Leonard Bernstein conduts Cha Cha in West side Story

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  • Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025

Комментарии • 237

  • @sapaulgoogdmen9542
    @sapaulgoogdmen9542 Год назад +275

    Guy on tambourine was so focused on how soft he can hit it that he forgot the maracas

  • @GeometricMason
    @GeometricMason Год назад +395

    We're so lucky this footage is preserved. Unlike the works of Mozart, Bach, and Bethoven, which we must interpret as well as we can from what is on the page, with this music we can know EXACTLY what Bernstein wanted. This footage is a world treasure.

    • @simonartymowycz96
      @simonartymowycz96 Год назад +17

      Definitely a fantastic treat to study, but what makes orchestral ("classical") music so special to me is the vastness in interpretation we can derive with our own imagination and freedom. Like a life living strictly by the Book, it is bland and colourless.

    • @Drumulater1
      @Drumulater1 Год назад +1

      It's such great misic

    • @gavinjacobs8301
      @gavinjacobs8301 Год назад +1

      Well said sir, I definitely agree.

    • @GuillermoNunez-tj4jo
      @GuillermoNunez-tj4jo Год назад

      😢😊😊❤

    • @ahmedluther1694
      @ahmedluther1694 11 месяцев назад

      This is exactly what I have always thought, great composers capture their work and would like it to be interpreted as it is in their minds, as time goes by they interpret it in a thousand different ways. Even with speed, there are directors who finish the same work in 30 minutes and others in 40 minutes, very big differences.

  • @ryanbrown7536
    @ryanbrown7536 Год назад +87

    That poor percussionist 🤣 "Where were the little maracas?" I DON'T KNOW LENNY, I WAS BUSY TRYING TO CONCENTRATE ON THE DYNAMICS OF THIS FUCKING TAMBOURINE! 🤣

    • @sleepytabby9113
      @sleepytabby9113 Год назад +4

      Thank you for this comment. I've had an awful day and this comment made me laugh. ❤

  • @marcellomarianetti1770
    @marcellomarianetti1770 Год назад +118

    Studying composition I realized that if you don't tell the musicians exactly what you want you will never obtain it, so being meticulous is actually very important if you care about the result

    • @MegaOttaviano
      @MegaOttaviano Год назад +9

      And I think he was sufficiently polite too

  • @cefinau
    @cefinau Год назад +417

    Orchestra musician to self: whatever you do, don’t let yourself get carried away by the music you’re playing

    • @abelnicolaebaritone
      @abelnicolaebaritone Год назад +8

      exactly :D It has happened to me too many times

    • @TheIceIvy
      @TheIceIvy Год назад +9

      I allow myself to get completely carried away with the music I'm playing while playing in jazz.

    • @abelnicolaebaritone
      @abelnicolaebaritone Год назад +27

      @@TheIceIvy that's very nice. But when you play in an orchestra, you have to count bars. If you get carried away, you forget your entrance, like the guy in the video.

    • @keldrean
      @keldrean Год назад

      What about crying because it's so beautiful?

    • @Aleksandr_Skrjabin
      @Aleksandr_Skrjabin Год назад +7

      ​@@keldreanAs long as you can keep counting and play as is written.

  • @winrx
    @winrx Год назад +409

    Who knew playing the tambourin and maracas can be so stressful......😂

    • @jjns5600
      @jjns5600 Год назад +28

      THAT'S BECAUSE IT NEEDS MORE COWBELL!!!!!🔔🐮

    • @nathanpiazza9644
      @nathanpiazza9644 Год назад +38

      Every percussionist ever

    • @TFreckle
      @TFreckle Год назад +6

      ... and vibraphone...

    • @hotdrumman
      @hotdrumman Год назад +9

      The guy had lots to do and ut would seem little time to prepare.... They're doing a recording with no rehearsal cos it's too expensive. Sadly small parts of the recording suffered.... But actually, what great musicians there were.

