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39 Episodes 1972 - 1973
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 10, 1972
Pierre Boulez is interviewed by Michael Tilson Thomas in a two part presentation. Scenes of Boulez rehearsing and conducting a performance of the overture to "L'incontro Improvviso" by Joseph Haydn.
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 17, 1972
Michael Tilson Thomas talks with Pierre Boulez, who conducts a chamber orchestra in Stravinsky's "Concertino".
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 24, 1972
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 1, 1972
Episode 5
Sun, Oct 8, 1972
Episode 6
Sun, Oct 15, 1972
Episode 7
Sun, Oct 22, 1972
Judith Blegen, an American soprano with the Metropolitan Opera, is profiled.
Episode 8
Sun, Oct 29, 1972
Episode 9
Sun, Nov 5, 1972
Episode 10
Sun, Nov 12, 1972
The daughter of the photographer Diane Arbus, explains her late mother's work with many of her photographs displayed.
Episode 11
Sun, Nov 19, 1972
Excerpts from Tom Johnson's "The Four Note Opera" are performed in recital style.
Episode 12
Sun, Nov 26, 1972
Dramatist Bertolt Brecht is recalled by Gisela May, an actress in his Berliner Ensemble. She demonstrates his epic theater style with an excerpt an excerpt from "Mother Courage."
Episode 13
Sun, Jan 21, 197328 mins
The music, life, composing and playing styles of Scott Joplin, illustrated with performance and graphics. With Eubie Blake, composer-pianist; Joshua Rifkin, composer-pianist; Harold Cromer, dancer. Many performance selections including "Maple Leaf Rag", "The Entertainer" and "Pineapple Rag". Photos of the start of the century, the period in which Joplin lived, St. Louis during the 1904 Worlds Fair, Joplin's musical peers, Ragtime bands, and composers. Rifkin demonstrates how ragtime should and should not be played.
Episode 14
Sun, Jan 28, 1973
The Darpana Dance Company performs a classical Kathakali piece illustrating modern and traditional themes and techniques. Faubion Bowers provides commentary and interviews Mrinalini Sarabhai, an Indian dancer, choreographer and instructor who is the founder and director of the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts.
Episode 15
Sun, Feb 4, 1973
Excerpts from "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus" by Olivier MessIaen are performed by pianist Michel Beroff, conducted by Pierre Boulez.
Episode 16
Sun, Feb 11, 1973
Coward-an irreverent and nostalgic tribute by the cast of off-Broad-way's "Oh, Coward!" Selections include "Mad Dogs and Englishmen, "Why Do the Wrong People Travel?" (from "Sail Away") and "Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs.Worthington."
Episode 17
Sun, Feb 18, 1973
R.D. Laing, psychiatrist, author; and Joseph Chaikin, theater director, in an exchange of views on art, life, values, therapy, and growing up. It is a freewheeling, almost daring mutual interview, sitting face to face on the floor, and starting with making faces at each other. Laing tells stories about his boyhood, and how he was admonished that "men don't cry." Both men are interested in personal freedom and how it is suppressed in western society; it is a theme they return to again and again in this talk, and it is a theme that weighs in heavily in their professional lives as therapist and theater innovator. 1973.
Episode 18
Sun, Feb 25, 1973
Classic Balinese dances are performed by six dancers and twelve musicians. Commentary and interview are by Asian dance authority Faubion Bowers.
Episode 19
Sun, Mar 4, 1973
Sivuca, a Brazilian composer, singer and player of the piano, guitar and harmonica, talks about his career as a self-taught musician.
Episode 20
Sun, Mar 11, 1973
Salute to a great actress: Eleonora Duse (1859-1924), who struck Bernard Shaw as "being infinite in variety of beautiful pose and motion." Duse excelled in emotional roles and her portrayal of Camille in Dumas' "La Dame aux Camelias" in New York (1893) was considered a rare dramatic event. Duse's life is discussed by Julie Harris and Eva Le Gallienne.
Episode 21
Sun, Mar 18, 1973
Turning an off-Broadway hit into a movie: a report on "Godspell," the 1971 rock musical based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew. Among those interviewed are the film's director, David Greene; composer Stephen Schwartz; and author John-Michael Tebelak, who explain how the stage show is "opened up" on screen.
Episode 22
Sun, Mar 25, 1973
"Speed Reading: Sense or Non-sense?" Find out by taking a reading test on today's show, which also demonstrates ways to increase your comprehension and vocabulary.
Episode 23
Sun, Apr 1, 1973
First of 2-parts: a profile of Leni Riefenstahl who earned renown as a documentarian and controversy as a one time propagandist for the Nazis. She reflects on the making of "Triumph of Will" (1934), her record of a massive rally for Hitler at Nuremberg in the first episode.
