Description

On January 18, 1958, the Columbia Broadcasting Corporation aired the first of Leonard Bernstein’s 53 Young People’s Concerts with the New York Philharmonic. So successful were these performance lessons that they ran forover a decade on television. This book brings back into print a classic collection of the best of the best of these Emmy and Peabody Award-winning lectures. A total of 15 lectures are presented here in full. Here is the century’smost unique musician and teacher, explaining beautifully and clearly the joy of music in a way that grasps the attention of all. Every aspect of music is so cleverly presented that everyone, regardless of age, culture, oreducational background, will enjoy and understand it.