    • @el_quba
      @el_quba Год назад

      With Bernstein even triangle can be hard as hell ruclips.net/video/ebf6_7nHciw/видео.html

  • @ZypherMyth
    @ZypherMyth Год назад +77

    The quiet, "shit.." from Bernstein when he said they were on the same take and then the producer calls "Take 75" 😂

  • @reneecarter6702
    @reneecarter6702 Год назад +251

    Me listening to the first bar: “oh that sounds so magical”
    Lenny: “no no no!”
    Me: >confused about what was wrong<
    He was amazing

    • @maximilianwilfinger
      @maximilianwilfinger Год назад +9

      the strings messed up their written line pretty bad. came out too muddy and messy

    • @jemandjemand2362
      @jemandjemand2362 Год назад +2

      you can clearly hear the mistakes.

    • @BZB33
      @BZB33 Год назад +4

      @@maximilianwilfinger The bassoon missed the pick-up. You can hear him sing it at 0:28

    • @attaboy78
      @attaboy78 Год назад

      I think it's the clarinets that messed up that opening bar, and then again later with their 16th notes LOL@@BZB33

    • @kimmyymmik
      @kimmyymmik Год назад

      Jajaj same

  • @lanekarabani8084
    @lanekarabani8084 4 года назад +130

    the recorders are salty af "lenny, lenny, do you like the pitches-" "yes but i dont like the sixteenth notes" *recorder shakes his head*

  • @robertagunn9193
    @robertagunn9193 7 месяцев назад +2

    I was an English teacher at a secure facility for boys in NYS in the 1980's. I played this documentary for my students after they had completed a creative arts unit. They were enthralled!

  • @maestromuffin1
    @maestromuffin1 Год назад +20

    I'll never forget standing behind the percussion section during a rehersal of his symphonic west side story dances and was amazed that the maracas player(after playing the maracas part) then turned them around a played the tom toms with the butt of the handles! During a break, I asked ther guy about this and he showed me that it said to do that in the score! What vision! What a genius!

  • @jars7774
    @jars7774 Год назад +55

    “Too many takes, your Majesty”, said no music director to the Emperor ever.

  • @ericnichols9223
    @ericnichols9223 Год назад +18

    I've always thought this track sounded perfect -- such a delicate, beautiful piece. Wonderful to see them working to get it right. Cha Cha was always stood out for me in WSS as one of its best moments.

  • @Dizzyfingers2
    @Dizzyfingers2 Год назад +60

    Ever since first seeing this back in the 80s I have quoted so many lines - especially by Bernstein - I still say: "No ... hey, please .. 1-2-3 ... bluh-blee-bluh ..." @0:25 to this day ... LOL

  • @2Hearts3
    @2Hearts3 Год назад +36

    A view into the past of the making of beautiful music we've listened to and known and enjoyed all our lives. What a time to be alive 😃🎶👏

  • @stephenbarrette610
    @stephenbarrette610 Год назад +31

    Lenny was simply one of my heros. I never got the chance to see him perform live in the UK. The recording of his West Side Story is extraordinary, legendary? very hard to describe other than just genius and one of my favourite CD’s
    It looks like Bradley is going to honour the maestro as he deserves. And yes he was a very complicated person, but in my humble opinion a musical genius.

  • @danielconnolly8565
    @danielconnolly8565 Год назад +14

    Pure musicality. Delicate yet sharp. Such great, great players. ❤

  • @richardwilliams473
    @richardwilliams473 Год назад +359

    Lenny had a big ego but he is without a doubt one of the best conductor composers ever

    • @ellastarrr1st149
      @ellastarrr1st149 Год назад

      Plus big bullshit

    • @abbaup8543
      @abbaup8543 Год назад

      He was a ped.phile in case you ignore it!

    • @HelloooThere
      @HelloooThere Год назад +43

      He seems to have been a nice guy and quite affable. You had to respect him and I don’t find him to be difficult to work with. Yeah, not me…

    • @scottwilkins
      @scottwilkins Год назад +13

      Composer yes. Conductor? I've seen (worked with) better.

