Podcast appearances and mentions of Seymour Bernstein

We have the honor of presenting a fascinating conversation with world-famous pianist Seymour Bernstein. You may know Seymour as the subject of the widely acclaimed 2015 documentary Seymour, an Introduction, directed by Ethan Hawke. The film tells Seymour's inspiring story of abandoning his solo concert career at age 50, and, at the end of the documentary, performing again in his 80s. Yet, as we discuss in this interview, there are other ways to tell this story. Now in his mid-90s (he turns 96 this April), Seymour reflects on his decision to leave solo performing as a necessary refocusing, following his creative impulse to compose, write his books, and study music.  In his 90s, Seymour has been busy making new recordings, continuing to teach, and even becoming a viral YouTube sensation, releasing videos with the music education streaming service ToneBase, as well as on his channel. He shares with us deep reflections on following your intuition in musical interpretation and in life.  Seymour Bernstein is also the author of several books, including With Your Own Two Hands: Self-Discovery Through Music (1981), as well as a memoir, Monsters and Angels: Surviving a Career in Music (2002). In addition to Seymour's reflections on interpreting Beethoven, Chopin, and Schubert we hear some of the under-explored stories from his long career. You'll hear memories of TV appearances with the singer Kate Smith (of “God Bless America” fame), his Army service in the Korean War, State Department tours around the world, Leonard Bernstein, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and his line of teachers, Alexander Brailowsky, Sir Clifford Curzon, and Clara Husserl. Finally, Seymour reflects on what he feels has supported his continued long and productive life in the arts. You can check out and watch Seymour, an Introduction through the Library streaming service Kanopy or find the DVD here on the Deerfield Public Library shelves. The Deerfield Public Library Podcast is hosted by Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the library. We welcome your comments and feedback--please send to: podcast@deerfieldlibrary.org. More info at: http://deerfieldlibrary.org/podcast Follow us: Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube 

In the world of hiring out work, everyone wants to spend less money, get the best quality of work, and get it in the least amount of time possible. Of course. But, here's the thing: of time, money, and quality...you can only ever get two at the same time. And here's the other thing: it's not just the world of hired work, it's kind of everything. We discuss! Also: Josh recommends Ethan Hawk's documentary film Seymour, An Introduction about the amazing pianist Seymour Bernstein (currently on Tubi), and Ira recommends the HBO Max documentary series 100 Foot Wave about Garrett Macnamara's hunt to surf the largest waves in the world.

Andrew Harvey shares his experience of why it takes rigorous discipline to be an artist, why solitude matters, how to cultivate our personal passions, how “networks of grace” can save humanity, and more. He speaks eloquently on how to cultivate sacred friendships and speaks of his “soul brother,” 88-year-old pianist and teacher, Seymour Bernstein, a true wisdom elder. Andrew Harvey is an internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, translator, mystical scholar, and spiritual teacher. He is the Founder/Director of the Institute of Sacred Activism. He is the author of many books including The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spiritual Traditions (Harmony 2001), The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism (Hay House 2009), Teachings of Rumi (Shambhala 1999) and Play Life More Beautifully: Conversations with Seymour (Hay House 2016)Interview Date: 2/29/2016 Tags: Andrew Harvey, Seymour Bernstein, composer, solitude, soul friends, spiritual reservoir, Ethan Hawk, stage fright, charming, spellbound, prayer, elective affinities, soul friends, sacred friendships, forgiveness, soul listening, New Age music, Velazquez, artistic passion, rigorous discipline, Rumi, Bede Griffiths, the Christ path, transfiguration, Jesus, imaginal cells, sacred activists, Networks of Grace, heartbreak, radical action, Art & Creativity, Writing, Music, Philosophy, Spirituality, Social change/politics

Frédéric Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G Minor was revolutionary for its time, and remains a jewel of the piano repertoire today. Touching on everything from Bellini to Cole Porter, poetry to politics, this episode reveals the potency of the piece's opening measures through the eyes (and hands) of acclaimed concert pianists Garrick Ohlsson, Emanuel Ax, Rebecca Penneys, Jerome Lowenthal, Gary Graffman, and Seymour Bernstein. Hosted and created by Lowry Yankwich. Produced by Benjamin Laude, tonebase.

