Leonard Bernstein – At Harvard (24/44 FLAC)

Number of Discs: 13
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Sony
Catalogue: 19075850472
Release: 2018
Size: 4.74 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover

CD 01
Vol. I – Musical Phonology
01. First of All
02. Perhaps the Principal Thing
03. Let Me Start
04. This is Not Just a Sentimental Anecdote
05. From this Time
06. But How do we Investigate
07. Now You Can See
08. Universality is a Big Word
09. Other Linguists
10. I Began by Imagining Myself
11. Well, Then I Thought
12. Let’s Make a Simple Analogy
13. Maybe Even a Divine One
14. But Where do these Notes Come from?
15. This Acoustical Phenomenon
16. All These Upper Notes
17. The First Overtone
18. But More of that Later
19. But Let’s Not Make the Mistake
20. And that’s how the Tempered Clavichord
21. Now this is a Substantive Universal

CD 02
Vol. I – Musical Phonology
01. But Let’s be Careful
02. And there is Always that Blue Note
03. But Even these Twelve Tones
04. I Trust You Realize
05. And Again Comes a Great Leap
06. Now this Means
07. This Is Not to Say that There Were No Drastic Changes
08. But Meanwhile we are Still in the Golden Age
09. So, we’re in the Midst of a Chromatic Adventure
10. And All by Those Progressions
11. Now, I Must Point Out
12. Do you Realize

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
13. I. Allegro molto
14. II. Andante
15. III. Menuetto, Allegretto
16. IV. Finale. Allegro assai

CD 03
Vol. II – Musical Syntax
01. Every Once in a While
02. Last Week
03. Amen, says Noam Chomsky
04. I Suppose What Chomsky is Really After
05. So, Let’s Pull Up Our Socks
06. All Right, Let’s Try Another One
07. Why Am I Taking Your Time
08. Well Then
09. I Think it Follows
10. But First, What are These Principles
11. Tranformational Grammar
12. But Now Just Think of that Sentence
13. Since this is not a Linguistics Class
14. Take the Passive Transformation
15. Well, it hasn’t Brought us There
16. Good – Now Just as Three Notes are Linked Together
17. Now let’s Go Back
18. Now We Are Ready
19. Now I Wanna Take You
20. Well, Transformation, Deletion, Embedding, Pronominalization
21. I Am Sure I Don’t Have to Trouble
22. Here I Go
23. I Have Asked Myself
24. I Became so Fascinated

CD 04
Vol. II – Musical Syntax
01. Let’s Take one Such Utterance
02. Now Imagine
03. Now Let’s See
04. Mozart’s G Minor Symphony
05. Now Our Job is
06. That Introductory Accompaniment
07. What Does this Three-Note Design Mean
08. The Reason I Pick Symmetry
09. Now From Here On
10. And Once Again, We Are Back
11. By Far the Chief Transformational Principle
12. You See, One of the Great Failings
13. Most People Hearing Mozart’s Opening
14. So What Your Ask
15. And if You are Still not Convinced
16. These Ambiguities
17. For Instance, in this Same First Movement
18. So All these Syntactic Transformations of the Same Material
19. He Talks About this Sonnet
20. Because Now it’s Time
21. But Now Let’s Listen to
22. Listen to the Whole Exposition
23. Development Coming Up
24. The Circle of Fifths Again
25. And That Was all One Single Sentence

CD 05
Vol. III – Musical Semantics
01. The Other Day
02. The First Would Show Us One Meaning
03. Think of this Famous Passage
04. A Linguist Would Say
05. Well, I Replied, Chomsky Would Say
06. Of Course, That Last Metaphorical Leap
07. Terrific, Said My Blonde Inquisitor
08. In Fact, When You Think of the Number
09. All Right, First Let’s Look Briefly
10. Playing, That’s the Word
11. But Does This Stravinskian Game Concept
12. There Are Three Specific Ways
13. Now, Having Defined My Usages of Metaphor
14. And Here We Are in Trouble
15. Are We Feeling What Beethoven Supposedly Felt
16. We Will Never Know
17. Now, If We Accept This General Idea
18. In Our Last Lecture
19. We All Recognize Antithesis
20. It Can And It Does
21. And Again, as in the Poem
22. In Fact, it Has Been Authoritatively Suggested
23. We Can Expand the Idea
24. What Do You Suppose
25. What’ Seriously Striking
26. So Why the Pastorale on this Lecture
27. Let’s Begin at the Beginning
28. But What of the More Obvious Melodic Material
29. But to Develop How
30. Now We Have an Insight
31. But Wait
32. But Why Were Just Those Two Notes Added

