Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center, Saarinen also...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.
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Emmy Award winning documentary, directed by Peter Rosen, about the Eighth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1989, featuring interviews...
See moreRubinstein Remembered
This program traces Rubinstein's career and features excerpts from his performances of works by Frederic Chopin, his favorite composer. There are...
See moreGarrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
Americas foremost humorist and commentator, Garrison Keillor, takes his skits and jokes, music and monologues across the country in his traveling...
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Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler
Not since Paganini had there been such a magician on the violin. Jascha Heifetz was the first truly modern virtuoso, a man about whom Itzhak...
See moreThe Golden Age of the Piano
Academician and piano expert David Dubal narrates this absorbing documentary chronicling the instrument's history and featuring some of the 20th...
See moreFirst Person Singular: I.M. Pei
Architect I.M. Pei speaks about his famous works, such as the addition to the Louvre in Paris, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in...
See moreOnce Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
"A delightful documentary about Anderson, in which we get to know the man as well as his music, through interviews with colleagues and family...
See moreLeonard Bernstein: Reflections
Leonard Bernstein discusses his Boston childhood, his musical growth at Harvard and the Curtis Institute and the influence of great masters like...
See moreReflections: Samuel Eliot Morison
The life and work of Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, the official historian of U.S. naval operations in World War II and a Pulitzer...
See moreShadows in Paradise: Hitler's Exiles in Hollywood
To escape Hitler's regime, thousands of intellectuals and radicals fled Europe for the United States in the 1930s; this documentary focuses on the...
See moreI'm a Man
The story of John Barber, a Black man arrested for carrying a spear.
See moreBad Boy of the Art World
Controversial and provocative artist Larry Rivers ( 1923-2002 ) was recently the subject of a Vanity Fair profile, “Crimes of the Art”, and was on...
See moreGordon Getty: There Will Be Music
Can the son of J. Paul Getty, at one time the richest man in the world, be a serious composer?
See moreThe Cliburn: Playing on the Edge
The heat of competition, the shared dreams, the moments of triumph and disappointment. ... Emmy Award-winning director-producer Peter Rosen...
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