@@alpinoalpini3849 of course it's not the same.

@@alpinoalpini3849 Whoa, wait... to ALL musicians? Damn... it may have taken you a long time to talk to everyone! :-) Maybe, just say "his movies still look unconvincing to this musician". It's just kinder. Also, much more accurate. Peace :-)

If peoples can't see it - it is a huge compliment and those who can see it, must realise how extreamly Bradley Cooper performs such an extradionary personality. Noone, who wants to be taken serious, can seriously be negative about this issue!😘

Bradley Cooper spent six years learning to conduct six minutes of music so he could film It live on Maestro set.

It takes blood sweat tears and a lot of Time, (AND LUCK ) ( LUCK is when preparation meets opportunity )!!!

Astounding!

Now that is cool!!!

Clearly, you're a Wagner fan guessing & going by your handle. Thank you so much for sharing this fantastic story. I had the extremely good fortune to have had a few encounters with Bernstein. At the time, I had no idea how they would impact my life in ways I could never have predicted. My 1st encounter was as a scholarship student at Tanglewood, the summer home of The Boston Symphony Orchestra. As a soprano, I had no classes with Bernstein, who taught conducting. However, one day, in the middle of a masterclass with Phyllis Curtain, our teacher, in wafted LB with a cloud of men trailing behind him. At some point, he walked upbto the piano, asked the pianist to move over, and he began coaching me on a Mozart lieder (of which there are very few). I was mortified, shaking in my boots but within seconds, he not only put me at ease, removing all fear and self consciousness, he coaxed a sound out of me that I had never heard mysrlf make, which I actually didn't have yet. It would take years before that sound would be mine. The downside of that and many other mind-blowing experiences I had the two summers I spent training there is that it would take years before I would grow into the status of working with great conductors. After Bernstein, the conductors on the level at which I made my career entry paled and horribly disappointed, not only lacking talent but also lacking zest and enthusiasm for music. After a 40 year career, unfortunately, I can count on one hand the conductors I worked with who came close to the magic and genius I experienced that one summer afternoon with LB ( although we students sang in the choir at Tanglewood so we got to see many great conductors in action). Th second encounter happened after moving to NYC from Boston to begin my career. A friend & colleague invited me to go with her to Jessye Norman's dressing room at Carnegie Hall after a performance. She welcomed us as young singers and invited us into her dressing room. At some point, a knock on an adjoining door and in walked LB. There he was with a serious tan and silver gleaming hair dressed in a beautiful multicolored dressing gown. Ms. Norman towering over him turned to us to introduce us, and to my utter astonishment, he remembered me and inquired into my career progress. I met many other world famous artists as a student the two summers and was crestfallen to realize that very few reach the pentacle of the business where true magic is made. Although, I became a solid, working international opera/oratorio/concert singer with a respectable and for some, enviable career singing on many international opera and concert stages, nothing ever quite topped those formidable years walking the halls (or rather grounds) with and learning from the giants of my profession. From what I've seen from the trailer snippets, Cooper has channeled this giant of a man to near perfection.

@@yubantwo2086Thank you for sharing these wonderful moments.

Fantastic story

Same here! We also had Tchaikovsky's "Peter and the Wolf" album, narrated by Einstein. Happened to come across it on NPR Radio last week, and was flooded with warm memories. We were an ordinary farming family, but our mother loved classical music and instilled that love in her children, and my daughter and her children now also love it. The music of "West Side Story" has some of the most beautiful chord changes ever! Bernstein was a genius, and a treasure.

@@rivkaclifford427 How wonderful to have your mother instill this lifelong treasure of the joy, rapture and inspiration of music......whether classical or Broadway, and even rock and roll. I remember my father trashing the Beatle's (who I adored), and then he heard Leonard Bernstein talk about their genius. I admit that I took great satisfaction in that!

I show them to my HS Orchestra Students! ❤

@@joemack10 That's so wonderful Joe. Your students are lucky to have you! My HS was huge and we had four choruses, 2 orchestras and a band. I learned more, not only about music, but about life, from those teachers. Music teachers are the best!!!!!

Reminding me of John Cassavetes more and more lately. Don't forget to add producer to that list of credits

After “Silver Linings Playbook” I realized THIS IS A REAL ACTOR. A magnetic, bona fide movie star who is also an artist. Not many like him.

