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Irregularly scheduled series of musical specials featuring Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Bernstein compares the beat in Shakespeare’s verse to rhythms in jazz, Beethoven’s...
Trailer. A promotional film for Franco Zeffirelli’s ROMEO AND JULIET. Shows the director rehearsing a scene with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, and of the ‘Swinging Youth Premiere’ in New York City...
Television sitcom. A spin-off from the soap opera CORONATION STREET, featuring Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe) in the same fussy, pedantic role but now assistant manager of a northern chain store, Dobson and...
Three-part series screening previously unseen television interviews with Bernard Braden given in 1968. In this second episode Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting speak about their roles in Zeffirelli’s ROMEO...
US cultural magazine series hosted by Alistair Cooke. In this episode Leonard Bernstein contends that since music is received directly by the heart and does not need to be processed by the brain first, opera...
Television documentary that follows conductor Leonard Bernstein as he records, over four days, the first complete recording of West Side Story. Filmed in a New York recording studio with a pick-up orchestra,...
Opera. A production by Robert Lepage conducted by Thomas Adès of his version of the Shakespeare play to a libretto by Meredith Oakes, taped live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. With Simon...
Radio broadcast. Live recording of Verdi’s Falstaff from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City. Leonard Warren is Falstaff. Staged by Herbert Graf. Fritz Reiner conducts the Metropolitan Orchestra...
Live broadcast of Verdi’s Otello from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus is conducted by Fritz Stiedry. Mario Del Monaco is Otello and Leonard Warren is...
Radio series, hosted by Paul Lazarus, celebrating the American musical theatre. This programme includes excerpts from a Dramatists Guild symposium with panelists Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur...