Omnibus · SEASON 5
Introduction to Modern Music
Episode 15 · 1957-01-13
- Talk
Episode overview
The program has three segments: (1) "Introduction to Modern Music" (Leonard Bernstein discusses modern music and composers, including Bartok, Berg, Hindemith, Ives, Prokofiev, Schoenberg and Stravinsky), (2) "Out" (showing of a 1957 UN documentary about the influx of Hungarian refugees into Austria as a result of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution), and (3) "John Hersey Interview" (interview with the writer of segment (2))
Season 5 episodes
1. The American Musical Comedy1956-10-07
2. Androcles and the Lion1956-10-14
3. The Last Day of Manolete1956-10-21
4. My Heart's in the Highlands1956-10-28
5. Let There Be Farce1956-11-04
6. Moliere's School for Wives1956-11-11
7. Plays of the Irish Renaissance1956-11-18
8. The Blue Hotel1956-11-25
9. A Man Without a Country1956-12-02
10. The Fine Art of Murder1956-12-09
11. The Christmas Tie1956-12-16
12. Madeline Visits Omnibus1956-12-23
13. The Art of Choreography1956-12-30
14. Oedipus, the King1957-01-06
15. Introduction to Modern Music1957-01-13
16. Lee at Gettysburg1957-01-20
17. The Big Wheel: the Burlesque Entertainment of Yesterday1957-01-27
18. The Theatre Breaks Loose1957-03-03
19. The Trial of Captain Kidd1957-03-10
20. How the F-100 Got Its Tail1957-03-17
21. The Fall River Legend: the Trial of Lizzie Borden1957-03-24
22. The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach1957-03-31
