TV Series · 2004

20th Century Greats

48 min · Documentary · Ended

Composite

3.9

IMDb

7.7 / 10

34 votes

TMDB

7.0 / 10

1 votes

Local

— / 10

No votes

Synopsis

Howard Goodall examines the work of The Beatles, Cole Porter, Bernard Herrmann and Leonard Bernstein.

Leonard Bernstein

Self (archive footage)

Howard Goodall

Presenter

George Harrison

Self (archive footage)

Bernard Herrmann

Self (archive footage)

John Lennon

Self (archive footage)

Paul McCartney

Self (archive footage)

Cole Porter

Self (archive footage)

Ringo Starr

Self (archive footage)

Season 1 (1 ep)

4. Leonard Bernstein

Dec 18, 2004 · 48 min

Leonard Bernstein was the composer who, more than anyone else in the twentieth century, embodied the trend we now call ‘cross-over.’ A brilliant musician and conductor, he wrote in the ‘classical’ style, but also wrote some of the best known ‘popular’ music of the century, from On The Town to West Side Story. By his own mixing of European classical, pop and Latin styles, Bernstein may have prefigured the next important phase in the music of our own time – the fusion of Western and Asian styles.