Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with inserts on white & emendations in black & blue pencil]

Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 2 N.Y.P.Y.P.C. #4 WHAT IS A CONCERTO? [ *This script probably needs some expansion if it's to become a chapter*] [*March 28, 1959*] [*Air*] [*Final*] [*Cut to p. 4*] [*Revise on assumption…

Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 3 [*Begin*] BERNSTEIN: (cont'd) [*Right now I'd like to ask a question of you,"*] [*rephrase?*] My big question is: [are] have we been helping you to come closer to good music? Are…

Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 4. BERNSTEIN (Cont'd) But there are some musical words which can't be explained in a second; it takes time to learn about them; and what's more, it takes listening to the actual…

Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 5. BERNSTEIN (Cont'd) So ever since music began to be written for the entertainment of audiences [like you,] composers have used the word Concerto to name their pieces. All kinds of different…

Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 6. BERNSTEIN (Cont'd) Right: five. And an octet is a sonata for how many? (AUDIENCE) Right: eight. Now, this is important: a sonata for a whole orchestra is called a symphony; isn't…

Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 7 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) [The idea of togetherness is there, all right;] [and] [*Now*] it's fine for all these people [of the big orchestra] to be playing together: but if you think about…

Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 8 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Vivaldi was one of those marvelous composers who never seemed to run out of ideas -- and he never seemed to run out of instruments to write them for.…

Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 9 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Then there were two instruments called trumpet-marines, which were, strange to say, stringed instruments -- great big things with only one string, and which gave out a sound rather…

Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 10 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) All together, its quite a hodgepodge of peculiar instruments; but they still make a very small orchestra compared to present day standards. As you see, this -------------- big Carnegie…

Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 12 BERNSTEIN [handwritten text in left margin of typed text: ("If you want to hear a good example...) - ? This really needs to be revised - perhaps expanded."] [end of handwritten…

Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 14 BERNSTEIN Well, history moves on; and we now reach the later classical age of Mozart and Haydn. (As you see,) the orchestra is getting even bigger; and again as the orchestra…

Image 12 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 15 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) But the soloists' greatest moment comes toward the end of this second movement we're going to play for you in a shortened version [when the] Their great moment happens…

Image 13 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 17 BERNSTEIN [*(Well, I've told you about...)*] Well, we've listened to parts of concertos for all kinds of groups, of all sizes, from the Vivaldi, which had a twelve- instrument concertino, to…

Image 14 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 18 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Now there's a danger in this [great rise] rising popularity of the solo concerto; and that danger is leaning too hard on the show-off side of things. There are…

Image 15 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … [*I don't want anyone to think I'm playing favorites, but as an example of the solo-concerto, I'd like to recommend to you another violin piece ... (?)*] 19 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) At the…

Image 16 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 21 BERNSTEIN Coming now to [In] our own time, [in] this Twentieth century, composers have shown a strong tendency to go back to the old concerto grosso idea. It's not that they…

Image 17 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 22 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) His concerto shows off, (or I should say, lights up) every little department of this great body of musicians, so that everyone in the orchestra gets a chance to…

Image 18 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Concerto? [typescript on blue paper with … 23 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) We're going to play for you now the last two movements of this delightful and thrilling piece -- Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. This is [*recommendation?*] [*record?*] modern music at…

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