CD 06
Vol. III – Musical Semantics
01. The Metaphor Arises
02. But in the Ensuing Four Bars
03. But That’s Not the Main Event
04. Well, That’s the Beginning
05. That’s One of the Questions
06. This Interference of the Two Frequencies
07. But What Are We to Say
08. It Is To Be Found
09. Now That’s One Way of Looking
10. At This Point
11. Even if You Can Succeed

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastoral”
12. I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande. Allegro ma non troppo
13. II. Scene am Bach. Andante molto moto
14. III. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute. Allegro
15. IV. Gewitter. Sturm. Allegro
16. V. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm. Allegretto

CD 07
Vol. IV – The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
01. When I First Wrote Down the Title
02. Part of the Danger
03. The Idea of Ambiguity
04. Similarly, in Our Second Lecture
05. Then What’s the Magic Secret
06. Enough of Ambiguity
07. The Irony of All This
08. But, Mind You
09. Where Music Was Concerned
10. Only Think Of
11. And Chopin Well We Can’t Ignore Chopin
12. And Then, in The Same Little Mazurka
13. Foolish Questions
14. Let Me Try to Read You
15. Listen To This
16. They Began to Intermingle
17. The Pivotal Point
18. So There Is a Dramatic Change
19. So it is After All Not So Surprising
20. Now If You Noticed
21. You See, the Music Is Trying Hard
22. So That Instant in Musical Time
23. Now Romeo Is All Stirred Up

Berlioz: Roméo and Juliet, A Dramatic Symphony, Op. 17
24. 1. Roméo Seul: Tristesse – Bruits de Concerts et de Bal – Grand Fête chez Capulet: Andante malinconico e sostenuto
25. Allegro – Larghetto espressivo – (Instrumental)
26. Allegro – (Instrumental)
27. Réunion des duex Themes, du Larghetto et de l’Allegro (Instrumental)

Vol. IV – The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
28. What a Piece
29. Quite Unconsciously Borrowed
30. My Purpose In All This
31. Is It, Says Wagner

CD 08
Vol. IV – The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
01. Every Diminished Seventh Chord
02. Now the Remarkable Thing Is
03. And This Is What Gives Tristan
04. Prelude and Love-Death (From “Tristan and Isolde”)
05. That May be the Slowest Performance
06. But Ultimately
07. Poetry Has Begun to Show
08. And When Debussy
09. It’s Lovely, This Dreaming
10. For Example, Do You Remember
11. In Fact, the Ending of this Piece
12. Let Me Show You Briefly
13. This New Episode that Proceeds
14. For Instance, Hardly Have We Had Time
15. Because the Scale
16. It’s Almost Exactly What Happens
17. Literally Translated
18. But Notice, Too, that the Example
19. Both Works Have Definitive Beginnings
20. Listen As I Play

21. Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, L. 86

Vol. IV – The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
22. Some Crazy Modern Music

CD 09
Vol. V – The Twentieth Century Crisis
01. Our Lecture Tonight
02. Rhapsodie espagnole, M. 54: IV. Feria
03. What a Way to Enter the Twentieth Century
04. But 1908, if the Truth to be Told
05. These Troubling Presentiments
06. So, now in 1908
07. This Is Atonality
08. A Charming Idea
09. The Unanswered Question
10. I that Luminous Final Triad
11. I Have Recently Been Reading
12. We Have Already Referred to Some of Those
13. In Any Case
14. But For All These Reasons
15. Son of Tristan
16. Now You Look at Those First Two Bars
17. Of Course, There Are Lots
18. It’s as Though a New Covenant
19. Trouble is, That the New Musical Rules
20. The Kind of Tonal Feeling
21. Of Course, There Are Those Who Say
22. It Seems Somehow Inevitable
23. Is There Possibly the Beginning
24. And What About Beethoven’s Nineth
25. These Are Some of the Problems

CD 10
Vol. V – The Twentieth Century Crisis
01. Now Let’s Jump Ahead
02. Let’s Put it Another Way
03. First of All, Berg Chose a Tone Row
04. So, All in All
05. Berg: Violin Concerto (Excerpt)
06. Fantastic
07. It Comes at a Point

Berg: Violin Concerto:
08. II. Allegro, ma sempre rubato

09. If This Particularly Demanding Lecture
10. If You Really Have Been Thinking
11. But While Restudying this Work
12. The Twentieth Century
13. What Do You Do If You Know All This
14. It’s Very Strange, How the Pieces
15. What Exactly Was This News
16. We Emerge From a Cinema
17. As You Listen to This Finale
18. This is Mahler

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Major:
19. IV. Adagio. Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend

