Manuscript/Mixed Material Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary Rodgers' hand red ink on yellow legal pad paper w/ pencil; remainder in LB's hand, pencil]
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Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … Young People's Philharmonic Concert January 24 1959 - Carnegie Hall comp=composer class = classical [treble clef sign] = music . = period [ampersand] = and What is Classical Music? The question before…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 2 are just as wrong, like "good" music for instance. You've all heard people say "I just love good music" meaning Beet. instead of Spike Jones. Well, you know what they mean…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … It at all, Anybody can understand is and love is. Well what about "art". A lot of people use. That word to try to describe the difference between Beer and Spike Jones;…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 4. class. music. he puts down the exact notes that he wants, the exact instrument or voice that he wants to play or sing them - even to the exact number of…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 5. [out] That the beginning of Beet's Fifth Symphony - which I'm sure you all know (play on piano - 4 notes) should get a big extra bang on that last loud…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 6 that what people call class. music can't be changed except by the personality of the performers. This music is permanent, unchangeable, exact - There's a good word - exact - maybe…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 7 but when Louis Armstrong sings it, it goes like this (sings) or when a cool, progressive cat plays it on the piano, it sounds something like this. (plays) [*or if it…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 8. And the same thing goes for folk music too - it can and should change with every performance. Of course, there's even more reason for changing folk music because there's no…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 9. and the [one] person we think has thought up the best word will get $ ----. as a present from the Philharmonic. Don't forget to sign your name and address [*10…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 10 [*12 15*] same idea of when this class. period happened. It lasted about a hundred years -- roughly from 1700 to 1800 which is as you know called the 18th century…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 11 [*to have*] In other words, we were going through a tough time, living a rough life and building a new country from the ground up. [At] Now this same time in…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 12 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 12 [Now one of the main musical cups or vases that was made perfect] Now the two big giant names of this first 50 years of the 18th century were Bach &…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 13 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 13 Bach does in a fugue ; take this one, for instance, from his 4th Brandenburg Concerto. [The first] He lays the foundation for his Ferris Wheel by starting with the the…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 14 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 14. Isn't that marvelous? That is classical perfection. Now Bach died in 1750, which is very convenient for us, because it just [div] neatly divides the hundred years in half. The next…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 15 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 15 elegance & refinement, good manners, proper etiquette; it was a time of lace cuffs & silk pants for men & powdered wigs, & jeweled fans for the ladies of the court.…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 16 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … with simple, marvelous [melody] tunes ; and the tune was the main thing. Listen to this melody by Mozart, for instance, [You can't] there's no Erector set here; [This is] [There are…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 17 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 16 - nobody beats Haydn. He was the great master of amusement. [nobo] Now there's one thing you should know about jokes in music : you can't make a musical joke about…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 18 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … In music you can make these surprises in lots of different ways - by [playing a note that doesn't belong] being loud when the listener expects it to be soft, or the…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 19 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 17 It starts with this tune, which is fast & gay, and skitters all over the room, like a funny little dachshund puppy : ORK. (to bar 14) (no repeat) Did you…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 20 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … Later on he sneaks back again, but in a different way - as though [now that] your kid brother now suddenly turned up [hanging from] in the refrigerator. Listen. ORK - 204-219- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 21 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 18 Like this one - where he [juggles] pretends to be starting the tune again, & then surprises you by not doing it at all. Pretending is [pen] always fun; its like…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 22 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 19 as strictly as Bach did his fugues; it was looking for perfection. Now you may say: If that was the most important thing - perfect form, rules & so on -…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 23 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … Well the same is true of music. There were hundreds of classical composers writing as the times of Mozart - writing good, fine pieces, that struck to all the rules, & were…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 24 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 20 Now the classical period we've been talking about came to an end in the beginning of the 19th century with a great composer named Beethoven. Most people think of him as…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 25 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … It's like the difference between your school playground, with maybe twelve swings and three jungle-gyms, and Coney Island, with more & bigger & better fun-machines than you could even hope to [go]…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 26 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 21 I can give you an example. If I'm introduced to a girl named Miss Smith, and I said "How do you do : I'm very happy to make your acquaintance" -…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 27 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … 22 chained up in all those rules & regulations of the 18th century; and so he just broke his chains, [*18 35*] and started a whole new kind of music. We're going…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 28 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is Classical Music? [1st 11 pages in Mary … the 1st part of this was written out by Mary Rodgers -- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959