    • @davidhawkins2207
      @davidhawkins2207 Год назад +3

      He was a great pianist too.

  • @MandyG1973
    @MandyG1973 10 месяцев назад

    Absolute genius. 😂 Could watch this on a loop for hours. Love, love, love Leonard Bernstein. X

  • @mga2899
    @mga2899 Год назад +37

    Forget the Biopic, this making of West Side Story is what you want to see.

  • @jocastadidntknew5980
    @jocastadidntknew5980 Год назад +16

    Aaron Copland, John Williams, and Leonard Bernstein to me are the fathers of American popular orchestra. West Side Story is just a phenomenal part of our culture.

    • @nikosvault
      @nikosvault 6 месяцев назад

      Not a bad trio. I would add Gershwin.

  • @helenpurdon4501
    @helenpurdon4501 Год назад +1

    just makes me cry. what an amazing experience to be part of - what incredible musicians

  • @donvasquez1791
    @donvasquez1791 Год назад +8

    Classic! I hope future generations will appreciate the work and love that goes into this! ❤

  • @sophiazey
    @sophiazey 9 лет назад +18

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @richardwashington620
    @richardwashington620 11 месяцев назад

    As a 13 yr old I was totally captivated by this documentary. Great to see it here

  • @ronaldl9085
    @ronaldl9085 Год назад +26

    Amazing he hears all these tiny details instantly.

    • @willmorris8198
      @willmorris8198 Год назад +2

      All conductor's should have an ideal version of what the piece sounds like in their mind. With Bernstein this is even more true because he wrote the piece. He already knows what it sounds like, its just a matter of whether the orchestra sounds the same or not. That is the job of a conductor

  • @DNS0875
    @DNS0875 11 месяцев назад +1

    My goal is to play tenor and soprano saxophone in orchestras which record filmscores. These videos are inspiring and motivating 🙌🏻

  • @Botrytis18
    @Botrytis18 Год назад +104

    Imagine being totally stressed while just playing a seemingly totally simple instrument like the freaking tambourine.

    • @MarcoLongoMusic
      @MarcoLongoMusic Год назад +14

      It's not simple at all

    • @Botrytis18
      @Botrytis18 Год назад +10

      @@MarcoLongoMusic Seemingly

    • @MarcoLongoMusic
      @MarcoLongoMusic Год назад +4

      @@Botrytis18 at all

    • @Botrytis18
      @Botrytis18 Год назад +5

      @@MarcoLongoMusic Fair enough

    • @BZB33
      @BZB33 Год назад +5

      @@MarcoLongoMusic Child's play at this level. The easiest frame drum by far. Not to downplay its importance.

  • @Newmefree-pn9us
    @Newmefree-pn9us 11 месяцев назад +1

    A master at work 🙌

  • @mysticakhenaton1701
    @mysticakhenaton1701 2 месяца назад +1

    Bernstein was the Quincy Jones of the classical music world.

  • @Shadowsnshades
    @Shadowsnshades Год назад +5

    This score gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

  • @harmoniabalanza
    @harmoniabalanza Год назад +4

    take 73!!!! As a musician (singer) I find this harrowing and glorious.

    • @jakemuffett8347
      @jakemuffett8347 Год назад

      Well that's take 73 of the entire recording process so far, not just this number. Take 73 was the first take of this number. Probably the first time they played it too. This was basically one of the best session orchestras in the world, no rehearsals.

  • @VidRackoff
    @VidRackoff Год назад +11

    This is such good music. And I bet the musicians loved this experience, as stressful as it may have been. (Now some of the singers’ experiences on this recording might not have had such a good time).

  • @michaelporter6383
    @michaelporter6383 Год назад +27

    This is surely one of the greatest musicals ever written

  • @Soundpaintmusic
    @Soundpaintmusic Год назад +14

    1:57 ... What happened to the little maracas?! We must do it ALL over again!