CD 11
Vol. VI – The Poetry of Earth
01. I Know What Your Are Thinking
02. What About This
03. I Am Plaguing You With this Question
04. Of Course What he is Really Talking About
05. But It Was Precisely
06. Now I Have Just Used Two Words
07. In Fact, It Was Satie, Picasso, and Cocteau
08. But Our Scene
09. Even in the Most
10. For Our Purposes
11. Musicologists Are Always Pointing
12. But Bitonality Does Not Only Serve
13. Of Course, Polytonality Can And Does
14. Now What’s Going On
15. And While You Are in That Record Shop
16. Of Course, These Asymmetries
17. Brutal It May Be
18. Now, Remember
19. These Are Two Sets
20. Just Cast An Eye
21. Now That Page of Music
22. But the Most Striking Semantic Effect
23. This New Aesthetic Relaxation
24. Even Some Germans
25. You Can See How the Transformation
26. Chomsky Himself Gives a Classic Example
27. Very Important, the Ironic Element
28. So, It Would Seem
29. But This Neoclassic Approach
30. I Think This Is Again a Moment
31. It’s the Essence
32. If This Poem Were Rewritten

CD 12
Vol. VI – The Poetry of Earth
01. Why Have I Digressed
02. Now Can You Understand
03. Untermeyer Called This
04. Of Course, With the Waste Land
05. But the Thing of It All Is
06. We Are Going to Hear
07. One Has Only Learnt to Get
08. Now I propose Only Because
09. This Union Is Possible Only Because
10. But What Has All This to Do With Stravinsky
11. And This Is the Essence
12. Look: Here Is a Joke
13. Chilling, Shattering, Neoclassic
14. Stravinsky’s Own Aesthetic Pronouncements
15. But Of Course He Was Forced
16. And Now We Are Finally Ready
17. And Then Mozart Appears
18. But This Eclecticism Knows No Bounds
19. Now All This I Had Planned to Tell You
20. You Think That’s Funny
21. How About That
22. Then Came the Answer
23. But Why This Particular Misalliance
24. My Words Are Poor

CD 13
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
01. Prologue: “Your Are About to Hear a Latin Version of Oedipus the King
02. Act I: “Caedit nos pestis”
03. Act I: “Liberi vos liberabo”
04. Act I: “This is Creon, Brother-In-Law of Oedipus
05. Act I: “Respondit Deus”
06. Act I:” Oedipus Questions the Fountain of Truth
07. Act I: “Dicere non possum”
08. Act I: “Gloria!”
09. Act II: The Dispute of the Princess Attracts the Attention of Jocasta
10. Act II: “Nonn’erubescite, reges”
11. Act II: “Ne Probentur Oracula”
12. Act II: “Ego senem cecici”
13. Act II: The Witness to the Murder Comes Out of the Shadow
14. Act II “Adest omniscius pastor”
15. Act II: “Nonne monstru rescituri”
16. Act II: And Now You Are Going to Hear That Famous Monolog
17. Act II: “Divum locastae caput mortuum!”
18. Act II: “Ecce! Regem Oedipoda”
19. Va-le-di-co
20. During that Decade
21. It Was At This Point That I Wrote
22. What Interests Me About It
23. Is it Possible
24. It’s As Tough in the Period
25. And I Believe

“Everything I do is in one way or another teaching,” Leonard Bernstein (Harvard class of 1939) once told an interviewer. In 1971, he was invited by his alma mater to become the university’s Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the next academic year. The prestigious appointment – previously awarded to Stravinsky, Hindemith and Copland as well as to writers including T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost and e.e. cummings – required him to deliver a series of six public lectures. The lectures were each given twice, first to the audience in Harvard Square, and afterwards before a small group of listeners at Boston’s WGBH-TV, for broadcast by PBS in the US and by the BBC in the UK. Harvard University Press also published them as a book, but Bernstein insisted that they “were written, not to be read, but listened to.” Originally released by Columbia Masterworks in 6 LP sets in 1974, this 13 CD reissue on the 100th anniversary of his birth would surely have delighted America’s foremost teacher of music.

Leonard Bernstein at Harvard, The Norton Lectures 1973: “The Unanswered Question” in six volumes on 13 CDs
DISC 1-2: Volume 1 M2X 33014 “Musical Phonology”
DISC 3-4: Volume 2 M2X 33017 “Musical Syntax”
DISC 5-6: Volume 3 M3X 33020 “Musical Semantics”
DISC 7-8: Volume 4 M3X 33024 “The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity”
DISC 9-10: Volume 5 M3X 33028 “The Twentieth Century Crisis”
DISC 11-13: Volume 6 M4X 33032 “The Poetry of Earth”