Keeping Score on DVD

Beethoven's Eroica

Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master. Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony help you make sense of this voyage into life as it really is.

This DVD includes:

Beethoven's Eroica documentary
Full concert performance of Beethoven's Eroica in 5.1 Surround Sound
Subtitles in German, French, Spanish, and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)

Available now at 1-877-574-7267
or at www.shopsfsymphony.org.

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

In this DVD, Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony take you from the salons of St. Petersburg to the villages where Stravinsky found inspiration in the earthy power of Russian folk music and dance. Thomas then retraces Stravinsky’s journey to the cultural crossroads of pre-war Paris. There, in collaboration with the great impresario Diaghilev and his star dancer Nijinsky, Stravinsky developed the shocking, sensual, and violent evocation of pagan Russia that became The Rite of Spring.

This DVD includes:

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring documentary
Full concert performance of The Rite of Spring and excerpts from The Firebird Suite in 5.1 Surround Sound
Subtitles in German, French, Spanish, and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)

Available now at 1-877-574-7267
or at www.shopsfsymphony.org.

Copland and the American Sound

Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn in 1900. His artistic development spanned enormous transformation in the American experience—the fears of World War I and the Great Depression, the energy of the Jazz Age, the advent of modernism. And as the nation emerged as a world power, Copland wrote music that gave Americans a sense of their own identity and created a truly American sound.

This DVD includes:

Copland and the American Sound documentary
Full concert performance of Appalachian Spring in 5.1 Surround Sound with alternate "stage" and "audience" perspectives
Subtitles in German, French, Spanish, and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)

Available now at 1-877-574-7267
or at www.shopsfsymphony.org.

Offer made by San Francisco Symphony with KQED.