  • @laser170323
    @laser170323 Год назад +33

    Between the pain in the producer and Bernstein’s comments, that orchestra had to be super up tight. And that orchestra had some heavy hitters in it … Julius Baker playing flute, Wilmer Wise on trumpet, etc. Usually when you’re playing and your goal is to avoid making mistakes, you’re not making music. These guys were doing both. I give them tons of credit.

    • @HelloooThere
      @HelloooThere Год назад +3

      Nah, these guys and gals came to play and do a job.
      I think Bernstein was more aggravated at the guys up the booth than the orchestra…for the most part 😉

  • @kalajarvi
    @kalajarvi Год назад +2

    The percussionist was clearly under stress. LOL. He did well at the end.

  • @BeingAnna
    @BeingAnna 2 года назад +49

    This was uploaded 8 years ago... I like to think that he finally achieved perfection in the film that came out last year... one can really hear the differences!

    • @chrisartist5155
      @chrisartist5155 Год назад +13

      Lenny died in 1990.

    • @sillybobby5189
      @sillybobby5189 Год назад +5

      he just needed to replace the entire orchestra as well as the conductor.

    • @akapple3538
      @akapple3538 Год назад

      You’re a few decades off. This doco was recorded in 1984 and the Deutsche Grammophon album was released in 1985. Nothing to do with Spielberg’s movie.

  • @Devan-he4kr
    @Devan-he4kr Год назад +2

    The indignity of having your tambourine playing criticized.

  • @Gggg-zu8gt
    @Gggg-zu8gt 5 лет назад +75

    Sorry for the poor percussionist, who has to rebuild his whole instrumentary

  • @wk3004
    @wk3004 Год назад +15

    Tambourine guy actually looked terrified. Also, was the oboe player they showed one of the oboists for the Oslo Phil in the Saraste days?

  • @davidroode73
    @davidroode73 6 месяцев назад

    that percussionist has some seriously good ensemble skills. listen to how he passes the marimba run into the violin solo at the end. mistakes happen, but instincts like that you just can't fake

  • @veronikapecenovic7324
    @veronikapecenovic7324 Год назад +3

    Predivno stvarno predivno.❤

  • @2Hearts3
    @2Hearts3 Год назад +2

    Sooooo beautiful 🎶🥰

  • @miltonderezende7906
    @miltonderezende7906 Год назад +11

    Today has not composer like Bernstein

  • @pjmvdbroek
    @pjmvdbroek Год назад +1

    And elegant it is!

  • @skylark5789
    @skylark5789 Год назад

    The star of the piece...the delicate maracas. So perfect, a tiny detail. Genius.
    Funny, I always noticed them as a kid years ago, because I thought they drew attention back to the spice in Maria's culture.

  • @ahmedluther1694
    @ahmedluther1694 11 месяцев назад

    Dozens and dozens of takes for the same work, that was the perfectionist and brilliant Bernstein, who spoke very highly of The Beatles in a documentary, the Liverpool group was also very demanding with their songs, for example, they did "Not Guilty" 102 takes, obtaining an excellent result and still they did not include it in the white album.
    Decenas y decenas de tomas para una misma obra, ese era el perfeccionista y genial Bernstein, quien habló muy bien de The Beatles en un documental, el grupo de Liverpool también era muy exigente con sus canciones, por ejemplo, de "Not Guilty" hicieron 102 tomas, obteniendo un excelente resultado y aún así no la incluyeron en el album blanco.

  • @Clown321321
    @Clown321321 Год назад

    This is sooo good! Thanks for sharing!

  • @stephenmcmullen7600
    @stephenmcmullen7600 Год назад +1

    Damn. That is hard work!

  • @richardmcduffie9922
    @richardmcduffie9922 Год назад

    Beautiful stuff

  • @sheilamacdougal4874
    @sheilamacdougal4874 Год назад +21

    Enthralling, more so than the actual play-through performance would be.

