Select Composers
I urge you to watch the many other youtube clips elsewhere on this site in which many other composers are featured, including Stravinsky, Gershwin, Debussy, Ravel and Tchaikovsky. every serious music student should have some exposure to the standard repertoire of the concert hall, just as a writer needs to have read the work of others. This is what is meant by music literacy.
Berlioz Takes a Trip Parts 1-4
Aired date: May 25, 1969
Plot: Bernstein discusses what he describes as the "first psychedelic symphony", Berlioz's La Symphonie Fantastique, examining the concept of the idée fixe in music and illustrating this concept with excerpts from the first movement. Bernstein analyzes the music and discusses the story line of the remaining movements which are performed by the Philharmonic.
Note how the analysis contradicts the lecture: what does music mean:
Aired date: May 25, 1969
Plot: Bernstein discusses what he describes as the "first psychedelic symphony", Berlioz's La Symphonie Fantastique, examining the concept of the idée fixe in music and illustrating this concept with excerpts from the first movement. Bernstein analyzes the music and discusses the story line of the remaining movements which are performed by the Philharmonic.
Note how the analysis contradicts the lecture: what does music mean:
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A Tribute to Sibelius Parts 1-4
Aired date: Feb 19, 1965
Plot: Bernstein celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, and comments on Finland, the Finnish language, and Finnish patriotism, as well as Sibelius himself. Works by the composer including Finlandia, and the first movement of his Violin Concerto, with soloist Sergiu Luca, are performed.
Aired date: Feb 19, 1965
Plot: Bernstein celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, and comments on Finland, the Finnish language, and Finnish patriotism, as well as Sibelius himself. Works by the composer including Finlandia, and the first movement of his Violin Concerto, with soloist Sergiu Luca, are performed.
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