V078: The Music of Man
Home Vision MUS 04, VHS (NTSC) color, 2:00:00
A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Production (1987), hosted by Yehudi Menuhin
Written by Yehudi Menuhin and Curtis W. Davis with Charles Weir
Producers: Richard Bocking, John Thomson, Curtis W. Davis
Directors: Richard Bocking, John Thomson
Program 7: The Known and the Unknown (1:00:00)
Program 8: Sound or Unsound (1:00:00)
| Time | Description |
| 00:00 | Credits: Program 7 |
| 01:00 | Footage of WWI, Caruso singing "Over There" |
| 02:00 | Menuhin |
| 02:20 | War footage, contemporary art |
| 03:10 | Menuhin fiddling, "Start all over again", with jazz combo |
| 05:25 | Menuhin, photos of his childhood, reminiscences about Fritz Kreisler, Georges Enesco |
| 10:00 | Rumanian countryside, Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 3 by Enesco (1926) |
| 12:36 | Footage of Louis Armstrong, "Tiger Rag" |
| 15:45 | Footage of George Gershwin playing piano, "I Got Rhythm", "Strike Up the Band" |
| 17:15 | Schoenberg's 5 Pieces for Orchestra, III. (1909), contemporary painting by Kandinsky, Picasso, Braques, and Delaunay |
| 18:30 | Footage of orchestra (Toronto Symphony) playing Schoenberg's work |
| 19:50 | Menuhin explaining 12-tone music |
| 21:10 | Pianist performing Schoenberg's Suite for Piano, op. 25 (1924) |
| 24:30 | Ensemble performing Edgar Varese's Integrale |
| 26:40 | Menuhin discussing 20th-century musical trends |
| 27:40 | Cabaret songs by Kurt Weill, art of the 1920s |
| 28:50 | Footage of the Depression, Busby Berkley films |
| 29:39 | Footage of Leopold Stokowski conducting |
| 31:30 | Photos of Arturo Toscanini, Rossini's "William Tell Overture" |
| 32:15 | Menuhin in Bali, footage of a gamelan lesson, gamelan ensemble and dance |
| 36:15 | Violin masterclass with Menuhin |
| 39:30 | Footage of Benny Goodman's band (1930s), Swing, Big Band |
| 41:12 | Aaron Copland conducting the National SO, interview with him, scenes of America |
| 49:10 | Footage of the Graf Zeppelin, warships, natives of Trinidad, calypso music |
| 51:56 | Menuhin playing the Berg Violin Concerto (1935) |
| 56:27 | Credits |
| 58:12 | End |
| 58:23 | Beginning of Program 8, scenes of junk yards and rocket launch, Bartók Sonata for solo violin, op. 117 |
| 1:00:20 | Bach "Erbarme dich" from St. Matthew Passion |
| 1:01:25 | Footage of a rock concert (the Erasers), an "infantile expression of anti-social perversity"; Menuhin finds punk rock "pathetic and nasty" |
| 1:02:15 | Poetry reading by Opal L. Nations |
| 1:02:45 | Electronic music performance by the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, "music appropriate to the age" |
| 1:04:20 | Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson performing in jazz club |
| 1:07:45 | Photos from WWII, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra singing, performing for troops |
| 1:10:00 | Steel drums in Trinidad played by Mervyn Ray, made from discarded oil barrels |
| 1:11:15 | Elvis |
| 1:12:20 | Beatles performing in Munich |
| 1:13:45 | Menuhin on youth: "confused and gullible" |
| 1:14:45 | Joan Baez, "Blowin' in the wind" |
| 1:16:19 | Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights movement, "We shall overcome" |
| 1:18:30 | Performance of chamber music with Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich |
| 1:19:50 | Martha Graham and Bertram Ross dancing "Night Journey", score by William Schuman |
| 1:21:50 | John Cage, "4'33"" performed in Harvard Square |
| 1:23:00 | Menuhin |
| 1:24:30 | Steve Reich, "process music" |
| 1:26:15 | Chance/aleatory music |
| 1:27:25 | Benjamin Britten, entre'act music from Death in Venice |
| 1:29:30 | Menuhin performing, with French fiddler Jean Carignan, a piece written for them by André Gagnon |
| 1:32:00 | Synthesizer, threat to "hard-working musicians" |
| 1:33:00 | Interview with Glenn Gould, performing and recording Bach and Ravel |
| 1:42:00 | Miyako Harumi, a Japanese pop singer |
| 1:42:45 | MUZAK |
| 1:43:30 | Judy Collins, sentimentality in pop music |
| 1:45:15 | Instrument makers, early music ensembles |
| 1:46:50 | Student gamelan ensemble at UC-Berkeley |
| 1:48:20 | Overtone singing, David Hykes and Harmonics Choir |
| 1:49:45 | Choir in Senegal, Le Choeur Sénégalais, conducted by Julien Jouga |
| 1:51:50 | Film footage of Bela Bartok and his work, Menuhin performing his Sonata for solo violin, op. 117 |
| 1:52:47 | Menuhin |
| 1:54:40 | Credits |
| 1:56:15 | End |