Leonard Bernstein playing rock music

[azkeyz]

I find myself in a position of throwing myself at bernstein as if he were some kind of strong fortress to hide under from all this trash they call music.

all the theory in the universe isn't going to make anyone a musician.

[kdiamantikos]

Indeed... it is mixolydian...

[yukikoforevernoise]

LEONARD BERNSTEIN SINGING A SONG ABOUT MARIJUANA!?

[liszt141]

Bernstein. Brilliant pianist. Brilliant conductor. Brilliant composer.

Horrifying singer.

[quelbop]

Thanks Bernstein. I'm going to use this mixolydian mode when i improvise for dance classes.

[bassavino]

Orin O'Brien @ :44 is why I became a bassist!

[DJChrisBradley]

And you could practically calibrate a metronome to his playing...unreal

[DJChrisBradley]

What a monster of a musician...he will forever remain one of my greatest inspirations. I'm not an unaccomplished musician myself. I played my first paying gig at age 12 (on trombone) and got a full music scholarship when I graduated high school, I write electronic music and perform in rock bands from time to time, I've done some things, but still..I'd kill to have half the talent he had.

[violonistchris]

no doubt he was one of the best musicians ever existed ....but ...he was talking too much ..he was a lot on tv and he was ...a populist ( i m always talking about his character ) . I dont know i dont like this attitude he was over reacting in everything ...that much of talking and self-assertion it ruins my image of him as a musician .

[CCConservatory]

Composer. Conductor. Teacher. Inspiration. Music never had a better friend.

[L4sleeko]

Is that Orin Obrien @ 42 ? Wow !

?8^D

[smanticus]

What a great guy.

[BerlinerStadtschloss]

Was für ein weitgefächerter Geist, was für ein Musiker!

Das hätten wir uns auch in Deutschland gewünscht, einen Karajan (der zumindest genauso gut aussah), der uns und unseren Kindern Klassik und Jazz erklärt hätte!"

[rockclimber21]

now I REALLY want to know what mixolydian means.

[TimboBandit]

@rockclimber21 It's what you call the collection of whole steps and half steps you get when you start the Major scale from the fifth degree

The modes aren't "different" scales, as much as they're just different ways to think about the major scale

[rockclimber21]

@TimboBandit

thanks! (I didn't pay enough attention in my music theory class)

[MrPiano90]

@TimboBandit, one of the 7 Church Modes! I love incoporating the modes into music composition.

[Capcoor]

@TimboBandit G to G,no sharps.

[PabloTerraga]

@TimboBandit Dear friend, you're wrong. The major scale is one of the 7 modes. Our musical world was modal just before it changes to tonal several centurys ago ; )

[mightyafrowhitey]

@rockclimber21 It actually is a different scale if you play is modally, in the key of the mixolydian. It's used in jazz a lot, and in country a WHOLE lot. It's basically just a diatonic major scale with a flat 7th.

[mikejr41387]

@rockclimber21 haha, take any major scale and lower the leading tone (7th) a half step, and thats mixolydian. example, g major with f natural, or c major with a b flat

[pleximanic]

@rockclimber21 It is the fifth degree of the major scale,

like G7 In The Key of C!

If you are in C major you just start on the fifth note "G" and play up an octave and stop on the note G and you have played the G mixolydian scale!

When you REALLY understand the meaning of 5 to 1 you will have the key to the diatonic  harmonic system!

It is pure musical mathematic magic!

[MegaGum1]

@rockclimber21  Yes, they are the things which Anakin Skywalker had in such high numbers that it made him the Chose One.

[ptm5150]

@rockclimber21 The common name for the seventh of the eight church modes, the authentic mode on G. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance the Mixolydian mode was described in two ways: as the diatonic octave species from g to g′, divided at d′ and composed of a fourth species of 5th (tone–tone–semitone–tone) plus a first species of 4th (tone–semitone–tone), thus g–a–b–c′–d′+ d′–e′–f′–g′; and as a mode whose FINAL was g and whose AMBITUS was f–g′,

[ptm5150]

@rockclimber21 with extensions ‘by licence’ up to a′ and even down to e. In addition to the final, the note d′ – the tenor of the corresponding seventh psalm tone – was regarded as having an important melodic function in the fifth church mode.

