Manuscript/Mixed Material Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, black & green pencil;some emendations apparently for book]
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Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … [*L.B.*] [*[Podium]*] [*Piano*] [*Bolero*] NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS- #3 with LEONARD BERNSTEIN ["Orchestration"] Air date: Saturday, March 8,1953 12 noon to 1:00 PM, EST. Origination:Remote from Carnegie Hall, New York…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … [*DS. PODIUM*] NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS #3 BERNSTEIN: (REVISED) I want to thank the schools and the symphony societies throughout the country for their enthusiastic support. It's just wonderful. [Today]…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 2 Now to start things off, we are going to play you a piece by Rimsky-Korsakov, the [a] Russian composer, who is looked up to as the real master of orchestration, the…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 3 Now everybody will admit that's a mighty brilliant piece of orchestration. Let's take a look at [a] one page of it. (PIX; SCORE OF CAPRICCLO) This whole page full of notes…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 3 Now everybody will admit that's a mighty brilliant piece of orchestration. Let's take a look at [a] one page of [it.] the conductor's score. (PIX: SCORE OF CAPRICCLO) This whole page…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 4 UP X TO CARD Now, he was faced with the job of writing all that down for all these 100-odd people (GESTURES TO ORCHESTRA) to play so that [it would sound]…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 5 (ORCH: 4 BARS OF CAPRICCIO ESPANGNOL - RIMSKY-KORSAKOV) [*From P. 1: What a composer does is to take the bare notes...*] And that sounds just fine when it's played. What he…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 6 Awful, Isn't it? you can't hear the tune, the rhythms are too loud, and it all sounds clumsy and thick, and not very Spanish. [*This could be cut*] So remember: what…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 7 (ILLUSTRATE) or that the percussion section (ILLUSTRATE) doesn't down out the strings. (ILLUSTRATE) [or, if he's writing for a theatre or opera orchestra, he has to see that his instruments don't…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 8 Well, then, imagine how hard it is for a composer to make up his mind and choose - not between two things, like a bicycle and skates - but among all…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 8 Well, then, imagine how hard it is for a composer to make up his mind and choose - not between two things, like a bicycle and skates - but among all…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 12 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 9 (CLARINET SOLO - GERSHWIN) [and] Now imagine that played by a viola, for instance. (VIOLA SOLO - GERSHWIN) [*(It would be pretty silly, wouldn't it?*] [Not the same thing at all,…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 13 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 10 (BRASS: BRANDENBURG CONCERTO #3-BACH) [*rephrase: "would"*] Well, that's not so bad, either: but it's sure not what Bach meant by this music. [Oh that's enough! It just isn't Bach anymore, is…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 14 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 11 [*X PIANO*] Just to give you an idea, let's try an experiment together and orchestrate something ourselves, you and me. We're going to make believe that we're all [a] one big…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 15 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 12 (REVISED) Now we're going to orchestrate these notes in different ways; for instance, let's try to sound like an organ, by simply singing "oo" very softly, instead of "glue". (SING NOTES)…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 16 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 13 Great! We could go on this way for hours. There are so many ways [that] those simple little [chord] notes (PLAYS CHORD ON PIANO) can sound. [It] They can have so…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 17 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 14 That would be more like the regular symphony orchestra [that] (you see here today.) The first way is more homey - like a gathering of family [relatives] relations. The second is…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 18 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 15 Well, in spite of all that baby-talk, It's still true that these woodwinds are a sort of family. they're alike because they're all played by blowing wind into them. and they're…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 19 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 16 (ORCH. SIT) It's a long list. And there's even a group of sort of second cousins, called the French horns, (THEY STAND) who are made of brass, and so really they…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 20 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 17 It's so velvety and dark and - well, cat-like. So Prokofieff had to make a choice: he chose the clarinet, and that was good orchestrating. [*TO PODIUM*] But now, things get…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 21 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 17 It's so velvety and dark and - well, cat-like. So Prokofieff had to make a choice: he chose the clarinet, and that was good orchestrating. [*Cut*] But now, things get more…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 22 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 18 [*"But we can [go on] go on to an even bigger family reunion. For example, Mozart once wrote...etc"-? p.19 ("And Stravinsky...")-?*] Now we go on to even a bigger family reunion.…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 23 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 19 OSSIBLE CUT FROM * TO * *The great modern composer, Stravinsky, has written a Symphony for a whole orchestra of winds, and he really invented some brand-new colors in this one.…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 24 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 20 We use only four kind of stringed instruments. The violins, of course, (of which we have 34,) [*pictures?*] (STAND) [*One picture to show comparative sizes.