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Great Performances

Grade Levels: 6 - 13+
Core Subject(s): Fine Arts - Dance, Fine Arts - Music, Fine Arts - Theater
Website: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/
Next Airing: Wed, Jan 1st, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD

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GREAT PERFORMANCES, the longest-running performing arts anthology on television, continues to feature the best in the performing arts.

Episodes:

  • From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2025

    Experience this annual beloved concert from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Strauss. Conducted by Riccardo Muti for the seventh time, PBS favorite Hugh Bonneville returns to host.

    Next Airing: Wed, Jan 1st, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD
    Length: 01:30:00
    Usage rights: 1/1/2025 to 6/30/2025
  • Henry Mancini 100 at the Hollywood Bowl

    The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, along with special guests, celebrate the centennial birthday of Henry Mancini, the peerless composer for film, television and popular song. The 4-time Oscar and 20-time Grammy-winning composer of "Moon River" and the "Pink Panther" made 29 conducting appearances on the iconic Bowl's stage. Michael Buble, Cynthia Erivo, saxophonist Dave Koz and Mancini's daughter Monica Mancini gather to perform Mancini's signature songs, interspersed with clips from his beloved movies and TV shows. In addition, behind-the-scenes documentary footage captures the recording sessions for "The Henry Mancini 100th Sessions - Henry Has Company," a new, all-star album featuring a diverse range of artists including Gustavo Dudamel, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Lizzo, Stevie Wonder, Pat Metheny, Take 6, Snarky Puppy, and more.

    Length: 02:00:00
    Usage rights: 11/29/2024 to 12/29/2026
  • Land of Gold

    Land of Gold explores the making of John Adams and Peter Sellars' San Francisco Opera premiere of their latest collaboration, Girls of the Golden West, dramatizing the turbulent history of the California Gold Rush. With the new opera's title referencing Giacomo Puccini's 1910 romantic favorite The Girl of the Golden West, Adams and Sellars' work tells a harsher and more accurate story through the letters of writer Louise Clappe, who lived in a miners' settlement for a year and a half. Land of Gold takes viewers into parallel universes 170 years apart with the historical characters of 1851 on a cultural collision course, and then behind the scenes at San Francisco Opera with the cast and creatives excavating that same history within today's cultural turmoil. Amid the backstage hubbub, composer Adams, singers Julia Bullock, Paul Appleby, J'Nai Bridges, and director Sellars wrestle their bittersweet opera onto the stage. Marking filmmaker Jon Else's third documentary with Adams, Land of Gold lays bare the flamboyant but brutal roots of modern America.

    Length: 01:26:46
    Usage rights: 11/1/2024 to 10/31/2027
  • Patsy Cline: Walkin' After Midnight

    Patsy Cline's music has transcended generations, leaving an indelible mark on the cultural landscape of American music. With her unmistakable voice and heartfelt delivery, she became a trailblazer in country music and beyond, a crossover artist who paved the way for countless artists who have followed in her footsteps. Recorded at Cline's musical home at Nashville's legendary Ryman Auditorium, Patsy Cline: Walkin' After Midnight honors her legacy with her signature songs and memories from those she knew and influenced. Among the artists gathering to pay tribute are Wynonna, Ashley McBryde, Grace Potter, Beverly D'Angelo, Crystal Gayle, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Mickey Guyton, Kristin Chenoweth, Rita Wilson, Natalie Grant, Kellie Pickler, Pam Tillis, Tigerlily Gold, Reyna Roberts, Tami Neilson, Tiera Kennedy, Mandy Barnett, Annie Bosko and The Isaacs and Home Free. The program also features archival interviews and commentary from fellow artists and those who knew Patsy including her husband, Charlie Dick, and friends like Loretta Lynn, Dottie West, Roy Clark and Owen Bradley.

    Length: 01:27:15
    Usage rights: 11/22/2024 to 11/21/2027
  • Rodgers & Hammerstein's 80th Anniversary: My Favorite Things

    Explore the vast repertoire of these musical theater pioneers in a star-studded concert featuring Aaron Tveitt, Patrick Wilson and more performing from shows like "Carousel," "South Pacific," "The King and I," "The Sound of Music" and more.

    Length: 01:56:46
    Usage rights: 5/31/2024 to 5/30/2028

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