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Keeping Score is the ground- breaking series by the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas. It’s designed to bring classical music to people of all ages and musical back- grounds.
This mini-series, Revolutions In Music, focuses on the meaning of music, with episodes devoted to Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Copland, highlighting what made their music so revolutionary, and why it is still so powerful today.
Beethoven’s Eroica airs November 2, 2006.
Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring airs November 9, 2006.
Copland and the American Sound airs November 16, 2006.
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Keeping Score in HD
In addition to the three documentary episodes in Revolutions in Music, PBS HD stations will also air two full concert performances of the works featured. Find a broadcast in your area »
Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony
The first Keeping Score episodes premiered on Great Performances in June 2004. To learn more about these episodes, The Making of a Performance and Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in Performance, click here.
Other Keeping Score Offerings
Keeping Score also offers an interactive website, a series on public radio hosted by Michael Tilson Thomas, and an education program for teachers to help them incorporate music in all K-12 subjects.
Keeping Score’s “Revolutions In Music” was produced by the San Francisco Symphony, which also created the related web site www.KeepingScore.org.
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