*] the violas, which look like violins…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 25 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 21 This may sound silly to you - orchestrating for one lone instrument, but it is orchestrating in miniature, because even with one instrument the composer has the problem of choosing. First…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 26 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 22 These choices may sound like small potatoes, but they're all terribly important to orchestration. For instance, if a violinist plays "America the Beautiful" on the D-string, it would sound this way:…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 27 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 23 REVISED [*cut*] Now let's get some of these string cousins together into a string [*They move*] quartet - two violins, a viola, and a cello. Listen to how Beethoven orchestrates this…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 28 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 24 REV For instance, listen to how gorgeously Schubert makes this melody sound in his Quintet - which is the same combination as the Quartet you just heard, but with one more…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 29 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 25 *possible cut from * to * [*should this be phrased as a recommendation? ("If you ever get a chance, be sure to hear V-W's ...") *Listen to this sound that the…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 30 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … N.Y. PHILHARMONIC YOUNG 26 PEOPLE'S CONCERT ANNOUNCER We will return to the YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT in just a moment. (STATION BREAK) BERNSTEIN (Now, where were [you] we?) Now [let's let the] that…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 31 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 27 who are brass and wind both. (THEY SIT) Now you'd be surprised how many different colors you can get from these brass blockbusters; they don't always have to be loud. For…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 32 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 28 The head of this family is, of course, the tympani, [*pictures? -> Yes, lots of them.*] (ILLUSTRATE) And he's surrounded by all kinds of other drums and bells and clickers and…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 33 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 29 Here's a bit of a Schubert Sonata for [Cello] viola and Piano - two instruments from very different families; but they do get along very nicely, indeed. (DUET: APPEGGIONE SONATA -…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 34 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 30 Now here's an even more mixed-up mixture - by Stravinsky again. We're going to play you a march from his ballet "The Story of a Soldier"; and again you will hear…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 35 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 31 (SEPTET: L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT - STRAVINSKY) [*P.28->?*] And so, little by little, we [come] grow up to the regular symphony orchestra we all know and love; (seven players become seventeen, then…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 36 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 32 [*Revise from here on with assumption that we'll have a recording of the Bolero in the book - i.e., translate lecture here into a liner*] Now I've been racking my brains…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 37 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 33 [That's the real explanation. The orchestration is right because it sounds right; and the composer made the right choices because they sound like the right choices to us. That's all.] So…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 38 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 34 rev. But while it's going on, it gives you a chance to hear the orchestra in all its parts, and with all its special combinations, in a way that no other…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 39 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … [And on the screen from time to time, we will show you reminders of which instruments are playing. You'll see [pictures] drawings of the instruments playing the melody on the top half…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 40 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, … 35 REV. [*After Fl. solo:*] Then part A [is repeated] again a little richer and fuller, by the clarinet. [*x*] (CLARINET SOLO) [*after Cl. solo:*] Now comes part B, way up high…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
About this Item
Title
- Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Does Orchestration Mean? [typescript with emendations in blue, black & green pencil;some emendations apparently for book]
Names
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
Created / Published
- March 8, 1958.
Headings
- - Orchestration
- - The Orchestrator
- - Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908
- - Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
- - Debussy: The Afternoon of a Faun
- - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
- - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
- - Colors in music
- - The Woodwind family
- - Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
- - Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik
- - Stravinsky: Symphony for Wind Instruments
- - The The String family
- - Schubert: Quintet in C, Opus 163
- - Favorite melody
- - Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Tallis
- - William Schuman: Symphony for Strings
- - The Brass family
- - Gabrieli: Sonata per Octi Toni
- - The Percussion family
- - Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
- - Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
- - Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat
- - Ravel: Bolero
- - Teachers
- - Young People's Concerts
Genre
- Manuscripts
Notes
- - Location: Box/Folder 105/03.
- - From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Young People's Concerts Television Scripts Series.
- - For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001
- - Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
Medium
- 41 (1-36 + cover, duplicates of pages 3, 8 & 17 and verso of p. 34) pages.; 8.5" x 11"
Call Number/Physical Location
- ML31 .B49
Source Collection
- Leonard Bernstein collection, circa 1900-1995
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2023778431
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- Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
- Colors in Music
- Debussy: The Afternoon of a Faun
- Favorite Melody
- Gabrieli: Sonata Per Octi Toni
- Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
- Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik
- Manuscripts
- Orchestration
- Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
- Ravel: Bolero
- Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
- Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
- Schubert: Quintet in C, Opus 163
- Stravinsky: L'histoire Du Soldat
- Stravinsky: Symphony for Wind Instruments
- Teachers
- The Brass Family
- The Orchestrator
- The Percussion Family
- The the String Family
- The Woodwind Family
- Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Tallis
- William Schuman: Symphony for Strings
- Young People's Concerts