The transformative power of classical music | Benjamin Zander | TED

sometimes I need to listen to a super old person

no one is tone deaf. Amen

His way communicating the essence of music is astonishing.

Was trying to listen to the piece when he said to think of someone with headphones but I swear all I could hear is whoever is recording trying to stay alive

I've probably watched this video a few times, and it always gets me. How wonderful the world of classical music is.

Christianity is true proof is in the replies.

I've seen this video 100x and it's always incredible.

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This is the best Ted talk i ever watched

I fell in love with classical music all on my own. I heard swan lake in my childhood and that was enough. Issue was i didn't know what that piece was, my mom told that's music in Barbie. I was distraught that such beautiful music came from BaRbIe(i was a stereotypical boy). I almost watched barbie for that, but nope. A few years later i heard of Tchaikovsky and my god, i understood why i never listened to songs with lyrics, my mind was always searching for Swan lake whevever i listend for something.

I have never been struck by the brilliance to the extent I am now.

All too lovely❤

Godbless Zander, masterpiece of a presentation.

Name of the song with the "4 sads"

It's lucky to see a communicative pianist！after watching this video I cried

It`s amazing... Thank you, Bendjamin!

CM is immortal.

As a conductor he's done well in identifying what he actually does: giving power to the instrumentalists. As an educationist that gave me a better perspective of who I am. As he says, as an educationist my job has and is to awaken the possibilities in each of my students young or old. They empower themselves through my "conduct."

Quite frankly one of the best Ted Talks I've ever heard. Wow.

Throughly outstanding 👏

This is such a great Ted talk and 14 years later with only 7.5m views? You can really tell the classical music circle has not grown much which is very sad

I love classical music but there is so much classical music that is boring and dreary.
I love the Emperor by Beethoven.

I'm blind to classical... But the piece brought tears to much needed eyes......wooooooooow!!!!! Never imagined such a thing before...... Feeling at a loss of words..... Thanks a lot for such an incredible introduction into the world of classical music....❤❤

Beautiful

Jeb

Love you Benjamin Zendar ❤

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This is one video you should never interrupt with ads…

Can Ted re-upload or do anything about this video so the quality can be better again?

What in the 240p energy drink is going on here

Tears gushed down from my eyes not even 10 seconds of him playing the piece

That hit me like a freight train... Superb.

Thank you Zander, you are a brilliant teacher of life, not only music! May I use your video to inspire a group of people working for our new 🌎 we love you!

Please reupload this in a better quality

In the chatGPT era, everything is getting trimmed. But whenever I listen to Mozart, Vivaldi or Beethoven I compel myself to get submerged in the meditation of understanding the beautiful story, they had inscripted in their evergreen compositions😢❤

This is incredible. Thank you.

Bravo! Thank you! ❤❤❤

At last the way he spoke shining eye, shining eye, ooooo ooooo, gave Mr. Bean vibes, but the message was great

major and minor switch

A beautiful man who genuinely love music, and the only thing he concerns are the people whom he meet and perform music to. You may disagree with me, but it is true , that the foundation of the world, lies on such a man.

I heard this, was moved.
Sometime later, in the middle of COVID, I had the opportunity to share this with my granddaughter, who was missing her great-grandmother who had passed away four years earlier.
Afterward, she said, "Thank you."

Beyonce's performance of Be Alive at 2022 Oscars has gotten me sooo into classical music. Im so inlove with this genere of music now. My fav instrument is the cello.

It was a lovely clip, until the last 30 seconds !

I was not ready for his revelation about the siblings on the train

I'm 18 and I love classical music. I think I got the love of classical music from Tom and Jerry because they always use classicals as sound tracks

I have bad insomnia & this is the only playlist that lets me sleep peacefully without later waking up! I love it! Thank you for playing so beautifully!

Thank you Ben. And thank you TED

나도 저분이 뭐라고 하시는지 알아듣고 싶다.

I do that raising the eyebrows thing, when I play a note that's meant to build up the next section of the piece, but sounds wrong in the moment - thanks to this man! XD