Great Performances Season 2 Episodes

Episode 1

Episode #2.1

Sun, Feb 3, 1974

Episode 2

June Moon

Wed, Jan 30, 197488 mins

In this rousing satire a native upstate New York clerk comes to 1920s Manhattan with dreams of making in big on Tin Pan Alley.

Episode 3

Bernstein at Tanglewood

Wed, Dec 25, 1974

Leonard Bernstein conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E Minor. Bernstein speaks of Serge Koussevitzky, founder of the Berkshire Music Center and former music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, on the centennial of Koussevitzky's birth, reminiscing about the time he came to Tanglewood to study under the famed conductor.

Episode 4

Episode #2.4

Sun, Feb 3, 1974

Episode 5

Episode #2.5

Sun, Feb 3, 1974

Episode 6

Episode #2.6

Sun, Feb 3, 1974

Episode 7

Brother to Dragons

Wed, Feb 19, 197588 mins

Adrian Hall's play, based on a book-length poem by Robert Penn Warren, relates the true story of Isham and Lilburn Lewis, nephews of Thomas Jefferson, who in 1811 murdered a slave named George who was owned by their family.

Episode 8

Episode #2.8

Sun, Feb 3, 1974

Episode 9

Forget-Me-Not-Lane

Wed, Mar 12, 1975119 mins

A man remembers his exasperating, unsuccessful, unhappy father.

Episode 12

The Rules of the Game

Wed, Apr 30, 197588 mins

Luigi Pirandello's tragicomedy, set among the Italian upper ciass in 1918. The main characters are an impulsive young woman, the lover she exasperates and the husband she has made a cuckold of. What sets this triangle apart is the husband's cynical view of life as a game played by arbitrary rules-and his self-proclaimed role as an unemotional observer.

Episode 13

Who's Happy Now?

Wed, May 7, 1975

A small-town east-Texas son comes to terms with his father's disloyalty, his mother's loyalty, and his own needs.