Movie

The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

“Bernstein at Harvard”

★ 9.0(1)19762h 58m

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Director: Humphrey Burton
Release date: 1976-01-11
Runtime: 2h 58m
Language: English
Box office: $2,000
Budget: $1,000
Status: Released
Country: United States of America
Studio: Harvard Productions

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About The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth

The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth is a 1976 movie in the Documentary and Music genres, directed by Humphrey Burton, starring Leonard Bernstein. It has a runtime of 2 hours 58 minutes. It holds an average rating of 9.0/10 from 1 viewers. Below you can see where to watch The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth in Australia — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make these lectures accessible to an audience with limited or no musical experience, while maintaining an intelligent level of discourse: This lecture takes its name from a line in John Keats' poem, "On the Grasshopper and Cricket". Bernstein does not discuss Keats' poem directly in this chapter, but he provides his own definition of the poetry of earth, which is tonality. Tonality is the poetry of earth because of the phonological universals discussed in lecture 1. This lecture discusses predominantly Stravinsky, whom Bernstein considers the poet of earth.

Cast

Leonard Bernstein

Himself

Themes & keywords

classical musicharvard universitylecturelinguisticsmusicleonard bernstein

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The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth has a runtime of 2 hours 58 minutes (178 minutes).

Who stars in The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth?+

The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth stars Leonard Bernstein.

When did The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth come out?+

The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth is a 1976 movie directed by Humphrey Burton.

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The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth is Documentary and Music film.

Who directed The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth?+

The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth was directed by Humphrey Burton.