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Mostly Mozart Festival opening

Title
Mostly Mozart Festival opening [videorecording] / Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts ; Mostly Mozart Festival, Gerard Schwartz, conductor ; Live from Lincoln Center ; directed by Kirk Browning ; produced by John Goberman.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : WNET, 1994.

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Description
2 videocassettes (Betacam SP, NTSC) (119 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Uniform Title
  • Live from Lincoln Center (Television program) Show 114.
  • Backstage at Lincoln Center (Television program). 104.
Alternative Title
  • How can a miserable person write happy music?
  • Playing it by ear.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Music – Performance.
  • Television.
Note
  • Credits at end of tape 2.
  • Includes pretaped intermission features titled "How can a miserable person write happy music?" and "Playing it by ear" (from the television show Backstage at Lincoln Center, episode no. 104) featuring commentary by Peter Shaffer (author of the play Amadeus), Dr. Howard Gardner, Robert Levin, Gerard Schwarz, and Wynton Marsalis.
  • Program available from Music Division.
Credits (note)
  • Writer, Danny Abelson.
Event (note)
  • Recorded at Alice Tully Hall, New York, N.Y., and telecast live by WNET as part of its series Live from Lincoln Center, on July 6, 1994.
Source (note)
  • Lincoln Center for the PerformingArts;
Contents
Tape 1. Introduction (Hugh Downs) ; Variations on a theme by Joseph Haydn, op. 56a (17:17) / Brahms ; Tergi i vezzosi rai (from Acide) (6:09) / Haydn ; Che faro senza Euridice (from Orfeo) (4:04) / Gluck ; Overture to Le nozze di Figaro (4:16) ; Non più andrai (3:53) ; Vedro mentr'io sospiro (from Le nozze di Figaro) (4:48) ; La ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni) (3:13) / Mozart ; Intermission features: "How can a miserable person write happy music?" -- Tape 2. Intermission continued: "Playing it by ear" ; Variations on "La ci darem la mano," op. 2 (16:44) / Chopin ; Suite no. 4 in G, op. 61 "Mozartiana" (22:11) / Tchaikovsky.
Call Number
*LVBSP 3
OCLC
NYPG04-F805
Title
Mostly Mozart Festival opening [videorecording] / Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts ; Mostly Mozart Festival, Gerard Schwartz, conductor ; Live from Lincoln Center ; directed by Kirk Browning ; produced by John Goberman.
Imprint
New York, N.Y. : WNET, 1994.
Performer
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra ; Gerard Schwarz, conductor ; Thomas Hampson, baritone ; Korliss Uecker, soprano ; Shura Cherkassky, piano ; Martin Bookspan, commentator ; Hugh Downs, host.
Credits
Writer, Danny Abelson.
Event
Recorded at Alice Tully Hall, New York, N.Y., and telecast live by WNET as part of its series Live from Lincoln Center, on July 6, 1994.
Added Author
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn.
Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809. Acide e Galatea Tergi i vezzosi rai.
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orfeo ed Euridice. Che farò senza Euridice.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Nozze di Figaro. Ouverture.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Nozze di Figaro. Non più andrai farfallone.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Nozze di Figaro. Vedrò, mentr'io sospiro.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Don Giovanni. Là ci darem la mano.
Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Là ci darem la mano.
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Suites, orchestra, no. 4, op. 61, G major.
Schwarz, Gerard, 1947- Conductor. Interviewee
Browning, Kirk, 1921-2008. Director
Goberman, John. Producer
Hampson, Thomas. Performer
Uecker, Korliss. Performer
Cherkassky, Shura. Performer
Shaffer, Peter, 1926-2016. Commentator
Gardner, Howard, 1943- Commentator
Levin, Robert D. Commentator
Marsalis, Wynton, 1961- Commentator
Downs, Hugh. Host
Bookspan, Martin. Commentator
Abelson, Danny, 1950- writing.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Producer
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Mostly Mozart Festival. Orchestra. Performer
Added Title
Backstage at Lincoln Center (Television program). 104.
How can a miserable person write happy music?
Playing it by ear.
Gift of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Research Call Number
*LVBSP 3
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