First of all Leonard Bernstein told the television audience at the start of the first Young People's Concert: "No matter what stories people tell you about what music means, forget them. Stories are not what music means. Music is never about things. Music just is. It's a lot of beautiful notes and sounds put together so well that we get pleasure out of hearing them. So when we ask, 'What does it mean; what does this piece of music mean?' we're asking a hard question. Let's do our best to answer it." During the course of this first program, the New York Philharmonic performs portions of Rossini's "William Tell" Overture, Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, and Ravel's La Valse
It also tells us that when different tones and rhythms come together in music, it becomes pleasant to the ear and gives meaning to some things.It also shows that we can derive different musical meanings from similar rhythms and tones.
We can see something similar in architecture studios as in music. For example, like we are doing in the studio right now. We create new models and new designs from model materials used in the past, or we can create different shapes with the same pencil and the same ruler.