And you express it so beautifully! ❤

now we just need a George Gershwin movie

@@84paratize There was one made in 1945 with Robert Alda playing Gershwin. The movie's called Rhapsody in Blue. But yes, it could be great to have a new movie made about Gershwin.

Just saw it . Brilliant film. Cooper was great although his Bernstein come off much nicer than Bernstein actually was. Lenny was pretty much a creepy lecherous pompous narcissist who hurt many people. Still a remarkable performance acting and directing. Cooper is just impossible not to like no matter what he is doing or who he plays. This movie really takes him to a new level of artistry. He will be taken seriously. The sky's the limit.

Me too! Cant wait.

Same. And I don’t even like movies.

Omg I thought I was the only who remembered that it’s such a full circle moment to watch his interview there after noticing him ask questions years before

I bet he has a chance. The academy loves to give the award for biographies. Ben Kingsley etc.

Who honestly cares? Bradley Cooper is a multimillionaire, and you're spending your time worrying about him winning some meaningless award? He doesn't spend a single second of his day worrying about you.

The Oscar voters has a better opinion than anybody else, and I trust them.

I'm rooting for Cillian Murphy, but if it doesn't happen. Bradley is my pick

Cillian Murphy tho

Yes and amen!

I'd have to give that honor to Von Karajan, or Toscanini.

Bernstein was the epitome of everything Mahler.

What did you expect them to be like?

@jefolson6989 And how are they supposed to look?

@@sarahjones-jf4pr didn't say anything about their looks. Just how they speak & behave is not what I would have expected. Too normal.I guess.

The eldest daughter's book is an interesting and well-written memoir.

@@jefolson6989 understood you mean manner yes they are refreshingly down to earth don't you think.

Yes. That is the quintessence of Bernstein! Lennie led the Mahler revival and there's no greater piece of Mahler than the Second Symphony, one of the greatest pieces of music, period. Nothing better captures LB as the greatest communicator of music than his conducting the finale of the Resurrection Symphony! I join my friend here in tears just to see this, just to know that those who've not heard or seen this before may now do so. Cooper has performed an invaluable service here!

Saw the movie last night. The Mahler scene was… I can’t describe it, except to say Bradley Cooper found a way to put me (the audience) RIGHT INSIDE THE MUSIC. It was exhilarating, I would even say profound. If this is a bit crude, it was like the best, most communicative sex I’ve ever had.

Six years to become Bernstein, movies have certainly evolved since the old days.

Yes, the Harvard Lectures were NOT for ten or twelve-year olds, but you were too young to have seen Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, which disappeared for years after his last telecast in 1972, before commercial video and youtube.

Yes! I’m so grateful to my parents for recognizing his great worth, and plopping us down in front of the set to watch his programs.

If what you say is true, then I'm very dissapointed of him.

@@leonardogabrieltrevinoloba2377 I think he was simply stating a harsh fact about the general attitude worldwide about women and conducting. He might not have cared if a woman conducted. He was perhaps steering her away from futility.

@@pamelaroyce5285your response disregards the truthful words that came from Bernstein’s own lips. A person can be great yet still have prejudice and flaws.

@@tbizzy2580 the quote does not say women cannot be conductors, or that women are not capable of being conductors. Therefore, this quote is not sufficient evidence of prejudice. It is only a statement that needs elaboration we will never get (because he is dead). This statement alone is not enough to convict him of prejudice. Looking at it as a defense attorney, for example, I would say to the jury he merely said what he believed to be true: women will never be conductors - but he did not say why he thought so. People once said people will never go to the moon. They were wrong but not prejudiced.

silly movie but his charisma came thru loud & clear

The problem with that conclusion is that you have two other actors who are even better in their movies this year: Decaprio in Killsrs of the Harvest Moon and Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer.

@@TheFergyme Cillian was terrific. Haven't seen Flower Moon yet. Yeah. It's tough competition this year.

@@TheFergyme I doubt you have even seen maestro

I doubt you have since it's not out yet.@@kellyzhou9971

Oscar❤

Brilliant film!! Hope you've had to chance to see it

It will stream on Netflix on December 20, 2023

I hope so!

I think it Annette Bening’s this year.

YES!!!! @@annettecampbell6514

I’m saying more than one Oscar. He personally better be nominated for, what?…four Oscars. Epic!

It will be between him and Cillian Murphy