What Is A Concerto?

Duration: 60

Year Published: 1965

Creator: CBS NEWS

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein describes the development of the concerto from the Baroque period to the present. He demonstrates instruments used in various types of concertos. Features the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. (kinescope), Presents Leonard Bernstein in a lecture-demonstration on the concerto as a musical form. Defines a concerto as a symphony which features a separate soloist or group of soloists. Mr. Bernstein, with the New York Philharmonic, plays movements from concertos by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Bartok.

Complete Record: Conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein describes the development of the concerto from the Baroque period to the present. He demonstrates instruments used in various types of concertos. Features the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. (kinescope), Presents Leonard Bernstein in a lecture-demonstration on the concerto as a musical form. Defines a concerto as a symphony which features a separate soloist or group of soloists. Mr. Bernstein, with the New York Philharmonic, plays movements from concertos by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Bartok.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.