Episode 24
Sun, Apr 8, 1973
"An inspired hymn of praise to human beauty" is how one critic described Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia." In the second of two shows, the German filmmaker recalls the making of her 1936 documentary on the Berlin Olympics. Excerpts are seen from "Olympia's" high-diving segment.
Episode 25
Sun, Apr 15, 1973
Japanese puppet theater: a comedy, based on a 500-year-old Noh play, about a man fishing in a eiver for a beautiful woman; a tragedy about suicidal lovers who marry in heaven. Also: a film showing how the puppets are made and manipulated.
Episode 26
Sun, Apr 29, 1973
Melodies from the 16th century are evoked by the lute, a forerunner of the modern guitar. Lutenist Rodrigo Dezayas is accompanied by his soprano-wife Anne Perret, performing works by Bach, English composer John Dowland and other great lutenists. Also: Dezayas demonstrates replicas of lutes: a 13-string Baroque instrument; an eight-choir Elizabethan lute.
Episode 27
Sun, May 6, 1973
A profile of Sarah Caldwell, director of The Opera Company of Boston, includes a behind the scenes study of the preparation of a production of Donizeltti's "Daughter of the Regiment."
Episode 28
Sun, May 13, 1973
The Modern Jazz Quartet performs two favorites by Milt Jackson (who plays vibraharp for the group) and an electronic arrangement, "Visitors from Space," composed by pianist-harpsichordist John Lewis. The quartet's other members are Connie Kay on drums and Percy Heath (bass).
Episode 29
Sun, May 20, 1973
Artist, illustrator and film animator George Dunning Explains his work and Ideas in this documentary shot In England.
Episode 30
Sun, May 27, 1973
Jerzy Grotowski, whose vivid experiences in theater have sparked controversy on two continents, relates his adventures hitchhiking through the U.S. and discusses his Laboratory Theater of Wroclaw. Photos of scenes from two productions-"Akropolis," set in a death camp, and "The Constant Prince,' about a gentle leader tortured by a crazed society, are presented.
Episode 31
Sun, Jun 3, 1973
English director Peter Brook, whose fresh dramatic vision spans the grotesque lunacy of Marat/Sade" and the high-flying fantasy of "A Midsummer Night's Dream, discusses his recent African tour. Pictures of his acting company living and rehearsing in villages are presented and he talks about today's theater.
Episode 32
Sun, Jun 10, 1973
Life along a Texas highway is the subject of a film study, "To Sarah Lee." Shots of rodeo riders, road stop waitresses and long-haul truck drivers etch a portrait of isolation and time-lessness. Evoking memories of an earlier era are scenes of a cattle auction, a poker game and an Old West shoot-out.
Episode 33
Sun, Jun 17, 1973
The works of Homer, Euripides, Plato and other Greek authors are discussed by two classical scholars. The topics include Greeks' psychological insights.
Episode 34
Sun, Jun 24, 1973
"O sudden subtly-running fire!" is Sappho's vision of the amatory passion known as Eros. In celebration of this special kind of love, British actor Leo Aylen, accompanied by music from a Moog synthesizer, presents readings from classic Greek poetry. Included: the reunion between Odysseus and Penelope from Homer's epic.
Episode 35
Sun, Jul 1, 1973
A portrait of photographer Edward Steichen, filmed several years before his death at 93, recalls his youth in Europe; experiences with Rodin and the Impressionists; years as a fashion photographer; and his work for "The Family of Man."
Episode 36
Sun, Jul 8, 1973
James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" is explored by novelist Anthony Burgess ("Clockwork Orange"). From a recreated Irish pub, he examines major themes in the novel-death and rebirth, night and the subconscious and sings "The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly," one of the songs in "Finnegans Wake."
Episode 37
Sun, Jul 15, 1973
Schizophrenia: madness or a valid response to a complicated world? That's one of the questions explored in the first of a two-part program about the disease by doctors Paul Gillette and Humphry Osmond. Gillette is co-author of "Depression" and Osmond helped design a test for detecting schizophrenia.
Episode 38
Sun, Jul 22, 1973
Frequency of mental illness among highly creative people is examined in the second of two shows probing schizophrenia. Drs. Paul Gillette and Humphry Osmond also discuss treatment of the disease, its relation to other disorders.
Episode 39
Sun, Jul 29, 1973
Are the English losing their cultural identity? That's one of the topics examined by Quintin Hogg (Lord Hail-sham of St. Marylebone), the Lord Chancellor of England. Also discussed: his views on law and order and the aesthetic virtues of the English language.