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Jot Let LEONARD BERNSTEIN open the door to the wonderful world of music for your family An extraordinary new book with 5 long-playing 7" records will bring the magic of his famous Young People's Concerts into your home Starting this fall you can give your children the gift of living with great music of having their taste and under standing guided and nurtured by a great musician: Leonard Bernstein. Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts on television are among the phenomena of our age. Millions of us have wanted to relive them to hear again the great music and the flashing in sights that have transformed our old habit of "lazy listening" into a richly ac tive adventure in the joy of music. In permanent form at fast Now at last, the greatest of these cele brated concerts have been put in perma nent form to be relived, re-read, re played, returned to over the years. Thi Reservation Certificate Save You I2.5S To your bookseller, or Simon and Schuster, Publishers, Dept. D 630 Fifth Atenue, Mew York 20, N. . As soon as il comes off press, please send me, for Free Ex amination first edition set(s) of Leonard Bernstein's Younc People's Concerts For Reading and Listening. It after enjoying it with my family for three weeks I am not completely delighted, I may return the sells) and owe nothing. Otherwise, you will bill me at the special price of only $9.95 per set (plus postage). Name.... Address.. (please psint) Gty Zone.... Stale Check here il mrlovna $9.5 with this eertifirile. Then we will par postage. Sir.e return pririleae applies, of course. They will be published, in the fall of this year, in the form of a unique musical treasure chest: records and a book that together encompass the heart of this ex traordinary musical education. About the contents The book, beautifully illustrated with over SO color pictures and 100 musical examples and diagrams, contains Mr. Bernstein's incomparable commentaries, rewritten for reading. The five lonc-plXyinc 7" records are performed by major orchestras, chiefly the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein's direction and pro duced by Columbia Records. They en able you to listen, whenever you wish, to the great music (from Bach and Haydn to the modern American composers, Cop land and Ives) that illustrate the major points made in the book. Never before has such a magical open sesame to musical understanding been made available to the family, Mr. Bernstein's narrative is alive with his exuberant joy in music, his genius for making us understand. He ranges over the whole world of music. He talks of Bee thoven and of folk songs. He shows how Bach constructs a fugue, following "instructions" as pre cise as those that come with a child's Erector Set then lets you hear an ex ample, from the fourth Brandenburg Concerto, played by the Philharmonic. He shows how a symphonic work de velops and grows from its first note to its finale. He explains orchestration with a score-it-yourself experiment for the young reader and a Ravel recording to demon strate the special effects of the various instruments. He explains the techniques of composi tion that produce the shimmering "col ors" of Debussy's La Met and plays it for you. He tells and illustrates with records what makes music classical, what makes it romantic, what makes it American, or French, or Italian; what makes it funny. And one of the special de lights in store for you is the example he gives, on a record, from a great symphony that makes you laugh: Prokofiefl's "Clas sical" Symphony. He invites us to experiment with the "meaning of music" through a recording of Moussorgsky. He explains counter point in terms of "Three Blind Mice." He leads us closer to the grandeur of Beethoven and Brahms. He opens innumerable doors to the world of music. Whoever reads the book and listens to the records be it a child or a highly educated adult becomes a citizen of that world. Special Money-Saving Opportunity The publishers are sparing no effort to make this musical treasure-chest as entrancing to look at as it is to read and hear. The 7" vinyl LP recordings, the book with its color pictures and musical examples all in a handsome case will be a delight to own and give. Enormous advance interest enables us to plan an unusually large printing which will so radically bring down the cost that we can offer the complete boxed set for only $12.50. But you can save even more if you reserve your set now. In return for helping us build up the size of this first printing by entering your reservation now, you will receive the complete get at a special price of only 89.95 a saving of $2.55 on the regular retail price. How to reserve your set The Reservation Certificate on this page entitles you to reserve first-edition sets for your family or as gifts, at the special price of only $9.95. Sand No Monoy, As soon as the set is off press, you will receive your copy (or copies) for three weeks' Free Examination. If you are not absolutely delighted, return it to us and owe nothing. Otherwise we shall bill you at the special price. Mail coupon to your bookseller, or: Simon and Schuster, Publishers, Dept.D, 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y.
