Learning from Leonard Bernstein | The Conductor | Great Performances on PBS

Marin Alsop reflects on her first interaction with Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Festival.

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[halbos]

WOWWW!!! No wonder you are so great MARIN! Your attitude and background in music. Thank you Mr. Bernstein!

[Quotenwagnerianer]

If I were a conductor I would die with envy. Getting to learn from Bernstein, what a gift.

[zerksepraga]

So short a video, and yet so moving that it makes me she'd tears I don't understand. Bernstein was successful in the sense that he had produced such accomplished musicians and powerful conductors as Marin and many others. What's specially touching is the bond between Bernstein and his pupils. It was and is indeed "beyond magical."

[inezgraer]

You are a rare gem Marin! An example to all young people, not just women. Your attitude to life is refreshing, modern and exciting!

[madavi]

Of course, she is not a woman, she is an angel.

[WinrichNaujoks]

Today he'd be sued to high heavens for touching, hugging and kissing her like that.

[berndwickenhaeuser]

Whats the name of the Piece at the end of the Video?

[ronwade]

Late of course? Not when he came to Phoenix, we were playing Ov.to Candid which is just wicked for string players and we just "thought" we came to rehearsal early by getting into Symphony Hall 2 hours before. He was already there practicing his piano scores and singing loudly and of course smoking like a chimney. In the symphonic world one does not simply, come in late.

[helenateixeira]

When someone is being a creep the victim knows it, body language does not lie. Bernstein was just being himself and Marin knew it. Mum, the first time she saw a woman taxi driver was absolutely euphoric, at the Berlin Dome a woman Decon at evening prayer made her day, and at the end, at the door, she probably took a bit of the young woman's hand with her. (Mum wasn't into theology) When I saw my first woman bus driver, I had to tell her my mum would have loved seeing her🤭... Bernstein was a smart chap.

[TheSuzberry]

I remember the brouhaha from the orchestra when she was appointed conductor of the Baltimore Symphony. She showed them.

[lunetelalune]

I love Bernstein, but his comment that "when I close my eyes, I can't tell you're a woman" was low-key misogynistic.

[inthedesert]

Lots of inappropriate touching there…well, by today’s impossible standards…😮

[whosaysitmatters]

his behaviour is sickening, in a Bill Crosby kind of way

[Richard-brv]

The way Lenny had his arm around her was his way of flirting with her.