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Viennese pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, soloist at the Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2015, performs Alfred Grünfeld's "Soirée de Vienne." Grünfeld (1852 - 1924) was an Austrian pianist and composer who was once court pianist to Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany and a professor at the ...

Guest conductor Zubin Mehta leads the Vienna Philharmonic in Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16, with Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder. This free outdoor concert, recorded in May 2015, has a Scandinavian program but it ends as it does every year with a ...

Led by guest conductor Zubin Mehta, the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic returns for its 12th open-air summer concert, this time with a Scandinavian flavor, in the magnificent gardens of Austria’s Imperial Schönbrunn Palace. The varied program includes favorites by Grieg, Sibelius and Lumbye. The concert soloist ...

Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez headline Rossini’s bel canto tour-de-force "La Donna del Lago" on Great Performances at the Met (check local listings). Based on the work by Sir Walter Scott, DiDonato is Elena, the lady of the lake pursued by two men, with ...

Watch the great composer John Williams at work at Royce Hall in Los Angeles, CA, recording the theme song he wrote for Great Performances. The theme won the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music and has been heard on Great Performances broadcasts ...

Violinist Itzhak Perlman plays the Cadenza and Variations section of John Williams' score to the film Fiddler on the Roof for the first time. This is an excerpt from Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration with the LA Phil.

Gustavo Dudamel hands the stage off to John Williams to conduct "The Imperial March" from his score to "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back." The march is also known as "Darth Vader's Theme." This is an excerpt from "Dudamel Conducts a John Williams Celebration with ...

John Williams composed the score to "Catch Me If You Can" (2002), directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. The film dramatizes the swindles of a real-life con man. Before the LA Philharmonic performs "Escapades" from the score, Gustavo Dudamel and ...

As chauffeur Hoke Colburn (James Earl Jones) and his employer Daisy Werthan (Angela Lansbury) set out on a long drive, Daisy reminisces about a family trip she took as a child, expressing something personal in an unguarded moment with Hoke. Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play ...

Hoke Colburn (James Earl Jones), a chauffeur for Daisy Werthan, asks her son Boolie Werthan (Boyd Gaines) for a raise after he receives a competing job offer. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play stars five-time Tony Award winner and three-time Academy Award nominee Angela Lansbury and two-time ...