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- This feature length documentary tells the story of Mahani Teave who grew up on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and left at age 9 to pursue her dream of being classical pianist-a journey that takes her from mainland Chile to The Cleveland Music Institute to Berlin and the great concert halls of Europe. At the age of 30, on the brink of international success, Teave gives up her career to pursue a new dream, coming back full circle to Rapa Nui to found a free music school for the island's children. The resulting school-named Toki, after the basalt tool once used to shape Easter Island's iconic sculptures-is a model of sustainability, incorporating tons of tires, bottles and Pacific Ocean plastic; surrounded by agri-environmental gardens to grow food. With Toki, Mahani hopes to shape a bold new future for Rapa Nui and inspire hope and change on Earth, our island home.
- Lino Tagliapietra is considered by many to be the greatest glass blower in history. His influence on a whole generation of artists has been profound. He has been a mentor and a motivator. An innovator. A change-maker. And at age 83, he's still pushing the bounds to see what both the material and the man can do.
- The Pilchuck Glass School outside Seattle has been going for 43 years. Started by Dale Chihuly, when glass in America was at its infancy. This school is responsible for making the US Studio Glass movement what it is today. It's an international institution now, bringing students from all over the world. It started in 1971, during the peace movements, Flower Power and war in Vietnam This documentary tells the story of it's beginnings, and how it's now made the Pacific NW, the largest glass art center in the world.
- 350 years ago two violin makers from the same town, from the same block, made the most sought after violins ever achieved. Everyone has heard of Antonio Stradivari, but few have heard of Guarneri del Gesu. Why?
- A simple concept used in sporting events, you bring the best musicians from every orchestra in the country to Manhattan to film the best music, without an audience, for our cameras only. This is the All-Star Orchestra TV series on PBS.
- Thirty years ago the Supreme Court took away jurisdiction from American Indian Tribal Courts that allowed them to prosecute "non-Indians" on their Land. Decades later, a Tribal Police office's level of integrity and belief in justice is clearly tested as he struggles to stop a non-Indian abuser from destroying his sister's family. Without the vital right to equal protection under the law, the entire family is backed into the same visceral corner.
- On February 19, 1942 Executive Order 9066 changed the lives of over a hundred thousand Japanese Americans in the US, ordering "forced removal of resident enemy aliens." This is the story of shameful period in World War II-era American history through the eyes of one child taken to an internment camp, a 4-year-old George Takei and how it affected him and his family. Moab, Utah was also a backdrop to this dark time as it was the location of the Dalton Wells confinement camp, where the "troublemakers" from the west coast were sent. The Moab Music Festival shines a spotlight on this scandalous period with a new work it commissioned from Japanese American composer Kenji Bunch for chamber ensemble and narrator George Takei, based on Takei's speeches and recollections. This short Op Doc is about compassion, dignity and paranoia, and why hate and distrust are still prevalent today, nearly 80 years later, with the resurgence of anti-Asian American bias.
- Step back 100 years and experience a piece of Seattle's forgotten past. It's 1909. Seattle is on the cusp-shedding its rough frontier past, and embarking on a technological journey destined to become its legacy-a city of innovation, of vision, and of breathtaking beauty. It is at this juncture that the young city decides to host a World's Fair. Its leaders dream big-aiming to put on a grand World's Fair in the spirit of Chicago and St. Louis before it. The fair is held on the burgeoning University of Washington campus against the stunning backdrop of Mount Rainier. Here, Seattle welcomed the world-and the world responded. Visitors walked among palaces fit for an empire, saw new inventions that would change the world, and mined for mirth on the Paystreak, AYP's Midway. Seattle staked a claim at AYP on trade to the North and across the Pacific. It marketed itself as a sophisticated metropolis eager to further America's opportunities across the nation and around the world.
- The legendary impresario Serge Diaghilev of Les Ballets Russes commissioned from Stravinsky and Ravel some of the greatest music for the ballet. His influence stretched from St. Petersburg to Paris to the New York City Ballet founded by Diaghilev's collaborator George Balanchine. Former NYCB Composer in Residence Bright Sheng captures the beauty of the dance with his Prelude to Black Swan
- This program will be an exploration of the creative process, tracing the genesis of Beethoven's iconic symphony and the development of a new work by a modern master. Interactive features will show how short rhythmic and melodic motives evolve into vast symphonic organisms. Interviews will include leading Beethoven scholars and the All-Star musicians
- Inspired by American dreams and legends, Dvorak created some of his greatest works while living in the United States, above all, the "New World" Symphony. This program will investigate the multiple stories and influences - Native American, African-American, and Czech - that Dvorak transformed in his most forward-looking symphony. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Avanti! offers a contemporary interpretation of the American archetype of "moving on." Commentators will include author Joseph Horowitz, Dvorak expert Michael Beckerman, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
- Music has sometimes reflected and at other times challenged repressive ideologies. Shostakovich abandoned the premiere of his challenging 4th Symphony for fear of reprisals from the Stalinist government. His triumphant 5th Symphony was next, and the authorities were pleased. To this day, the 5th is Shostakovich's most popular symphony. What is its message? What does "political music" mean today?
- Robert Schumann's wife, Clara, was herself a gifted pianist and composer. She became a lifelong friend and source of inspiration for Schumann's protégé, Johannes Brahms. This program will explore the turbulent musical and emotional relationships between these three, and the masterpieces that they produced
- This program focuses on the soloist's role, the instruments, and the composer's juxtaposition of soloist with orchestra. Outstanding young soloists and leading American composers will be featured in performance and in interviews
- This program will draw viewers into Tchaikovsky's dramatic personal life, his brief marriage, and his intense correspondence with his patroness Nadezhda Von Meck, whom he never met, and to whom he dedicated his 4th Symphony. The dramatic brass fanfares that for Tchaikovsky symbolized Fate find a modern echo.
- Mahler's turbulent loves are expressed through his music. His settings of poems by Friedrich Rückert explore themes of love, nature, and otherworldliness. Mahler was haunted throughout his life by the premonition of his own death. The first movement of his 2nd Symphony draws stark contrasts between the composer's premonition of doom and his vision of life. Modern parallels can be found in "Adieu" by Bernard Rands and "Of Paradise and Light" by his wife, composer Augusta Read Thomas