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Great Performances - The Thomashefskys

The Thomashefskys The Thomashefskys
Watch Broadway's Judy Blazer as Bessie Thomashefsky and Shuler Hensley as Boris Thomashefsky re-create early Yiddish Theater. Recorded in April 2011 at the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, The Thomashefskys is written and hosted by Michael Tilson Thomas and stars Blazer and Hensley with Ronit...
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2216468713/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Watch Broadway's Judy Blazer as Bessie Thomashefsky and Shuler Hensley as Boris Thomashefsky re-create early Yiddish Theater. Recorded in April 2011 at the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, The Thomashefskys is written and hosted by Michael Tilson Thomas and stars Blazer and Hensley with Ronit... /episodes/get/1406 /episode/1406 Great Performances: The Thomashefskys /episode-player/1406
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Paul Taylor Dance Company in Paris
Paul Taylor Dance Company in Paris
At an age when most artists? best work is behind them, modern dance pioneer Paul Taylor continues to win acclaim for the vibrancy, relevance and power of his recent dances, as well as his classics.
Air date: 05/04/2013 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2364999327/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false At an age when most artists? best work is behind them, modern dance pioneer Paul Taylor continues to win acclaim for the vibrancy, relevance and power of his recent dances, as well as his classics. /episodes/get/8696 /episode/8696 Great Performances: Paul Taylor Dance Company in Paris /episode-player/8696
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim... Why has the Broadway musical proven to be such fertile territory for Jewish artists of all kinds? The documentary combines interviews with performance footage, including many of the rousing...
Air date: 01/02/2013 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2317965318/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim... Why has the Broadway musical proven to be such fertile territory for Jewish artists of all kinds? The documentary combines interviews with performance footage, including many of the rousing... /episodes/get/6495 /episode/6495 Great Performances: Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy /episode-player/6495
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Now with the film fully restored to the highest technical standard with a remixed soundtrack, it?s time to tell the extraordinary story of Magical Mystery Tour: why it was made, how it was made and the circumstances in which it was made. Magical Mystery Tour Revisited is the story behind the...
Air date: 12/15/2012 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2309390406/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false Now with the film fully restored to the highest technical standard with a remixed soundtrack, it?s time to tell the extraordinary story of Magical Mystery Tour: why it was made, how it was made and the circumstances in which it was made. Magical Mystery Tour Revisited is the story behind the... /episodes/get/6359 /episode/6359 Great Performances: Magical Mystery Tour Revisited /episode-player/6359
Renee Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Renee Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky
America's favorite soprano, Renee Fleming, and Russia's greatest living baritone, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, travel to St. Petersburg--the "Venice of the North"--where they perform great opera scenes in the magnificent palaces of the Czars in the former capital of Imperial Russia. Watch the full episode...
Air date: 09/01/2010 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/1575390364/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false America's favorite soprano, Renee Fleming, and Russia's greatest living baritone, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, travel to St. Petersburg--the "Venice of the North"--where they perform great opera scenes in the magnificent palaces of the Czars in the former capital of Imperial Russia. Watch the full episode... /episodes/get/1400 /episode/1400 Great Performances: Renee Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky /episode-player/1400
A Concert for New York
A Concert for New York
In remembrance and renewal, THIRTEEN'S Great Performances will broadcast A Concert for New York , performed by the New York Philharmonic on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 , led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, taped the previous night at a free concert in Avery Fisher Hall at New York...
Air date: 09/11/2011 Watch
http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2126520498/?player=WGBY-PBS&w=512&h=288&chapterbar=true&autoplay=false In remembrance and renewal, THIRTEEN'S Great Performances will broadcast A Concert for New York , performed by the New York Philharmonic on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 , led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, taped the previous night at a free concert in Avery Fisher Hall at New York... /episodes/get/1383 /episode/1383 Great Performances: A Concert for New York /episode-player/1383