Young People’s Concert: “What Does Music Mean?“ / Bernstein · New York Philharmonic

Young People’s Concert: “What Does Music Mean?“ with the New York Philharmonic Written and conducted by Leonard Bernstein Introduction by Whoopi Goldberg Leonard Bernstein told the television audience at the start of the first Young People’s Concert: “No matter what stories people tell you about what music means, forget them. Stories are not what music means. Music is never about things. Music just is. It’s a lot of beautiful notes and sounds put together so well that we get pleasure out of hearing them. So when we ask, ’What does it mean; what does this piece of music mean?’ we’re asking a hard question. Let’s do our best to answer it.“ During the course of this first program, the New York Philharmonic performs portions of Rossini’s “William Tell“ Overture, Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, and Ravel’s La Valse. Original CBS Television Network Broadcast Date: 18 January 1958 Produced by Roger Englander Directed by Ch