Manuscript/Mixed Material Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, blue, black & green pencil; some emendations apparently for book]
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Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … To: From: Tt. L.B.'s 4/19 Podium & Piano script This program was not televised because of the CBS strike.- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … Notes in green - SWB This one should by easy. Script Used New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts #1 with Leonard Bernstein Find "What Makes Music Symphonic" Brahaus II Finale. (How long?)…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … OPENING FILM (WITH SOUND EFFECTS ON TRACK) :25 ANNOUNCER: (V.0.) (ON CUE - AFTER 2 AUTO HORNS) From the home of the world's greatest musical events - Carnegie Hall, on 57th Street…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … Chai coda not to end? (no station break) Cut Sibelins + (and) replace with Fire J. backwards + (and) upside down.- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … N.Y.P.Y.P.C. #1 DEVELOPMENT (WHAT MAKES MUSIC SYMPHONIC?) [*At Piano*] BERNSTEIN: I [can't tell you how] am very happy [I am] to be back again with you. [, for] These Young People's Concerts…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 2 BERNSTEIN: (CTD) But it's really not so hard, and, if you want to know, it's the most exciting part of all music. And the key to it - and this is…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … BERNSTEIN: (CTD) [*cut tell next arrow? go to P.S.*] [First] Let's listen to one of the greatest examples of development in all music: The last movement of Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony. This movement…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 4 (PIX: MOZART) (ORCH: "JUPITER" SYMPHONY - MOZART-Finale) (5:55)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) [*To Piano*] Now, that's what you call development. Those first four notes have become a mighty work. [*from last arrow cut*] How does this happen? How does development work? In…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 6 BERNSTEIN (CONT 'D) Then comes the third stage - the most important one; change. The flower actually changes its appearance. Or perhaps it's more like a fruit-tree, which we first see…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 7 BERNSTEIN (CONT 'D) Now this theme, or melody, or tune, goes through all kinds of changes before Tschaikovsky is finished with it. It is played softly, No real need [ for…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 12 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 8 TO PODIUM [*cut? (to P.10)*] BERNSTEIN (CONT 'D) [*POD.*] Now let's listen to a typical development section from this symphony - a section that develops that tune only - and see…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 13 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 9 (ORCH: FOURTH SYMPHONY - TSCHAIKOVSKY) (Finale: "B" to "D" short downbeat) (1:40)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 14 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 10 [*(at Pod.)*] [*cut?*] BERNSTEIN (CONT 'D) You see how that little tune has been [*(can be)*] tossed around -- how its shape has [*(can)*] actually been changed? But all that is…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 15 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 11 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) But if you're more babyish and simple-minded, you just say it over and over again: Canada is a tropical country, Canada is a tropical country, Canada is a tropical…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 16 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 12 BERNSTEIN: (CONT'D.) But, as we said, repetition is only a baby way of developing music. And the first stop toward real development is in the idea of variation. Now all variation…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 17 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 13 BERNSTEIN: (CONT'D) Now that's beginning to be development. It's development because it's changing. But it's not exactly symphonic yet. Let's make a big jump now, and see [now] how Beethoven uses…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 18 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 14 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Now hear this next variation; and listen for those skinny notes in the basses and cellos. [*ex?*] (STRINGS: EROICA - BEETHOVEN) while a whole new melody is being played…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 19 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 15 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Well, the first way we've already seen - variation. But there are different ways of making variations; and one of the most common ways is - watch out for…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 20 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 16 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Higher and higher, and that gives the impression of [going] getting somewhere, in other words, a development. Of course, a sequence can also repeat at lower pitches - [*ex*]…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 21 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 17 (ORCH: ROMEO AND JULIET - TSCHAIKOVSKY) (Bars 396 - 418 downbeat) (:40) [*(ex? ----- is too long?*] MORE- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 22 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 17A BERNSTEIN: TO PIANO Did you hear those sequences, piling up power 'til the music explodes like dynamite? (PIANO) Up and up. As you see, sequences are a very easy way to…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 23 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 18 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) (PIANO) Now listen to the sequence he makes out of these two themes. (ORCH: "JUPITER" SYMPHONY-MOZART - "D" for 24 bars) [*With upbeat in horns?*] [*ex? - should any…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 24 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 19 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) The exciting thing about imitation is that when the second voice comes in, imitating the first, the first voice meanwhile goes on playing something else, so that there are…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 25 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 20 BERNSTEIN: (CONT'D) Great. Now that was only in two parts; but now let's get more complicated and do it in three parts. Now who's going to do the third imitation? I…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 26 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 21 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) [*Backwards:*] All we have to know is this: that in developments that use canons and fugues the greatest changes of all can happen to musical themes. For instance, the…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 27 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 22 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) And, as usual, he treats it first in sequences. [*ex 8 bars*] (ORCH: 4TH SYMPHONY - TSCHAIKOVSKY - Bars 225 - 232.) But now, instead of adding to it,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 28 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 23 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) But now it divides again, like an amoeba, and the sequence builds on the last two notes only. [*ex*] (SING) Listen: [*ex*] (ORCH: 4TH SYMPHONY - TSCHAIKOVSKY - Letters…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 29 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 24 (ORCH: 4TH SYMPHONY - TSCHAIKOVSKY - Bar. 223 to end.) (1:40) ag- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 30 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 26 (ON TITLE CARD - DISSOLVE LIVE) ANNOUNCER And here again is Mr. Bernstein. [*cut At Podium*] BERNSTEIN Well, I think now that we've seen enough ways in which music can grow…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 31 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 27 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) [*To Piano*] The piece we're going to put under our microscope is the last movement of Brahm's Second Symphony: brilliant, joyful, satisfying music. But what makes it so satisfying…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 32 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 28 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Then this phrase, which is made up of descending intervals of fourths. (PIANO: 2nd SYMPHONY - BRAHMS - Bars 5 & 6) But then, a few bars later, these…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 33 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 29 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Now comes another development - a change of color - orchestra color. That tune which the strings played first is immediately repeated by the woodwinds. [*ex 4 bars only*]…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 34 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 30 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) That's what Brahms does here: he takes those fourths we heard before (SING) and spreads them out this way. [*ex*] (ORCH: 2nd SYMPHONY - BRAHMS - Bars 44-52 downbeat)…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 35 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 31 BERNSTEIN: (CTD) Now at this very point, Brahms pulls the old stand-by: sequences. And the sequences are built on the very last figure we just heard. (SING) Here it goes, building…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 36 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 32 BERNSTEIN: (CTD) Whenever I hear this part, I am always filled with wonder and respect for the way Brahms makes everything in his music out of something else in his music:…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 37 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 33 BERNSTEIN: (CTD) But even here, in this brand-new melody, Brahms works in a development of something earlier: he takes the opening notes of the movement, (SING) [musical notes] and makes [a…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 38 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 34 BERNSTEIN: (CTD) Now this new melody comes in for a change; this time by changing from what is called the major, which is how we've just heard the theme, to the…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 39 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 35 BERNSTEIN: (CTD) That's why in this short first part of the movement he has already developed more than most composers do in a whole symphony - and it's only the beginning.…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958
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Image 40 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What Makes Music Symphonic? [typescript with emendations in red, … 36 BERNSTEIN: (CONT'D) But the remarkable thing is not just that a melody is upside-down; it's the fact that it's upside-down, and sounds wonderful upside-down. [*examples?*] You see, anyone can take a…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1958