Manuscript/Mixed Material Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal pad paper]
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Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … YP-TV#1 {30 Sept 13 Oct} 1962 [*(Mention Beranek?) (Tribute to Carnegie?)*] The Sound of a Hall (ORK: Last 2 chords (3 bars) of Roman Carnival) {Welcome to That is the sound of…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 2 [and] even the choice of the [rugs] carpets you walk on, and the fabrics for the chairs you're sitting on. All these things affect the sound, in one way or another.…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … Of course, with all the scientific planning in the world you can never be absolutely sure in advance of how the hall will sound; [There's always a certain amount of guesses] because…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 3 it also has its scientific side. After all, music is sound, and sound is caused by vibrations, which send out waves that register on your receiving set, which is your two…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 4 (loud) "hello", and you then hear an answering (soft) "hello", you are hearing an echo; but if I yell (loud) "hello", and you then hear (soft) "o-o-o-o" dying away in the…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … It's easy to understand that the more reverberation there is, the richer & fuller the music will sound. But if there's too much reverberation, the music will sound too full & rich,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 5 [And so, applying all their knowledge of physics and math, they set out to design this hall to have a reverberation In] Now 2 1/2 seconds is a rather long reverberation…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … So that the music is just juicy enough, and also clear enough. Now how do you command [make an] a hall have an exact reverberation time? First of all, by controlling those…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 6 tell you, it was far from the perfect hall. First of all, there was not enough [the problem of] intimacy - that sense of being really close to the music. So…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 7 Then someone had the thought: ah but the sound we're hearing isn't the same as the the sound the hall would have if it were filled with an audience, because the…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 8 Again, I could spend hours telling you of all the adjustments and experiments that were made; but I'll skip right to the happy ending: on Sept. 18th we had our first…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 12 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 9. Isn't that a beauty? I think it is the most touching of all Schubert's songs. And I also think you'll agree that as sung by Miss V-C, in this hall, it…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 13 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 10 So far so good. But we haven't tested all the problems yet, by a long shot. That Vivaldi Concerto, don't forget, is all strings - violins, violas, cellos, bass. But what…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 14 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 11 playing exactly together are pretty great. And you know how important "togetherness" is in a symphony orchestra! The piece we're going to hear now is a particularly tough test for this…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 15 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 12 Well, that seemed to work. But it's still "little" music; [chamber music, to be exa] and now as we begin to get into big sounds, the new problems arise of echo,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 16 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 13 in the pauses after the [chord has] players have stopped. The players have stopped; but the music goes on, for exactly ___ seconds. Here now are Daniel Pinkham's Catacoustical Measures. Pinkham…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 17 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 14 And so, to wind up the festivities, [we're] and celebrate our [new] beautiful new acoustics, we're going to play a real piece of fireworks - Chaikovsky's Overture 1812. This famous old…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 18 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … I can't think of a better way to test a hall for liveness, intimacy, warmth, brilliance, clarity, blend, texture, [and] dynamic range, and all the rest - than this 1812 Overture.- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 19 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … 15 [joint,] which explains the brass band, the bells, and the cannon. If the house doesn't fall down about our ears at the end of this piece, [then] and if you can…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 20 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [pencil on yellow legal … Talk - 25 Berlioz 10 Schubert Vivaldi 15 Walton Pinkham 5 Chai 15 70' and more to come!!- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962