Los hiatos entendidos como un letargo hasta que algo, o alguien, regresa para continuar su camino. Con este concepto iniciamos una conversación sobre música, cine, series, literatura e incluso deportes, temas que sirven de marco para las diversas historias que llenan este episodio. Escuchamos fragmentos de la música de Jardín Delacroix y Extremoduro, para comentar el hiato entre la banda Mars Volta y el inicio de su nuevo proyecto, además de poner el foco en el proceso creativo de Billie Eilish en una canción inspirada en una película de Alfonso Cuarón. Con música muy variada como acompañante de distintas historias recuperamos el documental The Last Dance, adentrándonos en la obsesión por el perfeccionismo de Michael Jordan y en sus numerosos hiatos deportivos, no sin antes volver a inmiscuirnos en la vida de un ajedrecista como Bobby Fischer, rescatado del olvido junto a una película que lleva su nombre gracias al renacer del ajedrez de la mano de Gambito de Dama. Tenemos hueco para Herman Mankiewicz y la nueva obra de David Fincher, Mank. Saltando en el tiempo desde la década de los 30 hasta la actualidad, recorremos distintos puntos clave de la historia que nos cuenta la película, desde el Hollywood de primera mitad del siglo XX hasta la creación de este proyecto para Netflix. Con un pianista como Seymour Bernstein recorremos Nueva York, y tratamos de entender el por qué de su letargo en el mundo del espectáculo, para así cerrar uno de los episodios de mayor duración de Hipopótamos. Un auténtico viaje para que el hiato, la pausa o el letargo puedas permitírtelo tú al escucharnos.

This week, we watched a really pleasant documentary called Seymour, An Introduction. It was directed (and occasionally features) our very own Ethan Hawke! Join us as we talk about Seymour Bernstein, a man truly and lovingly dedicated to his craft. Also, as we mentioned, we'd love it if you could donate to an organization supporting black lives or to a bail fund to help out protestors. Here's the link we mentioned to donate to bail funds to support protestors across the country: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bailfunds

Subscribe to the podcast here!Learn more about the stuff we talk about in this episode here:Assaff Weisman3:54 - How the right teacher can change everything and why he credits his life as a musician to his early teacher, Seth Kimmelman.6:07 - Seth Kimmelman's tragic passing from AIDS.7:59 - Assaff's identity as an Israeli and an American.10:15 - How Israeli Chamber Project started.15:53 - The main learning points and challenges of starting your own organization.18:20 - How our training at Juilliard at the time we received it did not teach us to think entrepreneurially.19:34 - The secret to ICP's longevity.24:40 - The importance of making peace with being in sales and how musicians are really salespeople. Chamber Music America (CMA).28:35 - Why artists resist the concept of "selling."30:50 - Approaching sales as a way to help and connect with people.32:53 - The skills that classical musicians acquire through training that are useful for entrepreneurship.35:06 - "The most important skill is connecting with people." Why connecting is the most valuable skill.36:46 - Seth Godin and Real Skills.38:00 - Seymour Bernstein (Seymour: An introduction). Continuing Education at Juilliard. Performance anxiety and vulnerability.43:59 - How Assaff's career is different from what he thought it would be.49:39 - Assaff's advice to his younger self: say "yes" to everything to combat rigidity of the mind.

In my interview with performance psychologist, Noa Kageyama, we learn what he meant at age 2 when he said "oa wike mugas"; what it was like to studying with Mr. Suzuki himself in Japan as a little kid, how inconsistency in his performances lead to his study of “performance psychology” at Juilliard; how performers can believe that performing poorly means we ‘suck’ as people; what he learned from daydreaming about winning the Lotto; the difference between the ‘critic’ versus the ‘coach’ his surprising reasons for starting his blog; why he’d tell his younger self to play more soccer; and how he answers the question “is it too late?” Learn more about the stuff we talk about! Noa's awesome blog: https://bulletproofmusician.com Noa teaches at the Juilliard School: https://www.juilliard.edu/music/faculty/kageyama-noa The Suzuki Method: https://suzukiassociation.org/about/suzuki-method/ Noa got a double degree at Oberlin: https://www.oberlin.edu Don Greene, Ph.d, Performance Mastery Trainer : http://dongreene.com/live/ Seymour Bernstein, pianist and pedagogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtIcP6AdHo Ethan Hawke and his film about Seymour Bernstein: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/12/ethan-hawke-seymour-bernstein-documentary-interview This is Your Brain on Jazz: Researchers Use MRI to Study Spontaneity, Creativity: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/this_is_your_brain_on_jazz_researchers_use_mri_to_study_spontaneity_creativity Seth Godin: https://seths.blog Alexander Technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Technique Hidden Brain: The Edge Effect, https://www.npr.org/2018/07/02/625426015/the-edge-effect Ivan Galamian, legendary violin teacher of Itzhak Perlman among many others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Galamian Louis Persinger, legendary violin teacher of Yehudi Menuhin, among many others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Persinger

It's a Hawke Cast first! Elizabeth Hopkins returns to discuss Seymour: An Introduction, the documentary Ethan himself directed! It is the tale of the massively talented Seymour Bernstein, accomplished piano player. Seymour's passion for teaching has us reflecting on our own relationships with art and what we want for the future. Enjoy!

