CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Bernstein on the Mystery Behind the Music

Imagine this: you drop onto the sofa on a Sunday afternoon, switch on the TV and see a dapper young man with a baton standing before an orchestra and demonstrating the patterns conductors use to lead music in different meters two, three, four and five beats to the bar. He directs his players in a few examples, bits of Beethovens Ninth and Schuberts Eighth Symphonies, Prokofievs Peter and the Wolf, Waldteufels Skaters Waltz. Then he ups the ante, showing how these simple gestures, with subtle ...

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