http://www.leonardbernstein.com/educator.htm
by Jamie Bernstein
"It may have been delightfully silly to hear my father squawk his way through those pop songs, but it also signaled to the audience that Leonard Bernstein listened to contemporary pop music — and liked it. That meant a lot in those days, when parents were turning up their noses at Elvis, Motown and the Beatles, and so-called experts would criticize popular music as brainless and even harmful. But hey: Leonard Bernstein thought the Beatles were great! And the Supremes too, and the Stones, and Latin American music, and African war chants and Louis Armstrong and Balinese gamelan and... well, that was exactly it: Leonard Bernstein loved music. ALL of it. And he gave a clear signal to his audiences that it was OK to love all music — and not to put a value judgment on one genre over another. He was the unsnobbiest person you could ever hope to meet. He loved people and was curious about everything."
― Everything else is secondary, Sunday, 25 December 2011 04:40 (twelve years ago) link
The only (extremely brief) clip I can find from his 1967 TV special is at 4:54 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWriMsTALF4
― Tarfumes the Escape Goat, Sunday, 25 December 2011 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
scored the big Smile box today unexpectedly! exciting!
― by (mennen), Sunday, 25 December 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
oof did not get the big smile box. my family and I are through. i did get that fahey set tho, so i guess i shouldn't complain.
― tylerw_sandbox, Sunday, 25 December 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
Those close-ups of ancient analog tape decks in the last segment with George Martin are giving me the warm-and-fuzzies
― Everything else is secondary, Monday, 26 December 2011 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
Smile Sessions LP/CD boxset for Christmas you guys! :-D :-D
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 10:12 (twelve years ago) link
honestly think my favorite thing about these so far is the two 7" singles― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:36 (6 days ago) Bookmark Permalinkis one of those just all heroes & villains? i like the idea of that.― tylerw_sandbox, Thursday, 22 December 2011 21:01 (6 days ago) Bookmark Permalinkyeah one is Heroes and Villains Pt 1/Heroes and Villains Pt 2 and the other is Surf's Up/Vega-Tables. The mixes/edits for each are great and had some new bits I had not heard (or maybe noticed) before― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 22 December 2011 21:06 (6 days ago) Bookmark Permalink
― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:36 (6 days ago) Bookmark Permalink
is one of those just all heroes & villains? i like the idea of that.
― tylerw_sandbox, Thursday, 22 December 2011 21:01 (6 days ago) Bookmark Permalink
yeah one is Heroes and Villains Pt 1/Heroes and Villains Pt 2 and the other is Surf's Up/Vega-Tables. The mixes/edits for each are great and had some new bits I had not heard (or maybe noticed) before
― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 22 December 2011 21:06 (6 days ago) Bookmark Permalink
Ah, so these 7" versions are different to the LP/CD versions?
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 10:28 (twelve years ago) link