Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts Cast: Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic
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- DVD Release Date: 09/28/2004
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Side #1 -- Disc 1
1. What Is Music All About? [5:06]
2. Fun to Listen To [5:10]
3. Inspiration [1:59]
4. The Wrong Story [4:47]
5. The Real Story [4:23]
6. More Don Quixote [2:14]
7. Describing Atmospheres [12:08]
8. Describing Feelings [6:30]
9. The Way Music Makes Us Feel [1:44]
10. Webern [1:59]
11. How the Notes Are Played [12:57]
1. Nationalistic Music [14:54]
2. Our Forefathers [3:39]
3. Dvorak & The New World Symphony [8:19]
4. Graduating to Jazz [6:36]
5. Syncopation [2:13]
6. A New Habit [3:40]
7. It's Not Just Jazz [8:12]
8. "Many Sidedness" [11:15]
1. What Is Orchestration? [8:27]
2. Looking at the Score [2:46]
3. Bad Orchestration [1:27]
4. What a Composer Has to Know and Choose [5:28]
5. An Orchestral Experiment [3:47]
6. Families and Choosing Instruments [6:20]
7. The String Family [7:08]
8. Brass and Percussion Families [2:58]
9. The Symphony Orchestra [5:04]
10. Orchestral Exhibition: Ravel's Bolero [14:39]
Side #2 -- Disc 2
1. Development [11:05]
2. How Does Development Happen? [8:42]
3. Variation [4:15]
4. Sequences [3:52]
5. Imitation & Counterpoint [5:28]
6. Breaking Down [5:06]
7. Brahms Symphony No. 2 [2:30]
8. Augmentation [18:14]
1. What Is Classical Music? [5:45]
2. The Real Difference [3:04]
3. 'Exact' Music [6:55]
4. Perfect Form and Balance [4:16]
5. A Tune That Is Elegant & Refined & Fun [8:50]
6. Amusement and Surprise [2:06]
7. Haydn Symphony No. 102 [:56]
8. Rules Versus Emotion? [8:29]
9. Beethoven & Romanticism [3:45]
1. What Makes Music Funny? [4:00]
2. Funny for Musical Reasons [6:50]
3. Imitating [2:18]
4. Fast & Funny [4:56]
5. Satire [7:16]
6. Puns [6:42]
7. Parody [4:42]
8. Burlesque & Nonsense [11:05]
9. Mickey-Mousing [1:57]
10. Brahms' Fourth Symphony [9:23]
Side #3 -- Disc 3
1. What Is a Concerto? [4:45]
2. Names of Musical Forms [1:39]
3. Vivaldi & The Concertino [9:14]
4. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 [7:07]
5. Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante [8:53]
6. Showing Off [2:06]
7. Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto [7:07]
8. Modern Concertos & Bela Bartok [18:20]
1. 4th Symphony, 1st Movement [5:24]
2. Conductor & Composer [2:29]
3. So Happy, So Sad [3:22]
4. The Secret of Mahler [1:01]
5. 4th Symphony, Last Movement [11:21]
6. The East & The West [1:30]
7. The Song of the Earth: Youth [4:32]
8. Using Voices [1:49]
9. Folk Songs [4:54]
10. The Little & The Big [1:38]
11. Romantic & Modern [14:45]
1. What Is Folk Music? [3:18]
2. It Comes From the Way We Speak [2:37]
3. Different Languages [9:13]
4. Mexico & Sinfonia India [15:47]
5. Real Folk Songs [9:43]
6. Charles Lives - Second Symphony [12:20]
Side #4 -- Disc 4
1. Suggestion [4:33]
2. Impressionistic Painting [2:08]
3. Realistic Music [1:21]
4. Impression of the Sea [11:54]
5. New Sounds [1:36]
6. Half and Whole Tones [2:31]
7. New Chords [1:42]
8. Bitonality [5:07]
9. Debussy - La Mer [16:02]
10. Maurice Ravel [8:06]
1. Happy Birthday [3:38]
2. Changing Styles [3:47]
3. Surprises [1:05]
4. Petrouchka [13:50]
5. Second Scene [6:57]
6. Third Scene [6:53]
7. Fourth Scene [17:36]
1. The Meat and Potatoes of Music [4:37]
2. Development, Theme & Repetition [5:50]
3. Unmelodic [6:36]
4. Counterpoint [2:37]
5. Mozart - Symphony in G Minor [11:38]
6. What Our Ears Expect [2:45]
7. Hindemith [5:00]
8. Brahms [13:45]
Side #5 -- Disc 5
1. Fernandez - Batuque [6:04]
2. Rhythm [1:32]
3. Color [:55]
4. The Non-Latin Ancestry [17:05]
5. Revueltas [8:06]
6. Aaron Copland [9:25]
7. West Side Story [10:40]
1. The Last Sound You'd Expect [4:33]
2. Journey Into Jazz [4:35]
3. You Don't Know Jazz [3:43]
4. Playing With People [1:13]
5. What Do You Feel? [6:01]
6. Aaron Copland [2:06]
7. Larry Austin [:20]
1. A Hard Subject [2:27]
2. What Is a Sonata? [11:38]
3. What Makes it Satisfying? [11:08]
4. The Sonata Form [1:53]
5. Tonality & Exposition [5:02]
6. Development [1:32]
7. Recapitulation [3:10]
8. Prokofiev - Classical Symphony [5:21]
9. Mozart - Jupiter Symphony [10:42]
Side #6 -- Disc 6
1. Who Is Jean Sibelius? [3:16]
2. Finlandia [8:53]
3. The Violin Concerto [16:45]
4. About Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 [8:09]
5. Symphony No. 2 [15:46]
