Manuscript/Mixed Material Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper]
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Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] [* 28 [Mar] Feb 59 *] YP-TV-3 Humor in Music On our last program, [at] which was about Classical Music, if you remember, we [talked about] were playing some music by Haydn,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 2 in every joke—the thing that's called the twist, or the gimmick, or the punch, or the topper, or the tag-line; but whatever you call it, it's got to be a surprise,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 3 meaning wet. Doctors used to think, hundreds of years ago, that people had four of these humors, or fluids in their bodies, which made them feel & act in different ways:…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 4 Music can't make jokes about anything except music itself; it can make fun of itself, or of other pieces of music; but it sure can't make jokes about that elephant and…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 5 Now what was so funny about that? [Aud. Part.] Right: the fact that everybody began cheering & yelling in the orchestra, just as though at a parade. And what makes you…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 6 The first & simplest way that music can be amusing—that's already almost a joke: "amusing music"; maybe we should call it "amusmic" or something; —anyway, the first way is by simple…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] Imitating people or things is one of the oldest ways of making people laugh—by mocking them, or showing them up. It's like comedians who do impersonations of famous people: like impersonating Greta…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 7 Now here's the same tune describing the same American after he's had a bit too much to drink: & notice how fuzzy & groggy the tune has become: ORK [* poss…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] Speed has always been one of the [characteristics] major things about [?] wit; fast & funny—that's the rule for jokes. That's why those tongue-twister songs of Gilbert & Sullivan are so funny…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 8 They all mean roughly the same thing ; making fun of something, or someone, by exaggerating it, or twisting it in some way. But still, there's a difference between satire &…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 9 I heard it, on the radio when I was about 15 yrs old. I remember [falling] lying on the floor and laughing until I was crying. I didn't know what the…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 12 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 10 ring sometime, won't you?" and so he takes off his ring & gives it to you. That's just what Prokofieff does in this phrase: PLAY You see, he leads you to…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 13 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 11 beginning with the upstairs people (SING) then the downstairs people, then the orchestra. Ready, go. AUD. PART. What a sad time it's become.' Now what Mahler did was to make it…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 14 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 12 music. That's [why] another reason why Gilbert & Sullivan's operettas are so funny; they caricature serious music, or the style of serious opera, and because their operas are not serious, and…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 15 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] [*C1-6-1615 *] 13 I once wrote a parody myself - in a Broadway show called "Candide". There is a big, fancy aria in the final act, sung by the heroine who has…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 16 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 14 be? Why should we laugh when someone falls down? Here we come to the central point of all humor: all jokes have to be at the expense of someone or something;…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 17 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 15 Now how does this destructive element in humor apply to music? Well, you can destroy sense in music just as easily as in the circus ring. Mozart did it long years…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 18 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 16 [*27 24 _____ 51*] Burlesque; & notice, as we play it, how [he] what he is busy destroying is not so much right notes as right rhythms. Just when you expect…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 19 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] 17 [*Do a Beeth. scherzo to finish?*] Well, now we've sunk about as low as we can go in musical humor, so let's pull ourselves up again, and finish by playing a…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 20 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] YP-TV Humor (new end) (after Bn. solo, p. 19) Ever since that Sorcerer tune was written for the bassoon, composers have been calling on their bassoons to burp out their jokes every…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 21 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] New End - 2 can be very different from one another. Originally, in the symphonies of Mozart & Haydn—remember those early classical composers we talked about?—well, in their symphonies, the 3rd movement…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959
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Image 22 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Humor in Music [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] But it's still humor; and [it should make] it makes you feel good inside. [ORK] Leonard Bernstein- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1959