{"id":13550,"date":"2014-09-02T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=13550"},"modified":"2014-09-02T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:13:32","slug":"haydn-go-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/02\/haydn-go-seek\/","title":{"rendered":"haydn go seek?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#8217;s what the great Leonard &#8216;Lenny&#8217; Bernstein is doing here with the Vienna Philharmonic. He&#8217;s employing a minimalist method of conducting &#8211; but he still\u00a0<em>is<\/em> conducting. He&#8217;s using his most important conductorial attributes: his eyes and face. All the great ones do &#8211; and it&#8217;s what makes for almost telepathic communication between conductor and orchestra. Now, I should warn inexperienced conductors, maybe don&#8217;t try this with just any orchestra. It has to be an orchestra that can play chamber music together &#8211; all\u00a0very good to great orchestras can do this &#8211; and then the conductor is something akin to the &#8216;secret sauce&#8217;. Enjoy! This is Leonard Bernstein &#8216;conducting&#8217; the Vienna Philharmonic.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oU0Ubs2KYUI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#8217;s what the great Leonard &#8216;Lenny&#8217; Bernstein is doing here with the Vienna Philharmonic. He&#8217;s employing a minimalist method of conducting &#8211; but he still\u00a0is conducting. He&#8217;s using his most important conductorial attributes: his eyes and face. All the great ones do &#8211; and it&#8217;s what makes for almost telepathic communication between conductor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[299,2],"tags":[3678,3579,3580,3581,3578,2281,816],"class_list":["post-13550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conducting","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-conducting","tag-eyes","tag-face","tag-haydn-88","tag-lenny","tag-leonard-bernstein","tag-vienna-philharmonic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3wy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12654,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/13\/beethovens-tenth\/","url_meta":{"origin":13550,"position":0},"title":"beethoven&#8217;s tenth","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Beethoven's Tenth Symphony\" was the moniker assigned (by the noted conductor and pundit Hans von B\u00fclow) to Johannes Brahms' First Symphony, which was some twenty years in its gestation, such was both his own penchant for draconian self-criticism (it's said that he destroyed at least six completed string quartets, allowing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;appreciation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/xyUpyFm_O-k\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14427,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/30\/james-depreist-conducting-in-1966\/","url_meta":{"origin":13550,"position":1},"title":"James DePreist conducting in 1966","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I just became aware of this video from the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts. 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One of the things that struck me this year was just how many professional musicians\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;appreciation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/lb-100-500x250.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4674,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/19\/a-mahler-apperitif\/","url_meta":{"origin":13550,"position":3},"title":"a mahler ap\u00e9ritif","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A portion of the last movement of Mahler's First Symphony with Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;the orchestra world&quot;","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1399,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/06\/my-old-friend-brahms\/","url_meta":{"origin":13550,"position":4},"title":"my old friend Brahms","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow we have a rehearsal for the next Inside the Score concert, which will feature Brahms' First Symphony.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the few advantages of playing in an orchestra that has a limited number of classical weeks is that I'm not yet sick of any of the Brahms symphonies, especially the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;appreciation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7190,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/29\/young-conductor\/","url_meta":{"origin":13550,"position":5},"title":"young conductor","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This one just made me smile: an 8 year old came up and tried his hand at conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in the witches' ride section of Humperdinck's opera \"Hansel and Gretel\". 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