Andrew Harvey is an internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, translator, mystical scholar, and spiritual teacher. He is the Founder/Director of the Institute of Sacred Activism.Tags: Andrew Harvey, artist, beauty, music, Seymour Bernstein, music of the spheres, Om, primal sound, mystics, Bach, Brahms, Schubert, Beethoven, Mozart, Art, Creativity, Transformation, Philosophy, Spirituality

“In order to create something you’ve gotta have limitations.” We're finally back! For Shat Talk Episode 004 I spoke with three-time Emmy-nominated pianist and composer Steve Sandberg whose scoring, songwriting, and musical direction for “Dora the Explorer,” “Go, Diego, Go!,” and “Dora and Friends” helped to make these shows the landmarks that they are in children’s television worldwide. We discuss his new classical and world music quartet called Alaya, of which I am a part, as well as his time in the electronic music department at Yale, his passion for Afro-Caribbean, Brazilian, and Indian music, playing in the Rei Momo band w/ David Byrne, studying with Seymour Bernstein, and lot’s more. To go to the fun-funded project page for the new acoustic Alaya CD with Zach Brock go to www.fanfunded.com/Projects/Experie…-Steven-Sandberg Music samples courtesy of Steve Sandberg. "Elastic Plastic Generation" by Steve Sandberg(from Elastic Plastic Generation, 2015, Teknofonic Recordings) "Unicorn Scene" by Steve Sandberg (from Dora The Explorer, Viacom Entertainment) "Oromi" by Steve Sandberg ‎(from Daniel Ponce's album Arawe, 1987, Antilles New Directions) "Prelude No. 2" by Steve Sandberg (personal recording) "Master of Prayer" by Steve Sandberg (from Alaya, 2015) "Janos" by Steve Sandberg (from a soundcheck at Cornelia Street Cafe, 2016) "A Dream" by Steve Sandberg (from Alaya, 2015) www.stevesandbergmusic.com/ @stevesandberg

Dr. Julies talks with Andrew Harvey and Seymour Bernstein all about writing their book and about how we all deserve love on this episode of All Things Connected.

This week, on Music for Life, Music from DePauw...Seymour Bernsteinvoice professor Caroline Smith talks to Dean McCoy about a vocal competition DePauw just finished hosting...Burke Stanton chats with professor Barbara Paré about an intriguing recital of settings of Emily Dickinson's poetry that she and Tony Weinstein are presenting this week...we present some terrific performances recently given on the stages of Thompson Recital Hall and Kresge Auditorium...and Dean McCoy talks with professor Kristina Boerger about a special guest this week, beloved New York-based piano pedagogue Seymour Bernstein, with whom we have a special DePauw connection! SOURCES From their concert of October 14, 2015, the DePauw Chamber Players (May Phang, piano; Tarn Travers, violin; and Eric Edberg, cello) present Maurice Ravel's A Minor Piano Trio.From their recital of October 27, 2015, the DePauw Faculty Woodwind Ensemble (flutist Anne Reynolds, oboist Leonid Sirotkin, clarinetist Randy Salman, bassoonist Kara Stolle, and horn professor Robert Danforth) perform the three movements of Gunther Schuller's Suite: Prelude, Blues, and Toccata.

Joe & Jeff got to check out Ethan Hawk's new film "Seymour: An Introduction"; a documentary film about pianist Seymour Bernstein.

Ethan Hawke takes the director's chair for his new documentary about Seymour Bernstein, an accomplished musician who became equally extraordinary as a music educator. Hawke and Bernstein sit down with 92Y Reel Pieces moderator Annette Insdorf to discuss the film and the genius of creativity. Recorded on March 7, 2015 at 92nd Street Y.

This week's episode comes from last year's New York Film Festival, during which the Film Society paid tribute to actor/ director Ethan Hawke. The special event featured a dinner followed by an intimate discussion with programming director Kent Jones. During the conversation, Hawke spoke at length about his fruitful collaborations with director Richard Linklater, his work in mainstream Hollywood, and his recent transition to working as a director. His directorial debut - SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION - was an official selection in the festival and is now in theaters. The documentary profiles the legendary pianist Seymour Bernstein, who was in attendance at the event. When discussing his reasons for making the film, Hawke admitted that in order to understand, one would need to hear Seymour play. Bernstein then graced the audience with a beautiful rendition of a Brahms Intermezzo. This podcast is brought to you by The Film Society of Lincoln Center. Film Lives Here. www.filmlinc.com

Ethan Hawke is an exceptional actor as well as talker as he joins Josh this week to chat about working on Boyhood, exploring the life and lessons of piano teacher Seymour Bernstein in his documentary Seymour, how movies are about a collective imagination, his name being thrown into the mix for Doctor Strange thanks to Josh, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ethan Hawke discusses Robin Williams, his Dead Poets Society co-star, and Seymour Bernstein, the subject of his new documentary Seymore: An Introduction. Although he met them 30 years apart, Hawke considers both of them his mentors.