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Podcast: The Sunken Treasures
Episode: The Unanswered Question - Prophetic Power of Music
Description: What happens when a musician's toolbox is used to break the rules?
This week we discuss American conductor Leonard Bernstein's lecture at Harvard, 'The Unanswered Question'. Part of a lecture series discussing the intricacies of classical music, the lecture takes a turn. Bernstein talks about musicians breaking rules to achieve things similar to tradition but by different means. He talks of Charles Ives' 'The Unanswered Question' and wonders whether Gustav Mahler's early 20th-century music predicted the oncoming horrors to humanity.
[00:00:00] - [00:01:31] = Intro
[00:01:32] - [00:03:40] = Clair de Lune (fragment)
[00:03:41] - [00:09:11] = Why The Unanswered Question
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