From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2013, featuring the infectious melodies of the Strauss Family and contemporaries, will air live on Great Performances, Tuesday, January 1 at 2:30 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings) with an encore performance that evening at 8 p.m.

Guest conductor Gustavo Dudamel leads the Vienna Philharmonic in Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours from the opera ‘La Gioconda’”

The complete program from Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration.

Watch the full program Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration.

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.