Jeannette Cler, winner of the Voix d'or competition, accompanied at the piano by her husband Jacques Debronckart performs in French an excerpt from the musical West Side Story.
Conductor Leonard Bernstein conducts rehearsals of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the Orchestre de Paris. The National Choir is under the direction of Jacques Grimbert, and the small singers of Saint François de Sales under the direction of Jean Bridier.
Leonard BERNSTEIN playing the piano, cigarette to the lips, then talking about his project of composition, a work which will have the form of a mass, in Latin and in English, with pop music, a symphony orchestra, choirs... ("It is a big thing").
Léonard BERNSTEIN conducted the rehearsals of Gustav MAHLER’s Symphony No. 3, with the Orchestre de Paris, for the March 1970 concerts at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées. On this occasion, he speaks about the composer Gustav MAHLER with whom he has similarities -they are both divided between their creative part and their executive part- and about the conducting of orchestra: "nothing good, is easy".
Arrival of the American conductor Leonard Bernstein during a rehearsal session with the Orchestre national de France. Dressed in jeans, he settled down on his piano and began to play passages of Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G Major, in view of the concerts he conducted at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris on 19 and 20 September 1975.
Presentation of the famous American conductor Leonard BERNSTEIN. He also plays and directs Ravel’s G-1 concerto. Excerpt from the rehearsal of the first movement of this concerto with the Paris orchestra. A reminder of the special place occupied by Bernstein in the world of music.
The great American conductor Leonard BERNSTEIN delivers a course at the American Conservatory of Fontainebleau. Full of humour, he sings "I lost the C of my clarinet" with the students, and gives his advice to ten young conductors.
Interview with conductor Leonard BERNSTEIN: he talks about his way of conducting the Concerto in G major for piano and orchestra by Maurice Ravel, playing himself on the piano, "but it’s not easy because he already considers himself an old man, things go much slower". He is currently working with the Paris Orchestra.