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The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis (1976)
Directed by Humphrey Burton
“Bernstein at Harvard”
Documentary, Music · 2h 13m
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make these lectures accessible to an audience with limited or no musical experience, while maintaining an intelligent level of discourse: 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.
Cast
Leonard Bernstein
Crew
- Director
- Humphrey Burton
Details
- Release date
- 1976-01-11
- Runtime
- 2h 13m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Production
- Harvard Productions
- Budget
- $1,000
- Box office
- $2,000