Here’s a rarity: Nearly half of the music appreciation specials produced from 1958-72, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic and explaining classical music to a concert hall of crisply dressed kids and their parents, are preserved in this Kultur Video nine-disc DVD set. Brilliant, inspirational, not at all condescending – and a show on the sonata form features a then-new composition by the Beatles. In 1964! – DB