Music - The Unanswered Question

The following lectures by Leonard Bernstein suggest in extraordinary clearness and depth, and in common terms, understandble by everyone who adores music, why classical music is so rich and still meaningful today, and what we have lost with the loss of common tonal and rhythmical language pattern in contemporary musical art.

Bernstein talks also about an abstract semiotic level where the poetry of spoken language and music meets. Maybe, this can give some hope for finding new means or even a new ground of musical language beside the wellkown? At least as long as we strive to express what seem to really matter to us.

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