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).

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.