Manuscript/Mixed Material Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad paper]
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Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad … YP-TV #4 The Latin-American Spirit [ORK: Batuque] I'm surprised to find you all in your seats. I'd half expected to turn around and see everyone doing The Samba, or something, up &…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1963
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Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad … 2 [*Don't like term "Latin"] much change or interest there. And as for counterpoint, well, it's almost non-existent. So that leaves us with two elements that [m] distinguish this music, & give…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1963
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Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad … 3 [exciting] hectic boxing match, with unexpected lefts & rights hitting you where & when you least expect them. And that, plus the insistent primitive beat, [acce] explains why you want to…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1963
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Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad … 4 we are, of course, referring to the historical fact that these countries were [first] conquered, settled, and exploited by invaders from Spain - or, in the case of Brazil, by Portugal.…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1963
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Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad … 5 [There is a great deal of] Our Latin neighbors have produced an impressive number of serious symphonic composers who have tried to preserve the folk-flavor & nationalistic features of their own…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1963
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Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad … 6 how well he succeeded, as you will hear, especially in the first movement. There are two movements [to] in this piece, which by the way is written for a soprano voice…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1963
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Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad … 7 Well, so far our music has been all Brazilian, which I'm afraid may give you the impression that Brazil is the main source of Latin American music. Not at all. Every…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1963
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Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad … 8 and [part] to judge by this piece we are now going to hear, he might have achieved true greatness, if he had lived. Here is his Indian-African-Cuban-Mexican poem for orchestra, Sensemayá.…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1963
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Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad … [*WSS Danzon*] 9 Part II (3 40) For the second part of our program, we're going to turn the tables, & salute Latin-America by playing music written by North-American composers under the…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1963
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Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad … 10 heritage, in music as well as in all other departments of life. Of course, not all the music of WSS has these influences: for instance the end of the piece you're…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1963
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Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad … 11 background they come from, they look like princes & princesses as they dance, very straight & aristocractic, with clean, tiny movements. Then there is a little pause, while the dancers [very]…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1963
About this Item
Title
- Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad paper]
Names
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
Created / Published
- March 8, 1963.
Headings
- - Fernandez: Batuque
- - Latin-American dance music
- - Rhythm
- - Syncopation
- - Instrumental color
- - Native-American music
- - Africa
- - Spain
- - Portugal
- - Villa-Lobos, Heitor
- - Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
- - Devrath, Netania
- - Revueltas, Silvestre, 1899-1940
- - Revueltas: Sensemaya
- - Copland: Danzon Cubano
- - The Danzon
- - Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"
- - Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990
- - Teachers
- - Young People's Concerts
Genre
- Manuscripts
Notes
- - Location: Box/Folder 108/08.
- - From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Young People's Concerts Television Scripts Series.
- - For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001
- - Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
Medium
- 11 pages.; 8" x 12.5"
Call Number/Physical Location
- ML31 .B49
Source Collection
- Leonard Bernstein collection, circa 1900-1995
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2023778459
Rights Advisory
- For rights information relating to this resource, visit http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/lbcoll.access
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Subject
- Africa
- Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"
- Copland, Aaron
- Copland: Danzon Cubano
- Devrath, Netania
- Fernandez: Batuque
- Instrumental Color
- Latin-American Dance Music
- Manuscripts
- Native-American Music
- Portugal
- Revueltas, Silvestre
- Revueltas: Sensemaya
- Rhythm
- Spain
- Syncopation
- Teachers
- The Danzon
- Villa-Lobos, Heitor
- Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
- Young People's Concerts