Tags
Language
Tags
March 2024
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
25 26 27 28 29 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Leonard Bernstein - "The Unanswered Question" 5. The XXth Century Crisis [1973] Norton Lecture No. 5 [Re-Up]

Posted By: DanseDePuck
Leonard Bernstein - "The Unanswered Question" 5. The XXth Century Crisis [1973] Norton Lecture No. 5 [Re-Up]

Leonard Bernstein - "The Unanswered Question" 5. The XXth Century Crisis [1973] Norton Lecture No. 5
English | No subtitles | Runs 2:13:58 | 592 x 448 | FPS 29.970 | Xvid 1.0.1 | 1.40 GB | WinRar 5% Rec.
Audio codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) | 48000 Hz | 192 Kbps CBR | Stereo 2 Channels

Mr. Bernstein kicks off with Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole, 4th Movement, to illustrate a total unawareness of a tonal crisis. The bigger and greater the ambiguities, the more immortal is tonality. There is still Rosenkavalier to be written, some operas by Puccini and Firebird. But 1908 breathes an air of disturbance indicating that tonality cannot last, nor figurative painting, nor syntactical poetry, nor the seemingly endless growth of colonial wealth or imperial power. A hint of social collapse. Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism" is to appear. Mahler, writing his 9th Symphony, agonizes over his reluctant and protracted farewell to tonality. Scriabin does so in his Prometheus. Sibelius in his 4th Symphony

Leonard Bernstein - "The Unanswered Question" 5. The XXth Century Crisis [1973] Norton Lecture No. 5 [Re-Up]


Vienna is the center of this "air of disturbance". Karl Kraus writes his critical essays in "Die Fackel" [The Torch], which he founded and directed until his death. But there is one composer who realizes the need for a radical solution to the stretches of Wagnerian ambiguities to their snapping points. Schoenberg contains them. He writes his second string quartet in which he uses a human voice, a soprano, who sings "I feel air from another planet".

Leonard Bernstein - "The Unanswered Question" 5. The XXth Century Crisis [1973] Norton Lecture No. 5 [Re-Up]


Bernstein will in the first part of the lecture give us examples of Berg's violin concerto and will illustrate Charles Ives' "The Unanswered Question": a composer on the other side of the world who also felt this need to tear away from the tonal restrictions. Thus there will be a dichotomy that will govern music from then unto this day.: i) Tonality and syntactic clarity vs. ii) atonality and syntactic confusion. However, ALL write towards a new semantic richness, to expand music's metaphorical speech and increased espressivity. The second part of the lecture centers on
a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Mr. Bernstein in Mahler's 9th Symphony.

Leonard Bernstein - "The Unanswered Question" 5. The XXth Century Crisis [1973] Norton Lecture No. 5 [Re-Up]

Bernstein conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 9



ENJOY!!

Video TECH details:
========================================
AVI File Details
========================================
File Name …………………………………: The Unanswered Question - 5. The XXth Century Crisis.avi
File Size (in bytes) ……………………….: 1,468,559,360 bytes
Runtime …………………………………..: 2:13:58
=========================================
Video Info
=========================================
Video Codec ……………………………….: XviD 1.0.3
Frame Size ………………………………..: 592x448 (AR: 1.321)
FPS ………………………………………: 29.970
Video Bitrate ……………………………..: 1262 kb/s
Bits per Pixel …………………………….: 0.159 bpp
Compatibillity……………………………..: [B-VOP], [], [], []

Audio Info
Audio Codec ……………………………….: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3
Sample Rate ……………………………….: 48000 Hz
Audio Bitrate ……………………………..: 192 kb/s [2 channel(s)] CBR
No. of audio streams ……………………….: 1


Previous Lectures
Lecture No. 4
Lecture No. 3
Lecture No. 2
Lecture No. 1