  • @klarakrok
    @klarakrok Год назад

    ORGANIC APPROACH ANY ONE?
    what a gift!!!❤❤🎉

  • @davidhensley76
    @davidhensley76 Год назад +5

    Meanwhile the low brass are on their fifth revision of the dirty lyrics they've composed while enduring 75 takes.

  • @bigkahunauk1
    @bigkahunauk1 Год назад +1

    How the magic happens 🥰

  • @rubengreenberg2253
    @rubengreenberg2253 Год назад

    Bernstein knows what he wants, hears everything and gets what he wants. Who is the bassoonist? -a beautiful sound. The best musicians in the business.

  • @BellaWorldAni
    @BellaWorldAni 10 месяцев назад

    I decided to watch prior to viewing Bradley Cooper's role as Bernstein in Maestro -- and I can't stop laughing at "Take 74". That's all I needed to know. Wonderful footage, but the musicians seem STRESSED. LOL

  • @barney6888
    @barney6888 Год назад +2

    Pain in the producer getting in the way

  • @ralphtoussie9991
    @ralphtoussie9991 Год назад +1

    I don’t know how anyone can still give a fresh interpretation on Take 74! I would be robotic at that point.

  • @GDM223SR
    @GDM223SR Год назад +3

    So pros rush sixteenths too! Validated!

  • @MicheleEngel
    @MicheleEngel Год назад

    It is thrilling to watch this. 😮

  • @makinhotcoffee6230
    @makinhotcoffee6230 Год назад

    It's increadible how being picky at this made a wonderful outcome yes english i am grate at gramm4r

  • @karenmihranian9707
    @karenmihranian9707 Год назад

    Amazing

  • @ronaldpuso945
    @ronaldpuso945 Год назад +1

    The musicians are anxious in his presence

  • @mrsjr78
    @mrsjr78 Год назад +8

    Where can we watch this whole session? Or at least more of it.

    • @davemiller7633
      @davemiller7633 Год назад +3

      It's on RUclips, in parts and about an hour long show in it's entirety

  • @JordanVanRyn
    @JordanVanRyn 11 месяцев назад

    Without Bernstein, we wouldn't have one of the greatest Sondheim musicals ever made.

  • @ceciliacarvalho9069
    @ceciliacarvalho9069 6 месяцев назад

    What a genius!

  • @chiconeededthemoney
    @chiconeededthemoney Год назад +1

    Is this from the version with Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa as Tony and Maria.

  • @Lorangebeatrice
    @Lorangebeatrice Год назад

    My Tambourine and Maraca guy left that room looking like Bernstein.

  • @maxmcmahon5401
    @maxmcmahon5401 Год назад +19

    Could they please make up their mind whether this is rehearsal or a recording session?

    • @manuel.roesler
      @manuel.roesler Год назад +10

      in fact, recording sessions go exactly like this. Don't forget: the orchestra is seeing the music for the first time and is sight-reading.

    • @Man-From-Another-Place
      @Man-From-Another-Place Год назад

      @@manuel.roesler The orchestra don't learn the music prior to recording it?

    • @Jack_Simpson
      @Jack_Simpson Год назад +3

      @@Man-From-Another-PlaceThey are all good enough individually to sight read their parts. It’s lining it all up, getting it in tempo, and, if you’re a percussionist, knowing when to swap instruments that takes rehearsal time… especially when when you’ve got a guy as picky/meticulous as Lenny.

    • @Man-From-Another-Place
      @Man-From-Another-Place Год назад +2

      @@Jack_Simpson Thanks. I play the piano and couldn't imagine just turning up on the day to record something I'd never played before.

    • @vhego
      @vhego Год назад

      @@Man-From-Another-Placeyeah me too ahahaha well I just got in conservatory for composition studying, so I am no pianist, but I would never get into rehearsal without studying my own part even if I played the oboe or whatever instrument

  • @declanfischer5397
    @declanfischer5397 Год назад

    That percussionist was so nervous 😅

  • @MikeUIibarri
    @MikeUIibarri Год назад

    RUclips. Every time I start getting into something I like, the video ends.

