Perhaps best-known for the musical West Side Story, composer Leonard Bernstein was one of the most accomplished and influential musicians of the 20th century. For fifteen years, beginning in 1958, Bernstein attempted to turn the youth of America on to music through a series of televised performances called Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts. This episode finds Bernstein using examples to explain to complex idiosyncrasies that comprise a great orchestra. Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts: The Sound of an Orchestra originally aired on December 14, 1965. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi