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The '20s: From Illusion to Disillusion
Item# 2562
77 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-0835-3
DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-7917-9
The wild and crazy '20s... the Jazz Age... the dangerous decade that laid the groundwork for many of the debacles of the remainder of the century. The end of World War I marked the end of the sufferi...
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20th-Century Music in Venice
Item# 4076
52 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-5713-9
This program covers the start of the International Music Festivals and Venice's role as host to Hindemith, Schoenberg, Bartok, and Stravinsky; the rise to fame of Malipiero, Nono, and Maderna; and the...
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Aaron Copland: A Self-Portrait
Item# 989
58 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-89113-000-0
DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-5354-4
Copland himself is the key explicator of his own extraordinary musical career, from piano lessons in Brooklyn and study with Nadia Boulanger, a fling as a wild-eyed modernist, and finally to his preem...
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The Abduction from the Seraglio: Mozart in Turkey
Item# 11865
© 1999
89 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-3661-5
This captivating program combines key scenes from Mozart's singspiel The Abduction from the Seraglio as performed at the spectacular Topkapi Palace with a documentary about the intricate process of re...
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The Advent of Fashion
Item# 720
© 1982
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-89113-818-1
DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-6334-5
Music written for public performance in concert halls and theaters required composers to keep abreast of popular styles. Music of Handel, Couperin, Scarlatti, and Rameau is performed by the English Ba...
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Africa Come Back: The Popular Music of West Africa
Item# 10515
© 1984
61 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-1680-8
DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-6555-4
Just as Africa has impacted the music of the Caribbean and the Americas, so has the New World reciprocated, strongly influencing the music of Africa. This program documents the history of the musical...
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African Wave: South African Music and Its Influences
Item# 7635
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-6504-6
Much of contemporary music has its roots in African music, which has always moved to tribal rhythms and reflected the elan of an entire continent. The African resonance has been most strongly felt in...
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After the Storm: The American Exile of Bela Bartok
Item# 10325
© 1989
76 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-1506-1
DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-6254-6
When Bela Bartok fled to New York in 1940, he carried his love of folk melodies to Columbia University, where he became a research fellow studying Serbo-Croatian music. In this timeless program, frien...
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Amazing Grace: The Story of a Song That Makes a Difference
Item# 4898
© 1990
80 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-0183-5
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-9174-8
The enduring power of a single song across continents and time-and the ironic story of how that song was written by a man who traded in slaves-is examined in this program with Bill Moyers. One of the...
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Amazing Grace: The Story of a Song That Makes a Difference-on DVD
Item# 30863
© 2003
80 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-0-7365-5643-9
Why is "Amazing Grace" the most-performed hymn in the English language? In this DVD, Bill Moyers seeks to understand the enduring power that has carried this song across continents and through time-an...
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