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    Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic [9 Discs]

    Leonard Bernstein
     Cast: Leonard Bernstein


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    (Black & White)

    $149.99
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    • Release Date: 09/28/2004
    • UPC: 0032031150393
    • Original Release: 2004
    • Source: KULTUR ***
    • Region Code: A
    • Presentation: [B&W]
    • Sound: [Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
    • Language: English
    • Runtime: 90000
    • Sales rank: 19,369

    Scene Index

    Side #1 -- Disc 1
    1. What Is Music All About? [5:06]
    2. Fun to Listen To [5:10]
    3. Inspiration [1:59]
    4. The Wrong Story [4:47]
    5. The Real Story [4:23]
    6. More Don Quixote [2:14]
    7. Describing Atmospheres [12:08]
    8. Describing Feelings [6:30]
    9. The Way Music Makes Us Feel [1:44]
    10. Webern [1:59]
    11. How the Notes Are Played [12:57]
    1. Nationalistic Music [14:54]
    2. Our Forefathers [3:39]
    3. Dvorak & The New World Symphony [8:19]
    4. Graduating to Jazz [6:36]
    5. Syncopation [2:13]
    6. A New Habit [3:40]
    7. It's Not Just Jazz [8:12]
    8. "Many Sidedness" [11:15]
    1. What Is Orchestration? [8:27]
    2. Looking at the Score [2:46]
    3. Bad Orchestration [1:27]
    4. What a Composer Has to Know and Choose [5:28]
    5. An Orchestral Experiment [3:47]
    6. Families and Choosing Instruments [6:20]
    7. The String Family [7:08]
    8. Brass and Percussion Families [2:58]
    9. The Symphony Orchestra [5:04]
    10. Orchestral Exhibition: Ravel's Bolero [14:39]
    Side #2 -- Disc 2
    1. Development [11:05]
    2. How Does Development Happen? [8:42]
    3. Variation [4:15]
    4. Sequences [3:52]
    5. Imitation & Counterpoint [5:28]
    6. Breaking Down [5:06]
    7. Brahms Symphony No. 2 [2:30]
    8. Augmentation [18:14]
    1. What Is Classical Music? [5:45]
    2. The Real Difference [3:04]
    3. 'Exact' Music [6:55]
    4. Perfect Form and Balance [4:16]
    5. A Tune That Is Elegant & Refined & Fun [8:50]
    6. Amusement and Surprise [2:06]
    7. Haydn Symphony No. 102 [:56]
    8. Rules Versus Emotion? [8:29]
    9. Beethoven & Romanticism [3:45]
    1. What Makes Music Funny? [4:00]
    2. Funny for Musical Reasons [6:50]
    3. Imitating [2:18]
    4. Fast & Funny [4:56]
    5. Satire [7:16]
    6. Puns [6:42]
    7. Parody [4:42]
    8. Burlesque & Nonsense [11:05]
    9. Mickey-Mousing [1:57]
    10. Brahms' Fourth Symphony [9:23]
    Side #3 -- Disc 3
    1. What Is a Concerto? [4:45]
    2. Names of Musical Forms [1:39]
    3. Vivaldi & The Concertino [9:14]
    4. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 [7:07]
    5. Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante [8:53]
    6. Showing Off [2:06]
    7. Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto [7:07]
    8. Modern Concertos & Bela Bartok [18:20]
    1. 4th Symphony, 1st Movement [5:24]
    2. Conductor & Composer [2:29]
    3. So Happy, So Sad [3:22]
    4. The Secret of Mahler [1:01]
    5. 4th Symphony, Last Movement [11:21]
    6. The East & The West [1:30]
    7. The Song of the Earth: Youth [4:32]
    8. Using Voices [1:49]
    9. Folk Songs [4:54]
    10. The Little & The Big [1:38]
    11. Romantic & Modern [14:45]
    1. What Is Folk Music? [3:18]
    2. It Comes From the Way We Speak [2:37]
    3. Different Languages [9:13]
    4. Mexico & Sinfonia India [15:47]
    5. Real Folk Songs [9:43]
    6. Charles Lives - Second Symphony [12:20]
    Side #4 -- Disc 4
    1. Suggestion [4:33]
    2. Impressionistic Painting [2:08]
    3. Realistic Music [1:21]
    4. Impression of the Sea [11:54]
    5. New Sounds [1:36]
    6. Half and Whole Tones [2:31]
    7. New Chords [1:42]
    8. Bitonality [5:07]
    9. Debussy - La Mer [16:02]
    10. Maurice Ravel [8:06]
    1. Happy Birthday [3:38]
    2. Changing Styles [3:47]
    3. Surprises [1:05]
    4. Petrouchka [13:50]
    5. Second Scene [6:57]
    6. Third Scene [6:53]
    7. Fourth Scene [17:36]
    1. The Meat and Potatoes of Music [4:37]
    2. Development, Theme & Repetition [5:50]
    3. Unmelodic [6:36]
    4. Counterpoint [2:37]
    5. Mozart - Symphony in G Minor [11:38]
    6. What Our Ears Expect [2:45]
    7. Hindemith [5:00]
    8. Brahms [13:45]
    Side #5 -- Disc 5
    1. Fernandez - Batuque [6:04]
    2. Rhythm [1:32]
    3. Color [:55]
    4. The Non-Latin Ancestry [17:05]
    5. Revueltas [8:06]
    6. Aaron Copland [9:25]
    7. West Side Story [10:40]
    1. The Last Sound You'd Expect [4:33]
    2. Journey Into Jazz [4:35]
    3. You Don't Know Jazz [3:43]
    4. Playing With People [1:13]
    5. What Do You Feel? [6:01]
    6. Aaron Copland [2:06]
    7. Larry Austin [:2

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