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November 25th, 1990
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After twenty years I have watched my last New Years concert from Vienna. Daniel Barenboim looked as though he’d slept in his clothes and conducted in a coma-like style. Julie Andrews exuded the warmth of a cast iron lamp post. I loved hearing about HER career, HER life – that is when we were not getting lectured as though we were school children. Can anyone in Austria actually WALTZ? No more ballet to Strauss PLEASE!!! And as for the “nymph-children” whose community theatre-like antics ruined The Blue Danube Waltz..spare us! Herbert von Karajan dead, and Walter Cronkite at 93 were better. From now on its’ NPR’s broadcast for me.
In 1991, Great Performances aired George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum. Since that time, I have not been able to find a copy for purchase. Would anyone know where I could purchase this production?
This comment is quite late in coming re Previn’s “Streetcar,” but I must make it or bust:
The opera is basically monotonous monotone, except perhaps to a musicologist who would state otherwise. Too, one of the most dramatic moments of impending doom happens when Blanche opens the door upon an omninous figure calling out, “Flores para los muertos”; yet Previn simply slurrs over the moment with that same droning music as before. Even that masterful soprano Renee Flemming came accross as thin and tinny in timbre. To wit: Ah, pooh!
Wednesday, April 15, 8:00pm
A production of Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” WHAT HAPPENED/
A breathtaking performance of Lucia di Lammermoor.
Do you have a Great Performance-Opera Schedule for 2009. Thanx PBS
WE DON’T PRECEDE TRUE LIFE. CURRENT IMPACT REVEALS LARGE CAPACITY OF POPULATION 2009 WHERE I AM LIVING WITH HIGH TECH VALUE. THE LATEST PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT. THANK YOU.
I love that PBS shows all these performances however I am quite annoyed that they only release a few of them to dvd. I have been looking for the 1998 Twelfth Night since it was first shown and cannot find a copy anywhere. If taped if please email me Drucila616@aol.com
We enjoyed the program “Hit Man” very much. We would like more programs with Joosh Groban. PBS has filmed a least two of his concerts, maybe you could show them. Thank you
PLEASE PLEASE broadcast “Chess in Concert” in Los Angeles!!!!!
What horrible thing has happened to the audio (the broadcast sound) of the last several Met broadcasts? Compared to Live at Lincoln Center, the Met now sounds constricted, nasal, and weirdly balanced left to right. There’s a hollow resonance to everything, like a massive phase problem. Sounds like two tin cans on a wet string, almost. A great disappointment, and the sort of Emperor’s New Clothes thing that happens (I’m just guessing) when money is spent to ‘improve’ sound and no one wants to admit how badly things turned out.
I also watched George Wolfe play The Colored Museum and have been telling anybody and everybody about the play. I was hoping to see it again but it never came back on, so I have been searching the Web for the DVD, can someone help me in locating the the play on DVD. The one that was shown on WHUT about 11:00 or 12:00 at night. Feb 1, 1991. IT WAS EXCELLANT. I loved the one about the airplane instead of a slave ship.
to ETV: please, please please– as a member and supporter of ETV, how can I becheach you to re-run Peter Martins’ “Romeo and Juliet?” We only saw half of it and would love to see the entire program. How else can we get our SC children interested and learn about the classics? thank you, Diane
I am also looking for a way to purchase of the the play “The Colored Museum” by George C wolfe. I need this for my Black women’s studies group to view, we have read the play, we want more. Please Help someone.
Like other viewers, I too would love to get a copy of George C. Wolfe’ Colored Museum for my personal library. Please contact me with details on how to purchase. Thank you.
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12/30/2008 :: 02:17:59 AM
sally ross Says:
I thought the program ‘Dr. Atomic’ was absolutely aBOMBinable. Why would anyone want to make a ‘musical’ of the story about the history of the first atomic bomb? I also thought the staging, though interesting, was rediculous and the words to ‘music’ awful. The voices were good but the content deplorable. I managed to catch the end with “give us water” and “help us”. Is this some sort of commentary on the U.S. decision to end WWII and reduce our casualties? I’m glad I didn’t waste time watching the whole thing. Don’t expect me to donate to this type of production or your next- musical of the Holocaust.