1. Our New Hall [5:03]
2. You Need More Than One Note [1:53]
3. An Interval [1:09]
4. Measuring Intervals [4:06]
5. Where Invervals Start [1:39]
6. Vertical and Horizontal [2:18]
7. Inversion [2:23]
8. Brahms & Thirds [3:37]
9. Brahms Symphony No. 4 [13:10]
10. 12 Notes in an Octave [1:47]
11. Vaughan Williams & Seconds [3:43]
12. Major Seconds [1:15]
13. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4 [2:27]
1. How the Music Should Not Sound [7:35]
2. What's Wrong? - Exaggeration [4:00]
3. Vibrato, Glissando, Rubato [4:45]
4. An Oversized Orchestra [1:28]
5. Haydn, Played Properly [3:40]
6. The Roughness of Beethoven [2:54]
7. French vs. German [8:42]
8. What Is the Sound of an Orchestra? [5:16]
9. Modern Music [6:03]
10. The Sound of American Music [9:05]
Side #7 -- Disc 7
1. Who Is Dmitri Shostakovich? [6:18]
2. About the 9th Symphony [3:37]
3. Wrong Notes [3:56]
4. A Jaunty Second Theme [3:02]
5. First Movement [5:39]
6. Second Movement [11:14]
7. Third Movement [1:24]
8. Fourth Movement [3:57]
9. Fifth Movement [13:48]
1. Special Scales [5:44]
2. Debussy - Fètes [7:59]
3. Dorian Mode [2:32]
4. Dorian Mode in Pop Music [2:47]
5. Sibelius Symphony No. 6 [2:52]
6. Phrygian Mode [2:41]
7. Lydian Mode [1:11]
8. Mixolydian Mode [7:22]
9. Aeolian, Locrian, Ionian Modes [7:18]
10. Debussy - Fètes [3:12]
1. Brother Orchestras [3:56]
2. J. Strauss - Wiener Blut [5:33]
3. Three Groups of Composers [1:26]
4. Mozart [9:11]
5. Hayden & Beethoven [6:07]
6. Christa Ludwig & Walter Berry [14:12]
7. R. Strauss: Rosenkavalier Waltzes [9:50]
Side #8 -- Disc 8
1. Paper and Pencils, Please [5:17]
2. The Quiz, Part One [7:19]
3. Five More Questions of Observation [3:23]
4. Part Two [3:44]
5. Part Three [6:16]
6. True or False [5:32]
7. Musical Terms [3:29]
8. Rimsky-Korsakov [15:36]
1. The First Psychedelic Symphony [4:39]
2. The Theme of the Beloved [1:54]
3. Psychedelic Fireworks [2:48]
4. Theme Development [1:50]
5. The Mad Oboe [6:47]
6. The Ballroom Scene [7:40]
7. Scene in the Countryside [4:39]
8. The March to the Scaffold [8:56]
9. The Dream of the Witches' Sabbath [2:42]
1. Ballet Music Without the Dancing [7:05]
2. Two Kinds of Ballet [1:50]
3. Swan Lake [7:16]
4. The Male Dancer's Turn [2:09]
5. Black Swan & Coda [4:41]
6. Firebird [3:21]
7. Firebird Suite [15:27]
8. Firebird - Berceuse & Finale [9:47]
Side #9 -- Disc 9
1. A Flawed Materpiece [4:33]
2. The Story [3:55]
3. Two Operas Stuck Together [1:54]
4. The Opening of Act Two [14:04]
5. The Duet - Leonore & Rocco [9:04]
6. Trio - Florestan, Leonore & Rocco [7:37]
7. Quartet - Pizarro, Florestan, Leonore & Rocco [10:10]
Editorial Reviews
On the basis of his compositions alone -- including everything from major symphonic works to landmark Broadway scores, including West Side Story and On the Town -- Leonard Bernstein would rank among the musical giants of 20th century. Yet, it is in his role as music director for the New York Philharmonic that he left what may well prove his most edifying legacy: the extraordinary Young People's Concerts telecast over CBS from 1958 to '73, 25 hours of which are presented in this magnificent nine-DVD set. The maestro brings considerable charisma to his role as professor here, lending the air of a master class to the proceedings, yet he manages to be accessible without condescending to his presumed school-age audience. In fact, anyone interested in music beyond pop will benefit from this 25-hour immersion in Bernstein's genius. Many episodes are framed as questions, and his contagious passion informs discussions of everything from music fundamentals ("What Does Music Mean?," "What Is Melody?," "What Is Sonata Form?") to celebrations of specific composers such as Jean Sibelius, Gustav Mahler, and Dmitri Shostakovich. Episodes such as "Humor in Music," "Jazz in the Concert Hall," and "Folk Music in the Concert Hall" offer wonderful entry points to the classical world. In fact, one beauty of the set is that it doesn't demand sequential viewing. What it does call out for, though, is repeat viewing. For any parent who has grown fond of the various Baby Mozart and Brainy Baby offerings, Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts are much more than a next step. This is a singularly brilliant introduction to the expansive world of classical music, one sure to delight interested viewers of all ages. Greg Fagan, Barnes & Noble
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