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.

Genre:

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

6

Cast:

Leonard Bernstein

Quality:

HD

Duration:

133 min

First Air:

1976

Rating:

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