By RM
saturday, april 19, 2025 at 11:20:00 p.m. edt
Trivia note: Columbia was not above recycling Lenny's OTW score, just as they did with all their other composers. I wonder if he ever turned on the TV, and was bemused to hear his music appearing in some B-picture like Rumble on the Docks!
Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts series was available on youtube, and may still be. A priceless crash course in classical music (with some jazz and pop thrown in).
-RM
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"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."
Leonard Bernstein - Young People's Concerts: What Does Music Mean?
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