February 26, 2008 marked a historic date for music and global culture per se; it witnessed the first performance in history by an American symphony in the People's Republic of Korea - thus unifying two countries long divided by political and ideological differences. That concert appears here in its full and complete version. Selections include: the prelude to act three of Lohengrin by Richard Wagner; the traditional piece "Arirang," "An American in Paris" by George Gershwin and several others. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi...
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2008
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The performance release Kurt Masur: A Life in Music - The Anniversary Gala from Leipzig finds noted European conductor Masur...
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2007
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The Berlin Philharmonic teams up with conductor Sir Simon Rattle and vocalist Dianne Reeves for this unique concert that...
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2003
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Initially released to IMAX theaters at the crescendo of millennial fever and 60 years after the original Fantasia, Fantasia...
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2000
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This concert program features a live performance by Joseph Paratore and Anthony Paratore on two pianos. The concert consists...
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2000
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1999
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Assembled by the same team responsible for "The Hallmark Hall of Fame", this TV adaptation of Neil Simon's hit play Jake's...
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1996
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Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper (Molly Ringwald) and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Jake Lovell...
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1990
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Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy,...
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1990
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This dance-oriented performance release actually features a compilation of solos by two Bolshoi Ballet vets: Mikhail Lavosky...
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1990
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Harvey Fierstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit was adapted for the screen by Fierstein himself. The playwright also...
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1988
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Someone to Watch Over Me, a mystery thriller directed by Ridley Scott is the story of a police officer who falls in love with...
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1987
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Based on the play by Christopher Durang, Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy is a comedy set in New York City but filmed in Paris,...
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1987
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A French music lover befriends a once-great American jazz artist and attempts to save him from self-destruction in this moody...
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1986
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This standard, tongue-in-cheek, gangsters and good guys saga is carried on the star power and screen presence of...
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1984
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This eight part series follows the roles music has played in the development of mankind's culture and societies. ~ Rovi...
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1983
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On the heels of Annie Hall, the Oscar-winning romantic comedy that rocketed Woody Allen to the front ranks of American...
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1979
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Singer and actress Liza Minnelli teamed up with her father, legendary director Vincente Minnelli, to make this evocative...
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1976
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In this installment in the All You Need Is Love documentary series, filmmakers examine the musical phenomenon of Tin Pan...
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1976
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Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier...
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1968
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Dean Martin stars in this once-controversial comedy as Dino, a Las Vegas crooner, alcoholic, and celebrity playboy. Dino...
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1964
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In this collection of clips from The Judy Garland Show, which ran for 26 episodes on CBS television in 1963 and 1964, the...
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1963
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This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley...
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1962
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1959
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This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire,...
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1957
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Gene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving...
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1951
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In this musical set in late 19th-century Boston, a suffragette secretary finds that her political beliefs are standing in the...
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1947
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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1946
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Ida "Don't mess with me" Lupino takes a job as a singer in Robert Alda's seedy Santa Monica nitery. Lupino ignores Alda's...
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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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This second film version of the George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway hit Girl Crazy stars reigning MGM musical prince and...
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1943
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The 1924 George Gershwin stage hit Lady Be Good was brought to the screen by MGM; any resemblance (beyond the Gershwin score)...
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1941
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A longtime admirer of Broadway impresario Flo Ziegfeld, Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn hoped to emulate the success of...
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1938
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The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and...
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1937
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Fred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though...
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1937
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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In the tradition of Fox Studios' Oscar-winning Cavalcade, The World Moves On covers over one hundred years in the lives of...
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1934
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1933
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1932
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1931
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This lavish musical is based on a play by Oscar Hammerstein II and tells the story of a young girl who inadvertently causes a...
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1930
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Intended as Universal Pictures' entry in the "all-star musical" cycle of the early talkie era, King of Jazz is certainly the...
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1930
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