent]

What piece is this? I've never heard it.

[NiclasThobaben]

I dont konow why, but Leonardt Bernstein reminds me of Columbo! Just awesome!

[tomatoherb]

Ugh, I love how he doesn't talk down to them! I wish I could have been a kid in this audience.

[Jimbothenoob]

"Best loved by children..." So true! When I was eleven the only classical music that I could really get into was Stravinsky's Rite of Spring because it was so detached from theory.

[TitoSchipa65]

Bernstein, one of the most incredible man of the XX century...

[MrLosadita]

happy birthday Igor, wonderful

[guinnes2000]

Whatever, I think Sibelius was the greatest composer at that time, a gamechanger of his own kind, but no one could really follow his 7th symphony. Not even Sibelius himself^^

[JupiterIV]

@guinnes2000 Then why'd he even bother writing it?

[bratschekind]

@guinnes2000 Sibelius is great but by 1962 he was dead and hadn't written anything in more than 30 years.

[JeffW77]

This piece is on at least one record on the Columbia label from the mid-'60s or early '70s. I think I saw it on a record called "Stravinsky's Greatest Hits," or perhaps in a terrific 5 or 6 disc box set in a silver cover. Hope you find the recording.

[Joshlama]

I need this recording of Happy Birthday!

[realitycheck888]

Stravinsky fucked up is another way of looking at it and it is certainly not obvious that he was the 'worlds greatest composer' by the time he died. He walked out of a room once when someone proposed B. Britten as an alternative and I certainly think Britten's works better Stravinsky's atonal period.

[thejazztenor]

@realitycheck888 I think he said at the time, not by the time he died.

[nonthere]

@realitycheck888 This seems to be a followup to another comment I can't find here. How did Stravinsky fuck up? I certainly agree with you that his atonal period didn't inspire me the way this one, Oedipus Rex and the Rake's Progress did. And it sucks that Britten died when he did, as his last works were taking an uncharted and fresh direction (or, as Python would say, "was he just an old puff who wrote tunes"). So since your comment seems to be in medias res, how did Igor fuck up?

[MrAkihiros]

@realitycheck888 That would be your opinion, but it is true that Igor felt a bit threatened by Britten. But listening to Britten now I wonder why Stravinsky would feel insecure.

[loboris1995]

What a lunck ^^

[gabinavarro]

una maravilla! gracias!

[smarquestube]

Thank you for this!

[vilemonkey]

Nice. thx for this :P