Best-selling author Amy Tan hosts the commemorative concert and narrates the historical mini-documentaries woven throughout the special.

Celebrate Yiddish theater pioneers Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky in this new work by their grandson, Michael Tilson Thomas, Artistic Director of the New World Symphony.

“An American in Paris,” “Rhapsody in Blue,” and Hancock’s improvisation on a Gershwin standard fill the bill.

Julie Andrews returns as host of From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2012, this year conducted by Mariss Jansons.

Star singer Andrea Bocelli dazzled thousands with his signature brand of pop and opera on a cold, wet night in New York City’s Central Park, which will be etched in his memory as an important career milestone.

In remembrance of 9/11, the New York Philharmonic performs led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, taped the previous night at a free concert in Avery Fisher Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center.

The works of Liszt, Paganini, Mussorgsky, and Strauss are featured on the traditional concert from Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace Gardens.

Carnegie Hall commemorates its 120th anniversary with an all-star gala concert featuring conductor Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic and special guests pianist Emanuel Ax, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Gil Shaham, and the four-time Tony Award-winning singer and actress Audra McDonald.

Sergei Prokofiev's fanciful musical tale "Peter and the Wolf" is given new life in this innovative new animated interpretation.