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GREAT PERFORMANCES is America's longest running series devoted to the
performing arts. Currently in its 24th season on PBS, the series has
produced or presented more than 600 programs of music, dance, drama,
opera, and artist profiles. Under the leadership of executive producer Jac
Venza, the roster of major artists who have found a showcase for their
work on GREAT PERFORMANCES reads like a Who's Who of the past and
present in the performing arts, ranging from Leonard Bernstein, George
Balanchine, Rogers and Hammerstein, Martha Graham and Aaron Copland
to Stephen Sondheim, Wynton Marsalis, Wendy Wasserstein, Paul Taylor,
and George C. Wolfe. Thirteen/WNET in New York launched Theater in
America in 1972, creating the first component of the series that would
come to be knows as GREAT PERFORMANCES. In 1975, Dance in America
premiered as a subseries presented under the GREAT PERFORMANCES banner.
The series has won 50 Emmy Awards from over 120 nominations, and has
also received every other major television award, both nationally and
internationally, including the prestigious PEABODY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN BROADCASTING
and the PRIX ITALIA.
GREAT PERFORMANCES is produced for PBS by Thirteen/WNET and funded
by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for
the Arts, and public television stations. Special funding for I HEAR AMERICA
SINGING was provided by the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust.
GREAT PERFORMANCES is presented by an alliance of six public television
stations: WNET/New York; KERA/Dallas-Ft. Worth; KQED/San
Francisco; MPT/Maryland; SCETV/Columbia, SC; and WTTW/Chicago.
David Horn is series producer for music; Glenn DuBose is managing
director. Jac Venza is Executive Producer.
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