What Does Music Means?
Leonard Bernstein's show called Young People's Concerts was truly incredible. The question of what music means may indeed be a question that most of us have not thought about before. What does music tell us? More precisely, can music really tell anything? Could it be that we add this meaning? As Leonard said, can music actually be just about notes?
We are the ones who put music into a mold by the way we use it or the way it makes us feel. The answer to the question of what music is cannot be defined in a sentence or a story. Music is a form of expression. Emotions, or memories. But it can't do it alone. It needs its artist and its audience. From that point of view I think the reason why we can't define music in a single way, is not because it's just a note, but because it contains all the ideas that have been put forward. I think that's why Leonard wanted this concert to be televised. Not only to the people in the concert hall but also to millions of people to make them think about this question that they hadn't thought about. He's actually leaving the show open-ended. He leaves it up to us to make sense of the last song they play. So the purpose of the show may be to find our own answers rather than to find a single answer.
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