Investigating what separates jazz music from all other forms of music. 

Guest: Leonard Berstein.            

July 18th, 1958- March 26th, 1972

Series of concerts originating from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Beginning in 1962, they were broadcast from Lincoln Center in New York City. Leonard Bernstein conducted fifty three such televised performances until 1972. 

Broadcast from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Unusual instruments, past, present and future.                                                                                                          

July 18th, 1958- March 26th, 1972

Series of concerts originating from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Beginning in 1962, they were broadcast from Lincoln Center in New York City. Leonard Bernstein conducted fifty three such televised performances until 1972. 



                                                                                                                                                              

July 18th, 1958- March 26th, 1972

Series of concerts originating from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Beginning in 1962, they were broadcast from Lincoln Center in New York City. Leonard Bernstein conducted fifty three such televised performances until 1972. 



                                                                                                                                                                           

July 18th, 1958- March 26th, 1972

Series of concerts originating from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Beginning in 1962, they were broadcast from Lincoln Center in New York City. Leonard Bernstein conducted fifty three such televised performances until 1972. 

80th Birthday Tribute To Igor Stravinsky.

This 80th birthday tribute to the world famous composer opens with his "Greeting Prelude" which he wrote for his friend, conductor Pierre Monteux on Monteux's 80th birthday. The theme should sound familiar: its the "Happy Birthday" song.
In examining the panorama of Stravinsky's works, Leonard Bernstein points out the dominant features of each period: the big orchestral ballet scores,the smaller chamber works, the neoclassic forms and most recently, the atonal Stravinsky. 
During the first of these periods, Stravinsky wrote one of his best-known works, the ballet "Petrouchka," which he later arranged for the concert hall. Maestro Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in a performance of the work, after first playing the themes of the important characters and telling the story of the forlorn puppet.
Roger Englander produced and directed this one-hour taped program.





                                                                                                                                                                           

July 18th, 1958- March 26th, 1972

Series of concerts originating from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Beginning in 1962, they were broadcast from Lincoln Center in New York City. Leonard Bernstein conducted fifty three such televised performances until 1972. 

Young Performers #3 Concert. 

                                                                                                                                                 

This was the first televised concert from Lincoln Center in New York City. Conducted by Abraham Kaplan and Hugh Ross.  

Host: Alistair Cooke.             

July 18th, 1958- March 26th, 1972

Series of concerts originating from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Beginning in 1962, they were broadcast from Lincoln Center in New York City. Leonard Bernstein conducted fifty-three such televised performances until 1972.                                                                                                          

July 18th, 1958- March 26th, 1972

Series of concerts originating from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Beginning in 1962, they were broadcast from Lincoln Center in New York City. Leonard Bernstein conducted fifty three such televised performances until 1972. 

"The Sound of a Hall" is the theme.  

Dupe Of Number 323.                                                                                                                                              

July 18th, 1958- March 26th, 1972

Series of concerts originating from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Beginning in 1962, they were broadcast from Lincoln Center in New York City. Leonard Bernstein conducted fifty three such televised performances until 1972. 

"What is a Melody" is the theme.                                                                                                          

October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992. Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970's, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle, and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.
  
  

A Special telecast tonight for the motion picture premiere on Broadway at the Rivoli theater of "CLEOPATRA" with  Bert Parks live at the theater interviewing celebrities in the lobby as they enter the theater with cut-aways to Johnny Carson in Studio 6B, who interacts with those being interviewed.   

NOTE: There is much humor happening during this remote pick-up as celebrities get out of their cars at the curb and  they are stopped for photographs by some 500 photographers at the premiere. Local TV Station WPIX Channel 11 in New York City has first opportunities to interview celebrities on the outside, delaying Bert to do his interviews in the lobby. At times Bert frantically calls out to them and there is much humor exchanged between Parks and Johnny Carson who watches, and comments.

After the remote interviews Roddy McDowall joins Johnny in the NBC Tonight Show studio and discuses photographs he took on the set of CLOEPATRA, including those of Elizabeth Taylor getting made up for her role.   

NOTE: At one point Johnny Carson, breaking up with laughter says: "I want a copy of this show." 
Ironically, this broadcast  was wiped (erased) and is one of the thousands of "lost" TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts never saved/archived during the first ten years of  broadcasting.       

