In this program, Bernstein introduces his audience to “modern music,” including such a more or less classical composer as Stravinsky to the avant-garde instrumentation of John Cage’s prepared piano and early electronics of Pierre Henry’s musique concrete. Bernstein then goes on to make a case for modern, experimental music, hoping to persuade his audience to “hate it less, or hate it more intelligently, or even grow to like it.”

From The Archive of American Television Presents: "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" from an "Omnibus" Telecast featuring Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein, Guest
The Symphony of the Air, Orchestra
Alistair Cooke, Host
Arnold Sundgaard, Script Concept
Andrew McCullough, Director

Broadcast Live on the CBS Television Network, January 13, 1957.

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