ep.02 - What is Classical Music?

Young People's Concerts Season 2 Episode 2 - What is Classical Music? Leonard Bernstein conducts Handel's Water Music and cites it as an indisputable example of classical music. He defines classical music using the word "Exact", explaining that “classical music” accurate refers to music written mainly in the eighteenth century. 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. Bernstein then ends exposing that the decline of classical music is tied to Beethoven's innovations and the Romantic movement, conducting Beethoven's Egmont Overture. Originally aired on CBS Television Network, January 24, 1959.

Om Podcasten

On January 1958, Leonard Bernstein leading the New York Philharmonic broadcast for first time the Young People’s Concerts, introducing an entire generation to the joy of classical music. In a similar spitit, this “podcast”, is an attempt to archive in audio form the 53 performances that we were lucky to get, and in this way, provide a new generation with Bernstein’s incredible lectures. The material belongs to the NYPhil and Unitel Entertainment, and I don’t wish to gain anything from it. My only purpose is to share the incredible work that Bernstein and the Philharmonic gave to us.