Little Drummer Boy: Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein (1985)
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Little Drummer Boy: Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein
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| Directed by | Leonard Bernstein |
| Cast | Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp, Walton Groenroos and London Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Theatrical Release | November 30, 1984 |
| DVD Release | September 11, 2007 |
| Running Time | 85 minutes |
| MPAA Rating | NR (Not Rated) |
| UPC Code | 044007343500 |
| Buy this item | $19.97 at Amazon.com As of Dec 1 13:21 EST (details) 1 DVD, Philips, Usually ships in 24 hours, AC-3, Classical, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Languages: English (Original Language - PCM Stereo), German (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), Mandarin Chinese (Original Language), Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) |
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(1 reviews)| |  | Learn at the feet of the master |  |
Previously I had thought that I knew quite a bit about Gustav Mahler, but Leonard Bernstein showed me more.
What Bernstein does is show you--through biographical commentary and excerpts from Mahler's music--just what it was that made this masterful composer and conductor so obsessed with Life and Death.
Yes, part of it was Mahler's being born Jewish, and part was seeing so many of his brothers and sisters die so early in life. But Bernstein shows us how Mahler was, like most of us, striving to try to come to terms with life--to understand why death has to come and deprive us of the joys of life.
To give you an idea of how concrete, knowledgeable and specific this program is, Lenny takes a few minutes, using musical excerpts, to illustrate how there is a funeral march in each of Mahler's nine symphonies.
If you like Mahler, and would like to understand him better, get a friend to watch this with you, and learn at the feet of the master. This one is a must for those who love Mahler or Bernstein!
April 3, 2008
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