Great Performances mourns the passing of Emmy Award-winning pioneer producer and director of Dance in America Merrill Brockway in Santa Fe at the age of 90.

Folk legend Richie Havens passed away yesterday from a heart attack at the age of 72. Watch Richie Havens perform his iconic song “Freedom” from the GREAT PERFORMANCES presentation of Pete Seeger’s 90^th Birthday Celebration.

Great Performances mourns the passing of Maria Tallchief, a Native American who grew up on an Indian reservation and later became a world famous prima ballerina. She died in Chicago at the age of 88.

Jonathan Winters, one of the great comedians of our time, has passed away at the age of 87.

On Friday, August 10th at the 27th Annual Imagen Awards in the International Ball Room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, GREAT PERFORMANCES: Il Postino from LA Opera received the Imagen Award for Best Variety or Reality show.

GREAT PERFORMANCES is proud to announce that we received five Primetime Emmy nominations.

GREAT PEROFRMANCES mourns the passing of Celeste Holm who died last Sunday at the age of 95.

Twelve-year-old classical crossover prodigy Jackie Evancho will record a new Great Performances special in Los Angeles at the Orpheum Theater on June 13.

We mourn the passing of the great German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who passed away Friday, May 18th at the age of 86.