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Leonard Bernstein and His Young People's Concerts
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2015
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Leonard Bernstein touched millions of lives as composer, conductor, teacher, and activist. He frequently visited homes around the world through the medium of television, particularly through his fifty-three award-winning Young People’s Concerts (1958-1972), which at their height were seen by nearly ten million in over forty countries. Originally designed for young viewers but equally attractive to eager adults, Bernstein’s brilliance as a teacher shined brightly in his televised presentations. And yet, despite the light touch of the “maestro,” the innocence of his audience, and the joyousness of each show’s topic, the turbulence of the times would peek through.
In this first in-depth look at the series, Alicia Kopfstein-Penk’s Leonard Bernstein and His Young People’s Concerts illustrates how the cultural, social, political, and musical upheavals of the long sixties impacted Bernstein’s life and his Young People’s Concerts. Responding to trends in corporate sponsorship, censorship, and arts programming from the Golden Age of Television into the 1970s, the Young People’s Concerts would show the impact of and reflect the social and cultural politics of the Cold War, Vietnam, the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements, and the Counterculture. Bernstein cheerfully bridged classical and popular tastes, juxtaposing the Beatles with Mozart even as he offered personal, televised pleas for peace and unity. At the same time, the concerts reflect Bernstein’s troubled relationship as a professional musician with the dominance of atonality and his quest to nurture American music.
Anyone who enjoys the oeuvre of Leonard Bernstein, has watched his Young People’s Concerts, or is passionate about the history of the long sixties will find in Leonard Bernstein and His Young People’s Concerts a story of all three captured in this monumental study.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8849-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8850-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
300
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Contents No access
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Foreword No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
1: Background No access Pages 1 - 12
2: Decisions No access Pages 13 - 34
3: The Postmodernist No access Pages 35 - 66
4: The Television Pioneer No access Pages 67 - 90
5: The Pacifist No access Pages 91 - 112
6: The Liberal No access Pages 113 - T
7: The Musical Reactionary No access Pages 137 - 168
8: The Advocate for American Music No access Pages 169 - 188
Epilogue No access Pages 189 - 198
Appendix A: Young People’s Concerts’ Program Numbers, Titles, and Dates with Chapter References and Possible Motivations for Topic No access Pages 199 - 202
Appendix B: Alphabetical List of Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts No access Pages 203 - 204
Appendix C: Production and Broadcast Information for Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts No access Pages 205 - 212
Appendix D: Young Performers on Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts No access Pages 213 - 216
Appendix E: Existing Nielsen Ratings for Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts No access Pages 217 - 222
Appendix F: Twentieth-Century Works in Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts No access Pages 223 - 226
Appendix G: American Music in Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts No access Pages 227 - 228
Appendix H: Young People’s Concerts without Bernstein, 1958–1972 No access Pages 229 - 230
Notes No access Pages 231 - 268
Bibliography No access Pages 269 - 278
Index No access Pages 279 - 298
About the Author No access Pages 299 - 300
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