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Leonard Bernstein and His Young People's Concerts (Hardcover)
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Leonard Bernstein and His Young People's Concerts (Hardcover)
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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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