This interview (~ 37 minutes) with pianist/composer/teacher Seymour Bernstein is just brilliant. Wow. Topics touched upon in the video include: music, creativity, stage fright, teaching, and growing older. Now I want to find and watch Ethan Hawke's documentary of Bernstein.
Lots of insights (and humor & candor) but these moments stood out for me, even as someone about 50 years younger than maestro Bernstein:
"When you get older, you stop playing games...you stop saying what people expect you to say, and you say the truth."
"You know what I love best about teaching? I love the feeling of making a pupil feel good about themselves."
To Evgeny Kissin: "Your playing is transcendental...Do you know what you must do now? You must never give another recital unless you include some of your own pieces."
Lots of insights (and humor & candor) but these moments stood out for me, even as someone about 50 years younger than maestro Bernstein:
"When you get older, you stop playing games...you stop saying what people expect you to say, and you say the truth."
"You know what I love best about teaching? I love the feeling of making a pupil feel good about themselves."
To Evgeny Kissin: "Your playing is transcendental...Do you know what you must do now? You must never give another recital unless you include some of your own pieces."
