Bernstein Conducts Mahler 1963 - Cultural Attaché

Mahler–Complete Symphonies by Leonard Bernstein

Gustav Mahler was born on this day in 1860! Mahler was one of Leonard Bernstein's most beloved composers, and his passion for Mahler contributed to the composer’s resurgent popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly in Europe. "The only difficulty in conducting Mahler is durability, the ability to last, a simple physical problem of maintaining the intensity, concentration and physical energy that is required. . .emotional energy. . . , tension, nervous energy, which is required to take a la

Leonard Bernstein’s Masterful Lectures on Music (11 Hours of Video Recorded at Harvard in 1973)