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43 Episodes 1975 - 1976
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 14, 1975
Martin Silbersher uses photography of nature subjects like trees, flowers and streams to accompany the poetry of Wordsworth, Keats, Milton, Blake, Roethke and others
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 21, 197529 mins
Examining the golden years 1934 to 1964 of the Warner Bothers film cartoon department, which created cartoon characters known all over the world.
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 28, 197529 mins
Continuation of program (Season 21, Episode 2) interviewing classic Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies directors, with many cartoon clips.
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 5, 1975
Margaret Croyden introduced and comments on the Nigeria drama-musical-dance play performed by the Nigerian/African theater company.
Episode 5
Sun, Oct 12, 1975
This episode examines the development of reggae music in Jamaica using interviews, footage of music and dance performances, and scenes from daily life.
Episode 6
Sun, Oct 19, 1975
Author-critic-filmmaker Susan Sontag interviews French filmmaker Louis Malle, whose latest film "Black Moon" was recently shown at the New York Film Festival.
Episode 7
Sun, Oct 26, 1975
"Promenade" is an experimental musical comedy that premiered, off-Broadway in 1965, with Al Carmines' music and lyrics by Maria Irene Fornes and is recalled In this program.
Episode 8
Sun, Nov 2, 1975
A profile of Korean musician and co-inventor of the Paik-Abe video synthesizer, Nam June Paik, with a presentation of artist's musical and electronic works including a piano piece in which he destroys his instrument.
Episode 9
Sun, Nov 9, 1975
Andrew Rooney offers his impressions of stairways, from the simple ladder to those of circular design; plus a reflection of their use and misuse.
Episode 10
Sun, Nov 16, 1975
Theater critic Margaret Croydon interviews Lee Strasberg, co-founder of the Actors Studio, and leading proponent of Method Acting.
Episode 11
Sun, Nov 23, 1975
Episode 12
Sun, Nov 30, 1975
A behind-the-scenes look at Japan's Kabuki theater performing a highly stylized form of drama in a tradition started in the 17th century. Included is an interview with a Kabuki family, the Koshiros, discussing their art.
Episode 13
Sun, Dec 7, 1975
Episode 14
Sat, Dec 13, 1975
Episode 15
Thu, Nov 20, 1975
Episode 16
Sun, Dec 28, 1975
Episode 17
Sun, Jan 4, 1976
Episode 18
Sun, Jan 11, 1976
Episode 19
Sun, Jan 18, 1976
Episode 20
Sun, Jan 25, 1976
Episode 21
Sun, Feb 1, 1976
Episode 22
Sun, Feb 8, 1976
Episode 23
Sun, Feb 22, 1976
One in this series of programs on the performing and visual arts. In this edition, devoted to the life and career of Noel Coward, actors Jean Marsh, George Rose, Carole Shelley, and Kristoffer Tabori utilize Coward's writings, sayings, scenes from his plays, and performances of his musical numbers to present a well-rounded portrait of the man and his work. After noting Coward's early love of the theater and his first precocious roles, Carole Shelley and George Rose perform a scene from Coward's 1935 play "Tonight at 8:30" in which a married vaudeville couple argue about their act and each others' performances before going on stage. Rose and Shelley then sing "Why Must the Show Go On" from the musical "Break It Up" by Mel Torme and Robert Wells. Jean Marsh and Kristoffer Tabori perform a scene from "The Vortex," Coward's first play, a serious drama about a vain, aging woman and her cocaine-addicted son. Next, Rose sings "You Were There" from Coward's 1936 musical "Shadow Play," and a pianist plays a medley of additional Coward numbers, as examples of his growing reputation as a composer and lyricist as well as a playwright. Marsh reads from a poem written during Coward's nervous breakdown in 1937, after which Shelley sings "Twentieth Century Blues."
Episode 24
Sun, Feb 29, 1976
Episode 25
Sun, Mar 7, 1976
Episode 26
Sun, Mar 14, 197630 mins
The internationally popular Irish music "The Chieftains" group plays a variety of traditional instruments, talks, and sings. After fifteen years together they are largely responsible for the revival of the Irish folk music tradition. Graphics and film illustrate some of their songs. The instruments: Irish harp, tin whistle, uilleann pipes, flute, fiddles, bones and bodhran drum. Performance pieces include the 17th century "Morgan McGann", the "Train Song", "Music from Brittany." "The Battle of Aughrim" (illustrated with paintings of the battle especially commissioned for this broadcast), "Women of Ireland" (theme of film "Barry Lyndon"), "Kerry Slides" (dance). The Chieftains are hugely popular but they also are determined to play Irish music their way only: "we have jobs we can go back to," they say.
Episode 27
Sun, Mar 21, 1976
Episode 28
Sun, Mar 28, 1976
Episode 29
Sun, Apr 4, 1976
Episode 30
Sun, Apr 11, 1976
Episode 31
Sun, Apr 25, 1976
Episode 32
Sun, May 2, 1976
Episode 33
Sun, May 9, 1976
Episode 34
Wed, May 5, 1976
Episode 35
Sun, May 23, 1976
Episode 36
Sun, May 30, 1976
Episode 37
Sun, Jun 6, 1976
Episode 38
Sun, Jun 13, 1976
Episode 39
Sun, Jun 20, 1976
Broadway star Barbara Cook performs in her first television concert a year after her acclaimed Carnegie Hall concert .
Episode 40
Sun, Jul 11, 1976
Lowell Cross, a music professor, created "lightshow music" to accompany the musical sound. He offers an explanation and demonstration in a performance of Aleksandr Scriabin's 1909 composition "Prometheus: The Poem of Fire."
Episode 41
Sun, Jul 18, 1976
Faubion Bowers examines Soviet cinema with three Russian expatriate guests: actress Viktoria Fyodorova, director Mikhail Bogin, and cinematographer Mikhail Suslov.
Episode 42
Sun, Jul 25, 1976
A one-woman show starring actress Carol Teitel, who offers excerpts dealing with love from the literary works of Emily Dickinson, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound and William Wycherly.
Episode 43
Sun, Aug 1, 1976
A trio of actors read selections from three of Thomas Wolfe's novels: "Look Homeward Angel," "Of Time and the River," and "You Can't Go Home Again.