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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.
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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.