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Producers' Showcase: Festival of Music, Vol. 1.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Classical.
- Romantic.
- Late Romantic.
- Local Subjects:
- Classical.
- Romantic.
- Late Romantic.
- Genre:
- Performance
- Opera + Operetta:Opera
- Symphony orchestra
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (78 minutes)
- Contained In:
- Producers' Showcase: Festival of Music, Vol. 1
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Showcase Productions, Inc., 1956.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Charles Laughton hosts this memorable episode from the arts anthology TV series "Producer's Showcase" which boasts an all-star roster of classical musicians and singers in concert. Performers include Leonard Warren ("Prologue" from "Pagliacci"), Isaac Stern (Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor), Marian Anderson with a gospel medley, Rise Stevens ("Card Song" from "Carmen"), Artur Rubinstein (Chopin's Polonaise in C Minor), and many more.
- Contents:
- Pagliacci 'Si puo?'
- Pagliacci 'Vesti la giubba'
- Mendelssohn 'Violin Concerto in E Minor, 3rd movement'
- Tosca 'Vissi d'arte'
- Les Contes d'Hoffman 'Les oiseaux dans la charmille'
- Weber 'Adagio & Rondo'
- O What a Beautiful City
- Poor me
- He's got the whole world in His hands
- Les Contes d'Hoffman 'Belle nuit'
- Carmen 'En vain pour eviter'
- La Boheme 'Oh, sventata'
- La Boheme 'Che gelida manina'
- La Boheme 'Si, mi chiamano Mimi'
- Chopin 'Polonaise in A-flat, Op. 53'.
- Participant:
- Performers: Showcase Symphony Orchestra, Charles Laughton (master of ceremonies); conducted by Max Rudolf; directed by Kirk Browning.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 12, 2018).
- Recorded on 30 Jan 1956 at New York, NY.
- OCLC:
- 649689067
- Publisher Number:
- 4244 Showcase Productions
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