1 Season
6 Episode
The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein - Season 1 Episode 5 The Twentieth Century Crisis
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.
- Year: 1976
- Country: United States of America
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- Director: Leonard Bernstein
- Cast: Leonard Bernstein
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