Leonard Bernstein lectures 2: What does Music mean?
What is Sonata form?
What is a Concerto?
Humour in Music.
What Does Music Mean? Parts 1-4
Aired date: Jan 18, 1958
Plot: Leonard Bernstein told the television audience at the start of the first young People's Concert: "No matter what stories people tell you about what music means, forget them. Stories are not what music means. Music is never about things. Music just is. It's a lot of beautiful notes and sounds put together so well that we get pleasure out of hearing them. So when we ask, 'What does it mean; what does this piece of music mean?' we're asking a hard question. Let's do our best to answer it." During the course of this first program the New York Philharmonic performs portions of Rossini's William Tell Overture, Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, and Ravel's La Valse.
Aired date: Jan 18, 1958
Plot: Leonard Bernstein told the television audience at the start of the first young People's Concert: "No matter what stories people tell you about what music means, forget them. Stories are not what music means. Music is never about things. Music just is. It's a lot of beautiful notes and sounds put together so well that we get pleasure out of hearing them. So when we ask, 'What does it mean; what does this piece of music mean?' we're asking a hard question. Let's do our best to answer it." During the course of this first program the New York Philharmonic performs portions of Rossini's William Tell Overture, Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, and Ravel's La Valse.
Part 2: Note the difficulty of establishing an ‘idea’ in music compared to expressing a ‘feeling’, discussed from around 7:00 min. of this part:
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Part 4:The Webern piece is:Sechs Stücke für großes Orchester, Op. 6 (1909) - 3. Zart Bewegt
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What is Sonata Form? Parts 1-4
What is Sonata Form? Parts 1-4
Aired date: Nov 6, 1964
Plot: Bernstein describes the three-part sonata form, and exemplifies it by singing the Beatles "And I Love Her." Veronica Tyler sings Micaela's aria from Bizet's Carmen and Bernstein conducts the Philharmonic in the first movement of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony.
Aired date: Nov 6, 1964
Plot: Bernstein describes the three-part sonata form, and exemplifies it by singing the Beatles "And I Love Her." Veronica Tyler sings Micaela's aria from Bizet's Carmen and Bernstein conducts the Philharmonic in the first movement of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony.
What is a Concerto? Parts 1-5
What is a Concerto? Parts 1-5
Aired date: Mar 13, 1959
Plot: Leonard Bernstein discusses the development of the concerto form from Bach to Bartok. Bernstein conducts examples of early concertos—Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto and Vivaldi's Concerto in C major. From the classical period, he conducts Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante and, finally, the fourth and fifth movements of Bartok's neo-classical Concerto for Orchestra.
Humor in Music Parts 1-4
Humor in Music Parts 1-4
Aired date: Feb 28, 1959
Plot: Using excerpts from Shostakovitch, Mahler, Haydn and others, Bernstein demonstrates how a "serious" composition can take an unexpected humorous turn. Prokofiev's Classical Symphony is played in its entirety.
Aired date: Feb 28, 1959
Plot: Using excerpts from Shostakovitch, Mahler, Haydn and others, Bernstein demonstrates how a "serious" composition can take an unexpected humorous turn. Prokofiev's Classical Symphony is played in its entirety.