One of the rare TV Audio Air Checks archived  by ARCHIVAL TELEVISION AUDIO, INC. originally recorded off the air when broadcast, June 12, 1963.                                                                                

July 18th, 1958- March 26th, 1972

Series of concerts originating from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Beginning in 1962, they were broadcast from Lincoln Center in New York City. Leonard Bernstein conducted fifty three such televised performances until 1972. 

"A Tribute To Teachers" is the theme.                                                                                           

Festival of lively arts for young people. Leonard Bernstein conducter.            

July 18th, 1958- March 26th, 1972

Series of concerts originating from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Beginning in 1962, they were broadcast from Lincoln Center in New York City. Leonard Bernstein conducted fifty three such televised performances until 1972. 

The young performers number 8 concert is performed.                                                                               

Alternate title: NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 125TH ANNIVERSARY.

A salute to America's oldest orchestra, which began on December 7, 1842, with reflections by Leonard Bernstein, Amyas Ames, Aaron Copeland, Marcia Davenport, Marya Mannes, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Carlos Moseley, Richard Rodgers and Leopold Stokowski. 

The Philharmonic's music, composers, conductors, various locations and several anecdotes that have accumulated from the past century are highlighted. 

Written and Narrated by Jim Fassett.                         

Author George Plimpton performs with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Invited by Maestra Leonard Bernstein,  Plimpton joins the orchestra for a two-week tour witch is recorded every step of the way. 

George Plimpton finds out how his colleagues chose their instruments, learns of the joys and frustrations and tensions they experience and gathers anecdotes about conductors they have worked under. 

NOTE: 
Another venture for George Plimpton reporting his experiences in the world of processionals and artists such as when he pitched to Willie Mays and quarterbacked for the Detroit Lions. 

His latest venture, performing with the New York Philharmonic, was a trial he states that was excruciating as getting whacked by legendary boxing champ, Archie Moore. 



                                    

Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic at London's Royal Albert Hall. Taped in 1971. In an 18-minute segment filmed in New York, violinist John Corigliano, and composers Aaron Copland and Virgil Thompson discuss their friendships with Bernstein.

Debut: The first three of six originally aired concerts featuring Leonard Bernstein with some of the world's top orchestras. Conductor Leonard Bernstein delivers a series of six lectures on music theory. The talks, originally given at Harvard in 1973, are punctuated with performances by Bernstein, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic. In the first program, the maestro examines the origins and development of musical sound, and discusses various scale systems.

The second of six originally aired concerts featuring Leonard Bernstein with some of the world's top orchestras. Models from the rules of grammar are used by conductor Leonard Bernstein to explain the structure of music. Comparing melodies to nouns, chords to adjectives and rhythm to verbs, he demonstrates, with the aid of excerpts from Wagner, how a simple melody can be transformed into a complex musical statement.
[An animated film based on Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," as performed by Bernstein and the Boston Symphony, follows the lecture.]             

The third of six originally aired concerts featuring Leonard Bernstein with some of the world's top orchestras. The Boston Symphony performs Beethoven's Sixth Symphony ("Pastoral") to illustrate the lecture topic "Musical Semantics." Leonard Bernstein is the conductor-lecturer.                          

A concert of American music. This program is a repeat. Leonard Bernstein leads the New York Philharmonic in his own Overture to "Candide," and serves as pianist and conductor for George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." The program also includes "Gershwin's "An American in Paris."

Special: A 60th-birthday party for Leonard Bernstein - a versatile musician who set out "to do at least one of everything in the field of music."

Bernstein has composed "The Age of Anxiety" (a symphony), "West Side Story" and "Candide" (theater music), "Mass" (an oratorio), "Songfest" (a song cycle) and "On the Waterfront" (a film score) - all of which are excerpted in tonight's live concert.

Hosts: William Schuman, Lauren Bacall and Lillian Hellman.

Debut: This series of six weekly concerts, featuring Leonard Bernstein with some of the world's top orchestras, opens tonight with a mix of Broadway and Beethoven. 

The Maestro leads the New York Philharmonic in his own Overture to the 1956 musical "Candide." The performance of this sparkling and melodic work was taped at London's Royal Albert Hall.

In the hour's major and concluding segment, Bernstein returns as conductor and soloist for a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major (Opus 15) work reminiscent of the Classical concert of Haydn and Mozart, published in 1801. The piece was written in Vienna, and is performed here, appropriately, in the City of Musikvereinssaal by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.