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Aaron Copland, music in the 20's [videorecording] / a production of WGBH-TV, Boston, for National Educational Television ; produced and directed by David M. Davis.

West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, c2011.

3 videodiscs (348 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

A series of 12 30-minute lectures and performances commissioned by National Educational Television and presented by composer Aaron Copland.

Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Music -- 20th century.

Television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.

Davis, David M. (David McFarland), 1926-2007.

Marlowe, Sylvia.

Tudor, David, 1926-1996.

Jacobs, Paul, 1930-1983.

Spivakovsky, Tossy, 1907-1998.

Sills, Beverly.

Lenya, Lotte.

Gramm, Donald.

Caldwell, Sarah, 1924-2006.

Rosenstock, Milton.

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

National Educational Television and Radio Center.

Kultur International Films.

Music in the 20's.

Music in the twenties.

Title from container.

Contents listing (1 folded sheet : ill.) inserted in container.

Aaron Copland, presenter ; Featuring Sylvia Marlowe, David Tudor, Paul Jacobs, Tossy Spivakovsky, Juilliard String Quartet, instrumentalists ; Beverly Sills, Lotte Lenya, Donald Gramm, vocalists ; Aaron Copland, Sarah Caldwell, Milton Rosenstock, Igor Stravinsky, conductors.

Recorded in Nov. 1964 and Jan. 1965 at WGBH, Boston. Originally broadcast in 1965.

DVD; soundtrack in Dolby 2.0; aspect ratio 4:3, full screen; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital.

Narration in English.

Program 1. Background, 1910-1919 (Pierrot lunaire. Sections 1, 4, 11, 12, 18, 21) / Schoenberg. L'histoire du soldat / Stravinsky) -- Program 2. Paris, Les six (Mouvements perpétuels. 1st movement ; Valse from the Album of the Six (portion) / Poulenc. Concertino for piano and orchestra / Honegger) -- Program 3. Jazz and jazz influence (La création du monde / Darius Milhaud) -- Program 4. Neo-classicism (Pulcinella suite. Vivo / Igor Stravinsky. Concerto for harpsichord / Manuel de Falla) -- Program 5. Central Europe, 12-tone revolution (Lyric suite. 2nd and 3rd movements / Alban Berg. Quartet, opus 22 / Anton Webern) -- Program 6. New movements in opera (Havanna song : from The rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny ; Surabaya Johnny : from Happy end / Kurt Weill. Hin und zurück / Paul Hindemith) -- Program 7. Nationalism, European style (Second sonata for violin and piano. 2nd movement / Béla Bartók) -- Program 8. Nationalism, New World style (Suite for voice and violin. 3rd movement / Heitor Villa-Lobos. Music for the theatre. Prologue and burlesque / Aaron Copland) -- Program 9. New faces (3rd string quartet, opus 22. 3rd and 5th movements / Paul Hindemith. Quintet, opus 39. 1st movement / Sergei Prokofiev) -- Program 10. American music in the 20's (Concerto for piano, clarinet, and string quartet / Roy Harris. Four saints in three acts. Pigeons in the grass, alas ; Procession of the saints / Virgil Thomson) -- Program 11. Experimental attitudes 1 (The unanswered question ; Two little flowers ; Serenity ; Charlie Rutledge / Charles Ives. Portals : for string orchestra / Carl Ruggles) -- Program 12. Experimental attitudes 2 (The wild man's dance / Leo Ornstein. Advertisement ; Banshee ; Aeolian harp ; Tiger / Henry Cowell. Ionization / Edgar Varèse).

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DVD 780.904 Copeland

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