ep.04 - The Second Hurricane

Young People´s Concerts Season 3 Episode 04 – The Second Hurricane Students from the New York City High School of Music and Art perform Aaron Copland's opera The Second Hurricane. Leonard Bernstein conducts and provides narration for the opera, which concerns the fictional plight of students who became stranded during a relief mission to the site of a natural disaster. Notably, this specific episode had been lost at one time but was recently discovered, thus completing the archive Originally aired on CBS Television Network, April 24, 1960

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.