Mozart: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro"
Using Mozart’s lively operatic piece, this program illustrates how composers weave together musical ideas to bring contrast and texture to their music. Abrupt pizzicatos, resounding fanfares, and languid melodies presented as a series of quick edi...
Risk: Ken Burns’ Jazz, Part 8
The social tensions underlying America’s postwar prosperity were reflected in the broken rhythms and dissonant melodies of bebop-and in the troubled life of Charlie Parker. Nicknamed “Bird,” Parker demonstrated ideas and techniques as overwhel...
Indian Classical Music
This program features some of the finest musicians of India: Ali Akbar Khan, Alla Rakha, Amjad Khan, Hariprasad Chaurasia, and Ravi Shankar. Each a supreme virtuoso of his instrument, the artists perform ragas that illustrate the range, scope, and t...
Genres in Music: From Handel to Hip-Hop
Throughout history, musicians and musical works have reflected the fashion, culture, and social attitudes of their times. Music today is more diversified than ever, from the megahits of teen pop stars to the depth and emotionality of gospel choirs t...
Music from the Inside Out
An exploration of the magic and mystery of music through the stories, passions, and artistry of the 105 musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Filmed over a period of five years on three continents, the main character of this film is "Music" itsel...
Up Down & Sideways
Close to the India - Myanmar border is the village of Phek in Nagaland. Around 5000 people live here, almost all of whom cultivate rice for their own consumption. As they work in cooperative groups — preparing the terraced fields, planting sapling...
Music management seminar with Steve Leeds and Brendan Toller
This program begins with the trailer for the film I NEED THAT RECORD and is followed by a brief discussion with Brendan Toller about his film and the death of the independent record store in the United States. Discussion topics also include music p...
Arnold Schoenberg: My Evolution
With Schoenberg’s lecture at UCLA as the narrative track, the musical illustrations he cites, and with photographs, manuscripts, and period footage, this program offers a unique picture of music struggling into the 20th century, of atonality, and ...
Fanny: The Right to Rock
Sometime in the 1960s, in sunny Sacramento, two Filipina-American sisters got together with other teenage girls to play music. Little did they know their garage band would evolve into the legendary rock group Fanny, the first all-women band to issue...
Music management seminar with Steve Leeds and Adam Curry of www.mevio.com
A discussion with Adam Curry who runs www.mevio.com. Topics include his background at MTV and experience with the Internet, podcasting, RSS, his web site, and web site advertising.