Episode 1
Aired Sep 3, 2021
Yannick -- An Artist's Journey
The rise to prominence of conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of The Metropolitan Opera.
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Episode 2
Aired Sep 11, 2021
Verdi's Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11
A special performance of the Verdi Requiem to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks; hosted by Misty Copeland.
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Episode 3
Aired Sep 17, 2021
The Red Shoes
Director-choreographer Matthew Bourne presents a stage adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes," featuring Ashley Shaw, Adam Cooper, Dominic North and Michela Meazza.
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Episode 4
Aired Oct 29, 2021
Now Hear This: Beethoven's Ghost
Violinist Scott Yoo and fellow musicians undertake a recording of Beethoven's most personal music at a historic manor in the Berkshires.
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Episode 5
Aired Nov 12, 2021
A John Williams Premiere at Tanglewood
Composer John Williams returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home at Tanglewood for a performance of his classical works as well as a new violin concerto for Anne-Sophie Mutter.
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Episode 6
Aired Nov 19, 2021
San Francisco Symphony Reopening Night
The opening night of the San Francisco Symphony's 110th season features music by John Adams, Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter and performances by Alonzo King LINES Ballet.
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Episode 7
Aired Nov 26, 2021
Coppelia
Live action dance and animation tell the story of a plastic surgeon whose quest to build the perfect robot woman threatens the lives of a young couple who fall under his spell.
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Episode 8
Aired Mar 13, 1974
In Fashion
Presentations of the performing arts.
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Episode 8
Aired Jan 1, 2022
From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2022
Ringing in the New Year with the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna City Ballet at the Musikverein; host Hugh Bonneville.
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Episode 9
Aired Jan 18, 2022
Reopening -- The Broadway Revival
A behind-the-scenes look at Broadway as shows reunite, rehearse and re-stage following the shutdown due to COVID-19.
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Episode 10
Aired Mar 18, 2022
Movies for Grownups Awards With AARP the Magazine
Honoring films and performances of 2021 that resonate with older viewers.
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Episode 11
Aired Mar 25, 2022
The Conductor
Marin Alsop, the first woman and only conductor to receive a MacArthur Award, becomes the first female music director of a major symphony.
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Episode 12
Aired Apr 8, 2022
Now Hear This: Amy Beach: American Romantic
The life and work of American Romantic composer Amy Beach.
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Episode 13
Aired Apr 15, 2022
Now Hear This: Florence Price and the American Migration
Following Florence Price, one of America's first recognized Black female composers and piano virtuosos, from Little Rock, Ark., to Chicago; how West African music and European hymns inspired American popular music.
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Episode 14
Aired Apr 22, 2022
Now Hear This: Aaron Copland: Dean of American Music
How the works of American classical composer Aaron Copland developed into a signature American sound drawing from his Jewish roots, modernism and folk music.
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Episode 15
Aired Apr 29, 2022
Now Hear This: New American Voices
Two American composers are inspired by their Brazilian and Indian immigrant roots with influences including a Brazilian martial art dance and Indian scales and rhythms.
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Episode 16
Aired May 13, 2022
Anything Goes
The 2021 London production of Cole Porter's musical "Anything Goes" features Tony Award-winners Sutton Foster and Robert Lindsay.
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Episode 17
Aired May 20, 2022
Merry Wives
The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park in South Harlem presents a Shakespearean comedy about the trickster Falstaff and the wily wives who outwit him.
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Episode 18
Aired May 27, 2022
Keeping Company With Sondheim
An inside look at the reimagined production of "Company" as it returns to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Episode 19
Aired Aug 26, 2022
Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2022
The Vienna Philharmonic's annual summer night concert featuring cellist Gautier Capucon at Austria's Schonbrunn Palace.
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