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.

[@CYBRWOLFF]

43:45 - 44:06 is the greatest part of this video. I have never seen this video until I now. I have to watch it for my Music Appreciation class and I'm in love with it.

[@ofelia829]

This is wonderful.
Thank you for uploading. 🍃

[@JesusRuiz-zb6ie]

What a gem!

[@infernaperulezlpp7502]

28:22 is a mood and a half

[@RModillo]

Wonderful that he risked Webern in this format.

[@___tomo385]

Audience: anticipates the great music as Bernstein raises his arms
Bernstein: nnnNM mmm MMMM

[@alifmuhammadchicago]

Piano in a room at a party: *exists*
Alif: 37:34 - 38:00

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& Rock is NOT dead, it just smells funny

[@davemiller7633]

Oh how our world has changed

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[@deo_gaming6676]

Bernstein predicted musical memes

[@mandya521]

My favorite part is 33:54

[@nanapievids]

anyone here because of a school assignment-

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yeah me too

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YES lmfao

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Uh yeah🤣

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Yup

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Me

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Shout out to my fellow Bears

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School assignment type beat

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[@classicalperformances8777]

of all his masterclasses this is the one i'd skip. composers and academics were( and still are ) obsessed in NOT allowing their precious music to have other meaning. it's very limiting mentality especially for children and it is indeed for the sake of making one feel lesser than. i love him in these young people's concerts series, but his obsession with musical ambiguity( whic he also very verbosely puts out there in his lectures at harvard) is not my favorite thing.

[@bastiatintheandes4958]

Miserable video and audio quality

[@frogmouth]

62 years ago. tv was much worse than film. This was made in 1958 one year before television started in my home city in central Australia. It started in time for the Melbourne Olympics in 1956 in the Eastern States. video tape didn't start till the sixties.

[@cobbsalad7073]

@@frogmouth Little brother got on his account and expected 1080p lol

[@cerealstroke2032]

ahh kids...