Over the holiday weekends of Christmas and New Year BBC2 is repeating this ambitious series of six lectures given when Leonard Bernstein was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University and called The Unanswered Question 1: Musical Phonology
Bernstein proposes the existence of a world-wide, inborn musical grammar and shows music developing from pre-history to the present. Including a performance of Mozart's Symphony No 40 in G minor (K 550) played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein
... undoubtedly some kind of television classic ... a superb set of lectures.
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An Amberson Video Production recorded by WGBH, Boston (Tomorrow: Musical Syntax)