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Publisher
SFS Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
" 'I feel, therefore I am.' For Hector Berlioz, and for the Romantic movement he personified, those were words to live by. But with the unprecedented outpouring of emotion in his Symphonie fantastique he almost overpowered Paris. This orchestral sonic spectacular, written to win the heart of a beautiful actress, demanded sacrifice from its author and his audience. From romantic daydreams to deadly displays of devotion, the symphony relates an 'episode...
3983) Heavy metal in Baghdad
Publisher
Arts Alliance America
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Follows Acrassicauda, the only heavy metal band in Iraq, as they struggle daily to stay alive and stay together as a band in their war-torn country.
3984) Sweet smell of success
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Burt Lancaster stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis is Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister.
3987) Playing for time
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Fania Fenelon is a Jewish cabaret singer in Paris during the Nazi invasion. Fania and thousands of other Jewish and political prisoners are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She and a group of other classical musicians are spared from death in exchange for performing music for their captors. They are also ordered to play for the thousands being herded to the gas chambers, a 'humane' means of easing the condemned into the next world.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A true tale that took 50 years to tell, The Lost Weekend: A Love Story follows John Lennon and Yoko Ono's personal assistant, May Pang as she recounts her 18-month relationship with John--a relationship orchestrated by Yoko herself. During this extraordinary period, May helped John reunite with his son Julian and participated firsthand in his most productive period post-Beatles in which he released albums like "Mind Games", "Walls and Bridges", and...
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The author shares their life as a genderqueer person, living in the American South, revealing their own personal struggle for acceptance and how they were inspired by these historical LGBTQIA+ people to live their own truth. Featuring biographies of Mary Jones, We'wha, Magnus Hirschfeld, Dr. Pauli Murray, Wilmer "Little Axe" M. Broadnax, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Carlett Brown, Nancy Cardenas, Ifti Nasim, and Simon Nkoli.
Series
Publisher
Weston Woods Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Celebrate African American history with this historic collection of stories. Collection includes: Rosa ; Henry's freedom box ; Lincoln and Douglass ; and, Ellington was not a street. Bonus interview with Nikki Giovanni. Bonus interview with Ellen Levine.
"Rosa" : On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus and refused to give up her seat to a white man. Iconographic (14 minutes) / Lexile [registered trademark] : 900L /...
Series
Publisher
SFS Media
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Includes a documentary hosted by the San Francisco Symphony's music director Michael Tilson Thomas, who discusses the drama, pathos, elation, and despair embodied in Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony; the documentary features interviews with musicians as it takes the viewer behind the scenes to experience the preparation that goes into a performance of the piece. Also includes a live performance of the complete Tchaikovsky 4th by the San Francisco Symphony,...
3995) A tickle in the heart
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Follows three traveling Klezmer musicians as they tour the places of their past, including Florida, Poland, and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Shows the three brothers -- Max, Julie and Willie Epstein -- discussing their past and handling the nuts and bolts of their business: booking dates, haggling over fees, and performing at retirement homes and synagogue functions.
Author
Publisher
Rush Doc Films, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Rush is one of rock's most influential bands. Ranked third in consecutive gold or platinum albums after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the band enjoys a devoted following by legions around the world and is revered by generations of musicians. Yet, their incredible success story has, up to this point, remained largely untold. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with some of today's most respected rock artists, Rush:...
Publisher
KULTUR International Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"By 1939, 30,000 intellectuals and radicals were exiled from Europe, 80% were Jewish. These dramatic events sent many of the greatest minds of the 20th century into exile in the United States. The manna of creative intensity that hovered over Berlin in the 20's, -- in music, art, theater and film -- that glow of aesthetic productivity was extinguished. In some ways, Los Angeles of the 30's and early 40's may be seen as its afterglow...when scores...