Movies & TV

Musical adaptation of Chales Dickens's "A Christmas Carol." Music by Fred Spielman, Lyrics by Janice Torre Starring: Basil Rathbone, Patrice Munsel, Vic Damone, Johnny Desmond, Martyn Green, Robert Weede, the Four Lads. Live telecast 1956.

One of the most legendary musicals of the American musical theater, LADY IN THE DARK - with a book by Moss Hart, music by Kurt Weill, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin - premiered on Broadway in 1941. This critically acclaimed TV production was praised by The...

The pianist performs works by Rachmaninoff and Schumann/Liszt in these 1958 and 1972 live performances at the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Kyrill Kondrashin. B&W.

The pianist performs works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, and Liszt live in 1962 at the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Kyrill Kondrashin. B&W.

For the legendary comic actor Groucho Marx, playing the role of Ko-Ko in the Mikado "fulfilled a lifelong ambition." the Mikado was Groucho's favorite among the works of his beloved Gilbert and Sullivan, and the 1960 Bell Telephone Hour production was...

1957 telecast has a cast led by Celeste Holm, Alfred Drake, Barbara Cook, Bill Hayes, & Henry Calvin. At the time of it's airing, the New York Times praised the opulent production, which was a joy to see and hear. Contributing to the success of the...

George Szell conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from a December 1961 TV broadcast.

Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev with the Bolshoi Ballet in this 1982 Gavrilin ballet performance.

Patricia Morison, Alfred Drake, Julie Wilson. Five years after the big screen affair with Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel comes this wonderful TV production of the original stage play complete with Cole Porter's outstanding score. Loosely based on...

Directed by Max Liebman. Starring Arnold Moss, Doretta Morrow, Alfred Drake.

Included in these 1960, 1965, and 1972 B&W mono performances are works by Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, and Debussy.

For the Love of Mahler takes us into the passionate world of Henry-Louis de La Grange, a charismatic 91-year-old music historian who, since first hearing a Mahler symphony in 1945, devoted the rest of his life to researching every detail of the...