Young People´s Concerts Season 3

Episode 04 – The Second Hurricane

Students from the New York City High School of Music and Art perform Aaron Copland's opera The Second Hurricane. Leonard Bernstein conducts and provides narration for the opera, which concerns the fictional plight of students who became stranded during a relief mission to the site of a natural disaster. Notably, this specific episode had been lost at one time but was recently discovered, thus completing the archive

Originally aired on CBS Television Network, April 24, 1960