Manuscript/Mixed Material Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with emendations in red, blue & black pencil]
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Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … [*Final Podium Script*] [*Romantic - Realist*] NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS #1 3RD SEASON - 1960 WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN [*Mahler*] Air Date: Sunday, February 7, 1960 1:00 P.M. to 2:00 P.M.,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … OPENING :30 SECS. BLACK CUE L.B. COME UP ON CARNEGIE HALL FOLLOW L.B. TO PODIUM. (APPROX. 1:00 Min)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 2 WHO IS GUSTAV MAHLER? BERNSTEIN Hello, my dear young friends. It's wonderful to be back with you again after so long a time and after the long tour [we made] of…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 3 BERNSTEIN I'll bet there isn't a person in this whole Carnegie Hall who knows what that music is. Well, maybe some of you do, because you've peeked at your programs, and…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 4 BERSTEIN (CONT'D) There's also another special reason why we should be celebrating Mahler's birthday here; and that is that 50 years ago he was the conductor of this very same New…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 5 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) They say that anyway a conductor's head is too full of everyone else's music, so how can he write [his own] original stuff [?] of his own? Naturally I…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 6 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) For instance, take that jolly music we played a little while ago which was the beginning of his 4th Symphony. You remember those merry Christmasy sleigh-bells at the beginning?…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 7 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Well, [how could] you might not [ever] believe it [that] but the man who wrote all that jolly stuff was one of the most unhappy [saddest] people in history.[?]…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 8 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Is that heartbroken-sounding music the real Mahler? Or the other sleigh-bell happy sound? No - they're both Mahler, voices of the two different people inside him. But then you'll…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 9 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) So [Because] that's the main secret about him; he was struggling all his life to recapture those pure, unmixed, overflowing emotions of childhood. I'm sure you've all experienced that…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 10 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Here was this grown-up, very sophisticated, learned man, with children of his own, with a heart full of struggles between the different [fighting] voices fighting inside him - always…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 12 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 11 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) And [T]the voice that sings it has to be light and clear and young, like a child's voice. Let me first give you a short translation of the poem…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 13 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 12 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) (By the way, at this point in the music you will hear Mahler imitating the sound of the lamb - (OBOE EXAMPLE - 2 AFTER #5, 1 BAR) and…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 14 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 13 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) If you want sea-food, [Every holiday] all the fishes come happily swimming by Where St. Peter stands ready with his net and his bait. The cook, of course, is…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 15 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 16 PART II BERNSTEIN What do we know about this great composer Mahler so far? We have talked about three of his inner battles; the fight between the conductor and composer; the…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 16 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 17 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) [Then, on the other hand, you will hear lots of passages like this one from his 1st Symphony, that have the flavor of a band playing at a Jewish…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 17 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 18-19 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) The Western side of him naturally drew him to Western musical styles, so that his music shows the influence of Mozart, Schubert, Wagner - all the great German and…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 18 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 20 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) [And all the while, the violins, which you may not have noticed, were playing their own little Chinese tune: (ORCH: 4TH SYMPHONY, 3RD MOVEMENT, VIOLINS, 5 BEFORE #13 TO…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 19 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 21 BERNSTEIN ( CONT'D) The words are based on an old Chinese poem, [and] which describes a beautiful scene of young Chinese friends sitting in a garden summer-house made of green and…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 20 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 24 [PART III] BERNSTEIN By now you must have noticed something very special about all these symphonies of Mahler: the fact that so many of them use voices [as well as] in…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 21 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 25 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) He just kept writing symphonies that sound operatic [ sounding symphonies]. Just listen to this duet section from his 2nd Symphony -- it's almost exactly like listening to opera.…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 22 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 26 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) [Well,] Take this particular song which is called "St. Anthony's Sermon to The Fish: " it's a humorous song -- you might almost call it a comic song, telling…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 23 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 27 BERNSTEIN And now let's see how Mahler takes this same song and makes a [whole] movement of his 2nd Symphony out of it. The orchestra, of course, will [be] sound much…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 24 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 29 BERNSTEIN And so it goes on, for a much longer time. What a difference between this and the [song] singing version we heard before! Now in this music we just heard,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 25 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 30 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Now that music shows us that Mahler was a real master of chamber-music sounds. And yet he never wrote chamber music - not a quartet or trio or a…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 26 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 31 PART III BERNSTEIN And so we've begun to get the big picture of this strange double man, Gustav Mahler. We have seen: 1) Mahler, the conductor and Mahler the composer. 2)…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 27 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 32 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) [But he was; * in his music he summed up the whole German radition of music; but we can also find in his music all the seeds of the…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 28 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 33 BERNSTEIN (CONT"D) Now certain people [have been] were amazed when I told them I was going to play this for you today- " what," they said - " You're going to…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 29 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 34 BERNSTEIN ( CONT'D) It sounds sometimes like opera, and sometimes like a simple folk song. And It's very Chinese. Especially in the orchestration which uses celeste, [two] harps, and mandolin, [all]…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 30 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 35 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) But at the same time he doesn't want to say goodbye to the old style; he loves all that [Mozart] Wagner and Schubert so much: he says goodbye sadly,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 31 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … 36 (ORCH: AND CONTRALTO: THE SONG OF THE EARTH - THE FAREWELL) (8:20)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960
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Image 32 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: Who is Gustav Mahler? [typescript on blue paper with … CLOSING APPLAUSE. SUPER TELOP (AT 52:10) 1. N.Y. Philharmonic Y.P.C. 2. With Leonard Bernstein 3. Sprano - Reri Grist Contralto - Helen Raab Tenor - William Lewis 4. Produced & Directed by…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1960