Manuscript/Mixed Material Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper with emendations in ink & red & black pencil]
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Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … [*LB Script*] NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS #1 6TH SEASON 1962-1963 WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN "THE SOUND OF A HALL" [*Final Version of original presentation Sept. 30, 1962 in Philharmonic Hall for…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … OPENING FILM (WITH SOUND EFFECTS ON TRACK) ANNOUNCER (V.O.) (ON CUE) Shell Oil takes you to the newest home of the world's greatest musical events, Philharmonic Hall at New York City's Lincoln…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … [*My dear young friends*] BERNSTEIN Welcome to Philharmonic Hall, the new home of [our] the New York Philharmonic, here at Lincoln Center. You all know how exciting it is to move into…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 3 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) That's the main thing in a concert hall; and I think that probably more time and work and thought has gone into planning the sound of this hall than…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 4 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Well, in this hall you should know the difference, because it has been scientifically planned to deliver the music to you in all its brilliance, fullness, and clarity. Of…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 5 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) You see, in the old days when they built a hall, whether the acoustics turned out well or badly you were stuck with them. That is the way it…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 6 SUPER TELOP BERLIOZ ROMAN CARNIVAL OVERTURE (ORCHESTRA) (9:10) (APPLAUSE)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 7 BERNSTEIN How's that for sound? Do you approve? (ad lib) - I don't ask for a hand There's a problem here To me up here on the podium it sounds perfectly…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 8 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) And that's where physics comes in: because this physical science of acoustics can decide how much sound is going to be absorbed, and how much reflected; and it's that…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 9 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) If I yell (LOUD) "hello", and you then hear an answering (SOFT) "hello", you are hearing an echo; but if I yell [*right*] (LOUD) "hello", and you then hear…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 10 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) But if there's too much reverberation, the music will sound too full and too rich, too live and become unclear and muddy. It's as though I played [this bit…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 12 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 11 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Now that's a lot of numbers. I don't expect you to remember them, but I wanted to give you some idea Now 2 and 2/10 seconds is a rather…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 13 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 12 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Then, of course, comes the design of the hall: how high the ceiling is, how wide and long the hall is, how wide and deep the stage is. I…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 14 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 13 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Now all those ears, human and mechanical, were concentrating on every type of sound: electronic sounds made by special machines; cannon and pistol shots, like this one (BANG), and…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 15 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 14 SUPER TELOP PINKHAM CATACOUSTICAL MEASURES (ORCHESTRA) (4:20) (APPLAUSE)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 16 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 15 BERNSTEIN Pretty weird stuff. When we played these strange Catacoustical Measures, last May, they clearly showed up the hall's reverberation time very clearly. But they also showed up a good number…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 17 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 16 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) And so those low instruments were put on special low platforms, or risers, and then on even higher ones. Then screens were placed around them. Then the floor of…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 18 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 17 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) These pads were smilingly called "instant people", you can imagine what this hall looked like filled with all those -- and during that week we came to know them…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 19 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 18 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Maybe someday, in the wild science-fiction future, we'll be able to do that. But for the present, the best answer is to find the one best balance for all…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 20 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 19 SUPER TELOP SCHUBERT DU BIST DIE RUH (SOPRANO AND PIANO) (4:50) (APPLAUSE)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 21 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 20 BERSTEIN 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 Verrett-Carter, in this hall,…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 22 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 21 SUPER TELOP VIVALDI CONCERTO FOR FOUR VIOLINS (ORCHESTRA) (1st MOVEMENT 4:10) (APPLAUSE)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 23 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 22 BERNSTEIN 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…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 24 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 23 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) The texture also depends on where the orch. is placed placement of the orchestra -- and don't think we didn't spend hours during that tuning week last May shuffling…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 25 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 24 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) The piece we're going to hear now is a specially tough test for togetherness in this hall to pass, because the five instruments that will play it are scattered…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 26 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 25 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) The one we're doing is a sort of Spanish number, part tango and part Paso-doble; and if you don't understand what [it] the words [means] mean, don't worry, because…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 27 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 26 SUPER TELOP WALTON TANGO PASODOBLE FROM "FACADE" (ORCHESTRA - LEONARD BERNSTEIN, RECITER) (1:45) (APPLAUSE)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 28 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 27 BERNSTEIN [*S.D. tr*] When Don Pasquito arrived at the seaside Where the donkey's hide tide brayed, he Saw the banditto Joe in a black cape Whose slack shape waved like the…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 29 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 28 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) For the lady and her friend from Le Touquet In the very shady trees upon the sand Were plucking a white satin bouquet Of foam, while the sand's brassy…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 30 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 29 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) You're hearing quite a bit of peculiar music today. Well, that seemed to work. But it's still "little" music [and] so now [as we] let's get back to big…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 31 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 30 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) This famous old war-horse isn't played as much as it used to be: it's one of those pieces that get so famous they begin to be considered almost "pop"…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 32 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 31 BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) If the house doesn't fall down about our ears at the end of this piece, and if you can still hear yourself think, then you'll know we've got a…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 33 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 32 SUPER TELOP TSCHAIKOWSKY OVERTURE 1812 (ORCHESTRA) (14:25) (11:45 w/cut) (APPLAUSE)- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 34 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 33 COMMERCIAL AND INTRO- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 35 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Sound of a Hall [typescript on blue paper … 34 ANNOUNCER (V.O.) From Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center -- another in the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS under the musical direction of Leonard Bernstein has been presented by Shell Oil…- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962