There is nothing so engaging to a kid as another kid. That’s why one of the longest-running themes of Bernstein’s career, including his New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts, was a focus on young performers. Each season, at least one broadcast was dedicated to highlighting up-and-coming musicians and conductors, most […]
Colorado College music students produced mind-bendingly creative videos for a seminar on Leonard Bernstein.
To most of the audience at this New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert in 1967, Leonard Bernstein was their first introduction to the wild, adventurous music of Charles Ives (1874-1954).
Find out what you have in common with Gustav Holst, composer of "The Planets."
Leonard Bernstein devoted two Young People's Concerts to his beloved mentor and friend, composer Aaron Copland.
What is "togetherness" in an orchestra? Listen and watch Leonard Bernstein explain a concerto and more, with performances by violinist John Corigliano and the New York Philharmonic, in this excerpt from the seventh televised Young People's Concerts.
Laugh along with Leonard Bernstein as he describes what makes classical funny in this excerpt of the sixth New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert.
How is composing a fugue like building a Ferris wheel? Leonard Bernstein explains this and more in this classic 1959 Young People's Concert with the New York Philharmonic.
"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."
