New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts - Season 1 Episode 1 What Does Music Mean?
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.
First Air Date: Jan 18, 1958
Last Air date: Mar 26, 1972
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 53 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
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Season
Season 1
Episode
What Does Music Mean?
What is American Music?
What is Orchestration?
What Makes Music Symphonic?
What is Classical Music?
Humor in Music
What is a Concerto?
Who is Gustav Mahler?
Young Performers No. 1
Unusual Instruments of Present, Past, and Future
The Second Hurricane
Overtures and Preludes
Aaron Copland Birthday Party
Young Performers No. 2
Folk Music in the Concert Hall
What is Impressionism?
The Road to Paris
Happy Birthday, Igor Stravinsky
Young Performers No. 3
The Sound of a Hall
What is a Melody?
Young Performers No. 4
The Latin American Spirit
A Tribute to Teachers
Young Performers No. 5
The Genius of Paul Hindemith
Jazz in the Concert Hall
What is Sonata Form?
Farewell to Nationalism
Young Performers No. 6
A Tribute to Sibelius
Musical Atoms: A Study of Intervals
The Sound of an Orchestra
A Birthday Tribute to Shostakovich
Young Performers No. 7
What is a Mode?
Young Performers No. 8
Charles Ives: American Pioneer
Alumni Reunion
A Toast to Vienna in 3/4 Time
Forever Beethoven
Young Performers No. 9
Quiz-Concert: How Musical Are You?
Fantastic Variations (Don Quixote)
Bach Transmogrified
Berlioz Takes a Trip
Two Ballet Birds
Fidelio: A Celebration of Life
The Anatomy of a Symphony Orchestra
A Copland Celebration
Thus Spake Richard Strauss
Liszt and the Devil
Holst: The Planets