GREAT PERFORMANCES mourns the passing of A.R. Gurney, the acclaimed playwright and novelist whose work has been featured on GP on several occasions over the years, beginning in 1979 with his television adaptation of the John Cheever story “O Youth & Beauty” and then again in 1984 ...
GREAT PERFORMANCES mourns the passing of legendary blues and gospel singer Linda Hopkins, who memorably co-starred with Ruth Brown in Black and Blue, a musical revue celebrating the blues and dance music between the World Wars. Nominated for ten Tony Awards and winning three, the ...
GREAT PERFORMANCES mourns the passing of Glenn DuBose, an award-winning producer, director and administrator of arts programming, who died November 10, 2016, at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach at the age of 81. DuBose produced or directed more than 60 national arts programs ...
GREAT PERFORMANCES mourns the passing of Fyvush Finkel, who rose to fame as a leading star of New York City’s vibrant Yiddish Theater and later transitioned into mainstream roles on Broadway as well as in film and television. In November 1995, Finkel made a memorable ...
GREAT PERFORMANCES mourns the passing of writer, professor, political activist, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, whose tireless work to document the Holocaust as well as defend human rights and victims of oppression everywhere was recognized with a Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. In 2014, Wiesel ...
GREAT PERFORMANCES mourns the passing of influential conductor and early-music specialist Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who died on Saturday, March 5, 2016, at the age of 86. Born in Berlin in 1929, Harnoncourt joined the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as a cellist in 1952 after a demanding audition ...
Pierre Boulez appeared in Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Pierre Boulez Conducts Mahler’s 7th (2010) and The Berlin Philharmonic Europakonzert: From Lisbon (2003), and conducted the first televised version of the Ring --- an eight-part adaptation of Wagner’s Ring Cycle from the Bayreuth Festival (1983), which debuted ...
Great Performances mourns the untimely passing of Natalie Cole, whose many GP appearances began in 1992 with the Emmy-winning Unforgettable, With Love: Natalie Cole Sings the Songs of Nat King Cole, a concert of jazz and pop songbook standards from her Grammy-winning tribute album to ...
Great Performances mourns the death of musician, songwriter and producer Allen Toussaint (January 14, 1938 - November 10, 2015), a native of New Orleans, LA, who defined New Orleans R&B. It was Great Performances' honor to present Toussaint's artistry in Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk ...
GREAT PERFORMANCES mourns the passing of American author E. L. Doctorow, who died July 21, 2015, at the age of 84 after complications from lung cancer. As a critically acclaimed author of historical fiction, Doctorow was lauded for his singular ability to capture the rhythms ...