  • @WiloPolis03
    @WiloPolis03 Год назад +3

    Had no idea Bernie was such a prolific musician

  • @louisee7339
    @louisee7339 Год назад

    Modern musicals could never

  • @osvaldoschilling9129
    @osvaldoschilling9129 Год назад +7

    Is it possible to imagine coping with Beethoven conducting his own compositions?

    • @manuel.roesler
      @manuel.roesler Год назад +1

      We have quite a few eyewitness accounts of how Beethoven conducted. It doesn't seem to have been very precise - then rather Bernstein

    • @bw2082
      @bw2082 Год назад

      Well you know after a certain point he couldn’t hear so you could play however the heck you wanted and he’d never know.

  • @phillipchoate550
    @phillipchoate550 Год назад

    anyone else snap like in the film while watching this

  • @harmoniabalanza
    @harmoniabalanza Год назад +4

    that poor percussionist looks like he was up all night practicing. And now he's like 85?

  • @mountainlinx
    @mountainlinx Год назад

    Genius

  • @jeanninesantoriello7972
    @jeanninesantoriello7972 Год назад +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @phillipecook3227
    @phillipecook3227 Год назад

    Percussionist earned his corn.

  • @rossanobonacchi
    @rossanobonacchi Год назад +1

    A big fat WOW!!!

  • @paulsolon6229
    @paulsolon6229 Год назад

    Let’s get it rt
    Like that, way to go

  • @BrendanGM
    @BrendanGM Год назад +1

    So, no "fix it in post" then?

  • @aarond9563
    @aarond9563 Год назад

    They gave a ton of camera time to the guy with the tamboreen because they knew he was stressed 😅

  • @2Hearts3
    @2Hearts3 Год назад +4

    No pressure... 😑

  • @dpuhe3253
    @dpuhe3253 Год назад +1

    Anyone knows the film this was taken from?

    • @sghaua
      @sghaua Год назад

      West Side Story

  • @ricarleite
    @ricarleite Год назад

    What album was this recordkng releases to

  • @ronaldwildman4968
    @ronaldwildman4968 Год назад

    WOW !!!

  • @ignacionavarro2412
    @ignacionavarro2412 11 месяцев назад

    the tamborine man having a Carreras crisis...

  • @maestroclassico5801
    @maestroclassico5801 Год назад

    I preferred his larger scale orchestration from the Symphonic Dances

  • @theFrigatt
    @theFrigatt Год назад +1

    0:08 Looks like the first Apple Watch User 😀

  • @craiglesuk1
    @craiglesuk1 Год назад

    Who knew playing the tambourine and maracas was so hard 😳

  • @maestroclassico5801
    @maestroclassico5801 Год назад

    Take 74? Damn maybe studying with Reiner had an effect on Lenny after all!!

  • @drowdaba
    @drowdaba Год назад +1

    does he.. perhaps.. bring class ii dajim?

  • @SamIAm-kz4hg
    @SamIAm-kz4hg Год назад

    None of what he said was in any way being picky. He was right on.

  • @mdleweight
    @mdleweight Год назад +3

    LOL "Take 74"

  • @nelebdiazrodriguez4567
    @nelebdiazrodriguez4567 Год назад

    Intense

  • @karenholtzclaw3135
    @karenholtzclaw3135 Год назад

    Fun!

  • @GnomicMaster
    @GnomicMaster Год назад

    "Conduts"? Hmmm......is that some new musical term I've never heard?

  • @MARIANSCATLIFFE
    @MARIANSCATLIFFE Год назад

    Its not a cha cha its Marias danceand its beautiful

    • @bassethound1
      @bassethound1 Год назад

      It’s called Dance at the Gym: Cha-Cha