Leonard Bernstein Knocks Music off Concertmaster's Stand

[Phantom663]

That was probably Jim from Accounting. No one likes Jim...

[yan2776]

But Leonard Bernstein did it by accident, right?

[Ferdi2375]

It looks like he heard the violinist play wrong, so he knocked his music of stand so he could not play! hahaha

[Capcoor]

Good timpanist though.

[Shota871]

He also did that conducting the third movement of Mahler 6 during the climax.

[theothercanadian]

Another reason why musicians hate wire stands.

[erty1800]

my conductor mirrored the action of this conductor, i am a cellist, lucky it fell on the floor so i could read it and i picked it up during a rest.

[DJChrisBradley]

Haha that's funny.  Much respect to Bernstein and this orchestra.

[macree01]

They handled it like complete professionals though. One kept playing , while the other quietly lifted up the stand as quick as he could and put the music back on.

[alex1211yt]

lmao that happened to me last year

[eugenenakamura]

In the dress rehearsal:

Concertmaster: "Maestro, you MUST give us a bigger cue!"

Bernstein: "You want a bigger cue huh... you just wait."

[trumpetdudeman07]

now THAT'S a cue!

[alan1963]

And concertmaster 1st violinist Gerhard Hetzel said "HEY!! What are ya doing?? You knock the 1st violin music score off my stand, you freak!!"

[winrx]

@alan1963 Actually I believe that is the younger Rainer Kuchl at the helm.....

[winrx]

Pfftt, these guys from Vienna can play these staples of the German repertoire in their sleep....

[ezev8logos]

maybe he wasmad with the violinist and this was his revenge

[classiccandle27]

LOLL

Bernstein's like, "You don't need the music! It should be all in your head, rightttt?"

-__-

[Huddiethegreat]

Take that

[JWFan221]

I feel SO Bad FOr Leonard, Oh Goodness that would be embarrassing!

[mahlermahlermahler1]

This is not the first time Lenny did this. There's some Mahler, maybe the 4th in this same Musikverein where he does it again.

It's pure Lenny

[mortalfrog0815]

why isn't this video more popular?

[BBRENTTAGHAPP]

Haha very well handled :)

[k1n6d4v3]

It seems he disliked his performance. ^^

[Gustavling]

He didn't need the music anyways.

[chichi123xx]

HAHA YES

[otherjoe1234]

owned

[carlhess]

Why was the VP using wire stands anyway??