Poster of Cast and Crew in New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts - What is Orchestration? (Season 1 - Episode 3) - What is Orchestration?

New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts - Season 1 - What is Orchestration? (Episode 3)

Plot: After brief introductory remarks, Bernstein conducts the finale of Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol and then explains what a composer must know in order to orchestrate music successfully. He compares the flute to the trumpet, and the clarinet to the viola, with examples from Debussy and Gershwin
Episode Aired On:
Saturday, March 8 1958
67 years ago