"Development is really the main thing in life, just as it is in music," says Leonard Bernstein in the fourth Young People's Concert; "because development means change, growing, blossoming out; and these things are life itself."
"Tanglewood is not a school, in the strict sense. It does not offer courses, degrees, credits," Leonard Bernstein said at the opening exercises in 1951. "Tanglewood is a musical universe..."
Leonard Bernstein explains that composing a piece of music is like choosing the right clothes to wear--only harder.
Hear a unique interview by NPR's Scott Simon with Maestro Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Jamie Bernstein, eldest daughter of Leonard Bernstein. "In a way, [Leonard] Bernstein lived his life as a symphony."
In what was perhaps a predecessor of "Teacher Appreciation" week, Bernstein says to appreciate teachers, using the examples of those who taught him. Watch this priceless clip from Young People's Concert #24.
"What better classroom than an interdisciplinary festival of the highest caliber?"
Explore the characteristics that make American music sound American in the second televised Young People's Concert.
In 1958, a new type of television programming premiered on CBS, with Leonard Bernstein at the helm.
"Leonard Bernstein was the most powerful envoy from the high arts in my lifetime, and arguably in the 20th century," says educator, author, and former broadway actor, Eric Booth.
