Chamber Music & Recitals

No non-Western musical idiom has so impacted on the Western concert tradition as Indonesian gamelan, beginning with the Javanese Pavilion at the 1889 Paris Exposition: an epiphany. Sampling gamelan-inspired works by Debussy, Ravel, and McPhee, our film...

Buffeted by social and political currents, Copland can seem unmoored: a cork in a stream. He was politicized by the Depression- and by the example of Mexico, whose artists galvanized national identity and progressive thought. He wrote a prize-winning...

This DVD includes scenes from Moscow and the Golden Ring, the cluster of historic towns to the northeast of the city, including Vladimir, Suzdal, Rostov, and Zagorsk, and show the historic heart of Russia in winter and summer.

A tour of Salzburg, Vienna, Gmunden, Waldvirtel and Drosenberg set to three Serenades by Mozart including Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

Venices famous buildings and canals are seen with music by Corelli, Vivaldi, Torelli, Albinoni, and D. Scarlatti.

Most of the places visited reflect a spirit of calm and tranquility, although the glimpses of Venice dwell briefly on carnival revelers. Other scenes range from the Bavarian Chiemsee and the Swiss Engadin to the marshy tracts of the Camargue in the South.

This tour of the Czech Republic takes US through the countryside, following the River Vltava to Prague, visiting some of the great buildings that lie on it's course. Included are works by Smetana and Dvorak.

The Places - Potsdam owes it's development as a garrison town to the soldier king of Prussia, Frederick William I. The park and palaces of Sanssouci, however, largely reflect the very different taste of his son, Frederick the Great, who reigned from 1740...

Glimpses of the glory that was Rome is shown to music by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Puccini, Berlioz, Mozart, Rossini, Leoncavallo, Verdi, Liszt, and Wagner.

This visit to Spain centers on the old capital of Castile, Toledo, historically famous for it's steel and swords, the home of the great painter known as El Greco. There are views of Cordoba, with it's relics of Moorish occupation.

The past splendors of the Hapsburg Empire up to the establishment of the republic of Czechoslovakia are seen to music by Smetana, Janacek, Fibich, Mozart, Dvorak, and Rossler.

The music chosen for this tour of Guilin is played on traditional Chinese instruments. Performing the music are wind and string ensembles known as "silk and bamboo," from their silk strings and bamboo pipes, and ensembles that also include percussion.