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Canadian arts series. This episode, profiling the music of Duke Ellington, includes two pieces (7 mins in total) from Ellington’s original score for Michael Langham’s 1963 staging of Timon of Athens at...
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...
Series sponsored by the Ford Motor Company episodes alternating between variety, music and drama. In this episode hosted by Dave Garroway and showcasing ‘tomorrow’s entertainment stars’, the...
Franco Ferrara conducts the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Italy in Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
George Walton Williams demonstrates how the imagery of Othello allows the reader/audience to observe the way in which Iago ‘poisons’ Othello’s mind.
US variety show. An item features Kaye and Jose Ferrer in a musical revue entitled ‘To be or not to be’ that might have resulted had Shakespeare written Hamlet for television. Ferrer is Hamlet and Kaye...
Fiction short. A version of The Taming of the Shrew.
The play’s theme of ‘poison’ is explored, both in the physical sense of the three poisoning episodes, and in the figurative sense of subtly spreading corruption and evil.
US variety show. This episode parodies Romeo and Juliet featuring feuding Romany families - the Shishkebabs and Baklavas. The piece is performed by the ‘Kinderspiel Light Opera’.
US music series presenting classical music on television. The Kansas City Philharmonic, led by conductor Jorge Messter, plays Tchaikovsky’s fantasy-overture in the Cowtown Ballroom before an audience of...
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