Lenny gives comments to Mahler`s 9th Symphonie

... while rehearsing the finale.

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Music

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• Leonard
• Bernstein
• Mahler
• 9.
• Sinfonie

[DeutschlandRocks]

Oh my God my Lenny! Our Lenny!

I wish so, the heaven could give him back!

Speechlessly

[jcfs123]

This finale is utterly transcendent, above any earthly musical composition.

[briquetaverne]

In life as you become older you recognize the little gifts or rewards that were offered in windows of time that only few ever experience that you took and which many hail and revere yet who never partook of the experience. I was young but I met Leonard Bernsein in person as he talked with my father, the other was that I was at woodstock in 1969.

[dbn52]

gnatural: What planet do you resided?All who believe in Jesus or Allah or what ever use them as an excuse to force the evil hatred and all the ignorance of their lives upon others. I feel sorry for you.I am sorry if the truth hurts.

[kewkabe]

@lyon1535 thanks for clearing that up for us, lyon!

[lyon1535]

@gnatural Jesus the "son of god" does not exist, and it is doubtful that a Jesus figure on which they based this pagan god figure ever existed either. The bible is the only source referencing his existence.

[skyboneable]

@danielregan1 gnatural is living in a world of dreams. You got it right in my opinion, Daniel.

[gnatural]

@danielregan1 Im sorry Daniel, but you are greatly mistaken. There is indeed a salvation and there is a savior. his name is Jesus

[sithardeth]

does it from a DvD or something where can i find the full version ?? 

[danielregan1]

Saying that though, I am 22, and I do adore Mahler as you once did. The tragedy is bare for all to see in the first three movements, but the fourth transfigures all of the horror and depths of life's experiences (expressed within the first three) into a sort of more lush and understanding mirror of the first movement; learning to accept what happens (and what will happen) instead of pleading or lamenting aimlessly, hoping for a non-existant form of salvation.

[danielregan1]

@Strefanasha Mahler saw the faith as somewhat fake, ill-attained. He 'achieved' so within the Eighth Symphony, but Das Lied, the Ninth and the Tenth expressed his fear of that gaping hole, created by a sudden disappearance of that reliance upon faith. Say what you want, religion-wise, as we all have opinions on it, but I find the Ninth especially to be an incredible document of our mortal lives; the experience of growing older and eventually facing mortality. Less faith, more...acceptance.

[Dan474834]

Leonard Bernstein - The latest of a line of musical geniuses dating back to the outburst of classic creativity, condemned to the rolemodelling of future musical generations in a way only the likes of Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Ravel or even Rott have shown.

I see his name printed in schoolbooks, for future generations will admire his grandeur in the way that of Beethoven is admired today.

May it be today, in a century, or even in five milennia, you will be missed and admired.