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Young People's Concerts

On January 18, 1958, the Columbia Broadcasting Corporation aired the first of Leonard Bernstein's 53 Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic. So successful were these performance lessons that they ran for over a decade on television. This b

Themes
music
Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 380 pages

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