Learning on ScreenMuch Ado About Music
- Synopsis
- Musical series featuring classical and Broadway music hosted by Frank Baxter. This episode focuses on dramatic and musical interpretations of Shakespeare’s work. Joan Sutherland makes her television debut singing the ‘Willow Song’ from Verdi’s Otello. Patrice Munsel and Alfred Drake sing songs from the Rodgers and Hart musical The Boys From Syracuse. Jacques D’Amboise and Violette Verdy dance Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Berlioz’s Romeo et Juliette. The programme concludes with John Gielgud reciting passages from Hamlet (II,ii), the sonnet ‘Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?', Lorenzo’s lines to Jessica from the final act of The Merchant of Venice and Prospero’s speech from the end of The Tempest.
- Series
- Bell Telephone Hour, The
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Television
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Transmission details
- 17 Mar 1961 at 21:00 (Channel: NBC)
- Duration
- 59 mins
Credits
- Director
- Richard Dunlap
- Producer
- Burt Shevelove
- Writer
- Lorentz Hart; Richard Dunlap
- Music
- Felix Mendelssohn; Giuseppe Verdi; Hector Berlioz; Richard Rodgers
- Choreographer
- Donald Saddler
- Contributor
- Frank C. Baxter
- Cast
Joan Sutherland Desdemona Alfred Drake Jacques d’Amboise John Gielgud Patrice Munsel Violette Verdy
Additional Details
- Production type
- Other
- Plays
- Comedy of Errors, The; Hamlet; Midsummer Night’s Dream, A; Othello; Romeo and Juliet; Tempest, The
- Subjects
- Music
- Keywords
- dance; Music; musicals; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Production Company
Archive
- Name
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division
- Web
- http://catalog.loc.gov/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (20) 707-8572
- Fax
- (20) 707-237’1
- Address
- Motion Picture & Television Reading Room
James Madison Building, LM 336
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C.
20540-4690
United States
- Name
Paley Center for Media
- Web
- http://www.paleycenter.org/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (212) 621-6600
- Address
- 25 West 52 Street
New York
New York
110019
USA - Notes
- Formerly Museum of Television and Radio (MTR). The name changed in 2007.
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