Acclaimed singer-songwriter James Taylor performs Rodger and Hammerstein's "Shall We Dance?" from “The King and I” at the “Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration.”

The Boston Pops performs Leonard Bernstein's "Times Square: 1944."

Distinguished conductor Gustavo Dudamel leads the fourth annual Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night 2012 concert to be telecast on Great Performances, Friday, August 31, at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration, featuring many of the iconic artists identified with the fete, will air on THIRTEEN’S Great Performances Friday, August 10 at 9 p.m. ET as part of the PBS Arts Summer Festival (check local listings).

THIRTEEN’s Great Performances will present 12-year-old classical crossover prodigy Jackie Evancho’s second television special Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies, in August on PBS (check local listings).

Natalie Dessay and Matthew Polenzani perform "Libiamo" from La Traviata.

Acclaimed French soprano Natalie Dessay makes her Met role debut as Violetta, the fallen woman who sacrifices her last chance for love, in Verdi’s La Traviata airing on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances at the Met Sunday, August 26 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

Star soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met performances of the title role in Manon, Massenet’s opera about a country girl with conflicting desires for love and luxury who is drawn into a life of glamorous -- but hollow -- Parisian sophistication. Manon airs on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances at the Met Sunday, August 5 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

With the recent passing of Rodney King and in the 20th anniversary year of the Los Angeles riots, Great Performances presents an encore presentation of Anna Deveare Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles Friday, June 29 at 10 p.m. ET (check local listings).