Leonard Bernstein: Young People's Concerts | What is Classical Music (Part 1 of 4)

What is Classical Music?

Aired date: Jan 24, 1959

Plot: Bernstein conducts Handel's Water Music and cites it as an indisputable example of classical music. "Exact" is the word that best defines classical music, Bernstein says and he demonstrates with musical illustrations from Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto Mozart's Concerto No. 21 in C Major and The Marriage of Figaro, and Haydn's Symphony No. 102. The decline of classical music at the end of the eighteenth century is tied to Beethoven's innovations and the Romantic movement, and Bernstein conducts Beethoven's Egmont Overture.

For full script: http://leonardbernstein.com/ypc_script_what_is_classical_music.htm

Distributor: KULTUR International Films, Inc.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Music Appreciation
• Classical Music
• Young People's Concerts
• YPC
• New York Philharmonic
• Children's Education

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God bless you Leonard Bernstein and may you rest in peace.

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