Volume 40, Number 11 · June 10, 1993
Professor Lenny
By Joseph Horowitz
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic beginning August 25 by the Smithsonian Institution via mail order West, Suite 1Y, New York, NY 10023)
written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein, produced by Roger Englander. A series of 25 Sony Classical video cassettes to be released. also available from the Leonard Bernstein Society (25 Central Park
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts
Newly revised and expanded edition, edited by Jack Gottlieb
Anchor Books, 380 pp., $15.00 (paper)
The Infinite Variety of Music
by Leonard Bernstein
Anchor Books, 288 pp., $14.00 (paper)
The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard Society)
by Leonard Bernstein. a series of six video cassettes
Kultur International 1570 (also available from the Leonard Bernstein, $149.00
The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard
by Leonard Bernstein
Harvard University Press, 428 pp., $18.95 (paper)
Virgil Thomson once called Leonard Bernstein 'the ideal explainer of music, both classical and modern.' Bernstein explained more than that. The dozens of programs he wrote and hosted for television—including the twenty-five Young People's Concerts about to become available on video cassette—range effortlessly from Bach to jazz, rock, and Broadway. As TV time capsules, they also explore an incidental topic scarcely apparent when these shows were new: Bernstein himself as the embodiment of America's musical aspirations and disappointments over a period of two decades.
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