The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein
tv show
6 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired January 11, 1976
Overview
The 1973 Norton Lectures by Leonard Bernstein, presented at his alma mater Harvard University, explores all types of music, including: folk music, pop songs, symphonies, tonal and atonal works; all taught by legendary master composer and conductor, Leonard Bernstein.
The Poetry of Earth
Season 1 - Episode 6 - 3h 57m
Air Date
February 15, 1976
Overview
This lecture takes its name from a line in John Keats' poem, "On the Grasshopper and Cricket". Bernstein does not discuss Keats' poem directly in this chapter, but he provides his own definition of the poetry of earth, which is tonality. Tonality is the poetry of earth because of the phonological universals discussed in lecture 1. This lecture discusses predominantly Stravinsky, whom Bernstein considers the poet of earth.