In the Renaissance the term ‘Mixolydian’ was sometimes applied to polyphony. In modally ordered collections, pieces ending on G in cantus durus are usually divided into two groups using different clefs.

[ptm5150]

@rockclimber21 For example, in Palestrina's second book of Madrigali spirituali (1594), nos.24–7 use CHIAVETTE to represent the higher (authentic) Mixolydian mode, while nos.28–30 use normal soprano, alto, tenor and bass clefs to represent the lower (plagal) Hypomixolydian.

-Oxford Dictionary of Music

TimboBandit is right, that's exactly how we use it today but by coincidence I just happen to be looking at the history when I came across this video so why not paste it in...

[Ellie49]

Oh, I loved those programs as a young person! He influenced me SO much. (And, yes, I became a professional musician!)

[iteachbass]

At about 42 seconds, the bassist is Orin O'Brien, the first woman in the NY Philharmonic!

[RS1Comedy1Vids]

I don't get it... is he criticising the songs hes playing? or is he praising them? or is he just talking about modes and using famous songs as examples?

[drongovids]

@RS1Comedy1Vids bernstein loved all music. he's playing these for educational purposes

[brienkmeehan]

1:30 "My baby does the hanky panky ... mixolydian!" :-)

[ChronicMetamorphosis]

My God, the Bernstein covers are better than the originals!

[soaringvulture]

So many dimensions to Bernstein; maybe the best Broadway composer of all (and that's saying something), a top conductor, a skilled classical composer, great piano chops and a wonderful evangelist for music. He just stuns me.

Boy can't sing a lick, though.

[amatorynumber]

@soaringvulture Yeah, I can only add he was also funny, extrovert, could hold an audience on the palm of his hand, was rather good looking and wrote the Harvard lectures :-D he stuns me too!

[imperialpod]

@amatorynumber

He basically pwns anybody and everybody who has ever watched or will ever watch his videos here on youtube.

Now kneel suckers!

[7tigerlotus]

one of my favorite "Young Peoples Concerts' is the one where he discusses modes. thanks so much for posting!

[hermorobert]

UN Great compositor of classic music singing pop rock i never see this a lesson for the chapel of music.

[FungoBoy]

that was 2 minutes of win

[Splurgendii]

leonard kinda looks like alec baldwin in the younger clips of him.

[colourfulwithaU]

I love Bernstein, but he's not much of a rock singer. :P

[otherjoe1234]

wonderful

[jennifersman]

I don't know what the context was, but in one show he used The Beatles "And I Love Her" and the kids just screamed, like they knew EXACTLY what he was talking about, course he couldn't sing it as well but he showed how he knew what he was talking about and how to make it relate to these kids.

[chuckdee121]

Too funny!!!

[darkprose]

In music, Bernstein was, is and will forever be, the man.

[jfrankley55]

You got that right, hoss, and while I've admired many famous and not-so-famous musicians that have passed away during my lifetime of nearly 60 years, I still mourn his passing most of all.

[MyMusic0201]

@darkprose

Absolutely, absolutely true.

[JeffW77]

I remember watching the episode in which LB discussed modes and played "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks. The image/scene has stuck with me all these years.

[Lokus199]

what is the song name at 0:39 ?

[TimboBandit]

"Along Comes Mary", by a band called The Association

[Lokus199]

thx

[starcevicgoran]

Moj omiljeni dirigent ! ! !

[yumyumwhatzohai]

man, Lenny knew how to stay in touch with the pop scene of his times and be able to hold his solid career in the classical music biz. A true inspiration to all musicians, wether classical or not.

[bsdml]

Amen ta that, brother! I'm so sad I never got to meet him.

[kempff95]

Absolutely fantastic !!!!

What a great man he was ,pianist and a great conductor ....

[paulostroff99]

kempff-He was also a great composer. West Side Story and much more.

[lewars1912]

paulostroff99 Also a great communicator. He was a one-off. Huge amount of energy and talent.

[tyrannicoystercult]

haha what a cute man

[PrestoAdagio]

1:38, omg! Lenny could boogie with the best of them!

[jennifersman]

Boogie Woogie Bernstein!

[furiozara]

Great Lenny!!!