BEETHOVEN - Symphony no. 3 "EROICA" - Leonard Bernstein (3-4)

[16jjfb]

I love Leonard Bernstein like no other, but there are no women at all in this orchestra!!!

[thomasanswered]

@16jjfb Then, we might safely say that your love for Leonard Bernstein and the Wiener Phiharmoniker's lack of women are not mutally exclusive. Or, do you perhaps imagine that there is some misogyny about?

[saxyviolist]

I love this piece! I remember it was in the Sample Music on Windows Vista...then over the summer I saw the Philadelphia Orchestra and I kept wondering how I recognized it....and back when I first heard it was before I got into my playing, and classical music.

LOVE THIS. and love Bernstein!!

[franckfarina]

Ahh I love Bernstein!

[mario54671]

He's probably one of the only conductors I've heard who DOESN'T hold that last note over 4 times as long as it should be. It always bugs me how people seem to think there's a fermata, but I like the very short note that Beethoven wrote, I think it's kind of funny in a way. People kind of distort that little "joke" by extending the note, I guess to make it sound more "grand," as it is a 45+ minute symphony....but still...you simply can't change what's written.

[LOTRzagorath]

@mario54671 I agree completely. The probably just mistake the fermata that's over the pause at the end of the bar for being over the note. Personally I love the ending as it is, it reminds me a bit of the end of the first movement of the 5th.

[mario54671]

@LOTRzagorath Yeah, it's almost kind of a one in a way, where Beethoven stays on the dominant note for so long, and someone who's never heard of the symphony would expect a long E-flat to finish it off, but we get a short note, kind of like Beethoven teasing the audience. Changing it and holding it really ruins that...

[MrHeekeunYoo]

WoWWWWWWWW!!! bernstein!!!

[iguarni]

bravoooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooo!!!!!!!!!