New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts — Season 1, Episode 3: What is Orchestration?
30 min • 1 season, 53 episodes
Episode synopsis
After brief introductory remarks, Bernstein conducts the finale of Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol and then explains what a composer must know in order to orchestrate music successfully. He compares the flute to the trumpet, and the clarinet to the viola, with examples from Debussy and Gershwin. After asking the audience to sing two notes in a variety of ways, he contrasts the families of instruments that compose an orchestra, using excerpts from Prokofiev, Hindemith, Mozart and others to illustrate, and ends with Ravel's Bolero.
About New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts
From 1958 through 1973, renowned conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra thrilled audiences with wonderful concert experiences presented in a sparkling music-with-commentary format: the Young People's Concerts.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1What Does Music Mean?
- E2What is American Music?
- E4What Makes Music Symphonic?
- E5What is Classical Music?
- E6Humor in Music
- E7What is a Concerto?
- E8Who is Gustav Mahler?
- E9Young Performers No. 1
- E10Unusual Instruments of Present, Past, and Future
- E11The Second Hurricane
- E12Overtures and Preludes
- E13Aaron Copland Birthday Party