BERNSTEIN at HARVARD The Norton Lectures 1973 COMPLETE SET Vols 1-6, 17 LPs Box

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Columbia "Masterworks" Records MX 33014 thru MX 33032. (U.S. pressing, stereo, 1973) Exterior Box is Ex, with rubbing of the white "1 thru 6" front cover. Rubbing/scuffed upper left edge. Individual boxes are for the most part near mint, with a few inconsequential rubbed spots here and there. Vinyl condition: Volume 6, side 6 has a small (nap) scratch close to the dead, trail-off vinyl. Volume 6, side 5 has an (nap) scuff. Otherwise, the other 15 discs are un-played looking near mint. To go into a lot of detail on the material would be a monumental task. With the NY PO on 5 of the 6 boxes. With the Boston SO on box 6. All poly lined inner sleeves are near mint. 
Description: Rare 1973 17LP Box Set spread across six volumes in individual boxes encased in an outer box. The epic 13 hour lecture series by Leonard Bernstein liberally illustrated with musical examples he had drawn; analogies between music and linguistics, He had traced the increasing complexity of harmonic language from Bach and Mozart to Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Now, tying up the strands of his argument, he offered what in retrospect seems a prescient prediction. "I believe that a great new era of eclecticism is at hand, eclecticism in the highest sense," Bernstein said. "And I believe it has been made possible by the rediscovery - the reacceptance - of tonality . .That universal Earth out of which such diversity can spring. No matter how serial or stochastic, or otherwise intellectualized music may be, it can always qualify as poetry, as long as it is rooted in Earth." 
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