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  1. Leonard Bernstein Conducts’West Side Story’ (1985 Television)

    Series
    Omnibus
    Director
    Christopher Swann
    Producer
    Humphrey Burton

    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,...

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  2. Omnibus[04/04/1982] (1981 Television)

    Series
    Omnibus
    Director
    Jonathan Fulford
    Producer
    Christopher Swann

    Television arts series presented by Barry Norman. Includes item (c12min) showing rehearsals for Act I vii of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1982 production of Macbeth, directed by Howard Davies - Bob Peck...

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  3. After the Dream (1978 Television)

    Series
    Omnibus
    Director
    Dennis Marks

    BBC television arts documentary programme about Peter Brook. Filmed in rehearsal with Brook in Paris, Stratford and London. The programme focuses on his work since his celebrated production of A Midsummer...

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  4. Actor’s Changing Face: Acting Styles in the 20th Century, The (1969 Television)

    Series
    Omnibus
    Producer
    Hal Burton

    Television arts series introduced by Sheridan Morley. John Gielgud, Dame Edith Evans, Vanessa Redgrave and Donald Sinden discuss the ways in which acting has changed in the last hundred years. There is an...

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  5. Midwinter Night’s Dream, A (1961 Television)

    aka: King John

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    William A. Graham
    Producer
    Robert Saudek

    Anthology arts series hosted by Alistair Cooke. A preview of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, then under construction and scheduled to be completed in 1964. The episode includes an extract (Act...

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  6. What Makes Opera Grand? (1958 Television)

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    Seymour Robbie
    Producer
    Robert Saudek; George M. Benson; Walter Kerr; Mary V. Ahern; Richard Thomas (2)

    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...

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  7. Omnibus [24/02/1957] (1957 Television)

    aka: Boyhood of Will Shakespeare, The

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    David Greene
    Producer
    Robert Saudek

    Arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. The programme contained three items - a pantomime by Jean-Louis Barrault, a dramatic sketch about Shakespeare’s youth, and a re-creation of high living among the...

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  8. Omnibus[03/03/1957] (1957 Television)

    aka: Theatre Breaks Loose

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    David Greene
    Producer
    Robert Saudek

    US arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. In a 45 min item entitled ‘The Theatre Breaks Loose’ directed by David Greene, critic Walter Kerr chronicles the history of theatre from the Greeks to the...

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  9. "To Be or Not to Be": Some Views of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1955 Television)

    aka: Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    Seymour Robbie
    Producer
    Robert Saudek

    US anthology arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. The final item in the programme (42 minutes) offers interpretations of Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘To be, or not to be’, with players from the Stratford...

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  10. Omnibus [15/11/1953] (1953 Television)

    aka: Moor’s Pavanne, The

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    Bob Banner

    Anthology arts series hosted by Alistair Cooke. One section (16 mins) includes José Limon’s contemporary ballet inspired by Othello. Music by Henry Purcell arranged by Simon Sadoff. The director of the...

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