The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein — Season 1, Episode 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis
133 min • 1 season, 6 episodes
Episode synopsis
Lecture 5 picks up at the early twentieth century with an oncoming crisis in Western Music. As these lectures have traced the gradual increase and oversaturation of ambiguity, Bernstein now designates a point in history that took ambiguity too far. Twelve-tone music emerges as one potential solution to the crisis, but Bernstein considers this idiom so ambiguous that it destroys the all-important balance between clarity and ambiguity.
About The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein
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.