Episode list

Some passages tell stories; excerpts from Ravel, Rossini, Richard Strauss, Beethoven, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Webern.

Bernstein discusses the origins and characteristics of American music. In closing, Aaron Copland conducts parts of his own Third Symphony.

Using the music of Mozart, Stravinsky, Ravel, and others, Bernstein describes the process of writing music to be performed by several instruments.