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A Wayfarer's Journey: Listening to Mahler
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Call Number: DVD 2008-29
Description: Mahler's music is used as innovative therapy at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Also includes Conductor Christopher Eschenbach's own memories of recovering from wartime trauma.
Keywords: Mahler; Ruth Yorkin Drazen; Music Therapy; Cancer

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
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Call Number: DVD 2009-200
Description: "Live performances of the American jazz vocalist
Keywords: Robbie Cavolina; Ian McCrudden; Biographical

At the Jazz Band Hall: early hot jazz, song and dance 1925-1933
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Call Number: DVD 2002- 11
Description: Collection of film clips of jazz performances
Keywords: Jazz

Basie, Gillespie, Coltrane (Jazz Casual Productions)
Series Title: Jazz Casual
Call Number: DVD 2002- 12
Description: 3 episodes of "Jazz Casual;" including interviews & performances
Keywords: Jazz

Beaux Arts at 50
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Call Number: DVD 2008-95
Description: Celebrating their 50th anniversary, the trio recreated their triumphant public debut, which took place on July 13, 1955 featuring three of Beethoven's cherished trios. (Menahem Pressler, piano ; Daniel Hope, violin ; Antonion Meneses, cello)
Keywords: Beaux Arts Trio

Benny Goodman
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Call Number: VCR 95- 2
Description: Big Band Series
Keywords: Big Band

Billboards
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Call Number: VCR 96- 66
Description: Collaboration between Prince and Joffrey Ballet
Keywords: Popular Music; Ballet

Bridges to Babylon
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Call Number: DVD 2002- 16
Description: Film of the Rolling Stones' 1997-98 tour
Keywords: Rock and Pop

Christmas with Luciano Pavarotti
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Call Number: VCR 2006- 30
Description: Pavarotti's 1988 Christmas concert, performed in Montreal?s spectacular Notre Dame Cathedral
Keywords: Christmas Music; Luciano Pavarotti

Festino of Adriano Banchieri
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Call Number: VCR 2002- 32
Description: Fully staged recreation of Banchieri's madrigal "Festino"
Keywords: Adriano Banchieri

Four Seasons
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Call Number: VCR 89- 2
Description: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin is the soloist and narrator who reads Vivaldi?s poems which describe the scenes he set to music
Keywords: Vivaldi; Yehudi Menuhin

Gimme Shelter
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Call Number: VCR 2000- 84
Description: 1969 concert featuring the Rolling Stones, Tina Turner
Keywords: Popular Music

Ginsberg Sings Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience
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Call Number: DVD 2007- 5
Description: A concert of 30 songs highlighting poems originally spun by William Blake, with inspired new melodies crafted by the poet Allen Ginsberg
Keywords: William Blake; Allen Ginsberg

Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric
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Call Number: DVD 2008-88
Description:
Keywords: Tom Beghin; Sander M. Goldberg; 18th Century

Histoire du Soldat
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Call Number: VCR 2005-103
Description: Presents part 2 of a choreographed stage presentation of Igor Stravinsky?s, "Story of a Soldier"
Keywords: Stravinsky, Igor

Hullabaloo: a 1960s music flashback (Vol. 1-4)
Series Title: Hullabaloo
Call Number: DVD 2002- 14
Description: 7 episodes of "Hullabaloo," plus 18 bonus performances
Keywords: Rock and Pop

Last Waltz
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Call Number: DVD 2002- 23
Description: Farewell concert of "The Band"; includes interviews
Keywords: Rock and Pop

Lilith Fair: a celebration of women in music
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Call Number: DVD 2005- 5
Description: Includes concert as well as behind-the scenes documentary footage and interviews
Keywords: Popular Music; Women in Music

McRae, Torm?, Rushing (Jazz Casual Productions)
Series Title: Jazz Casual
Call Number: DVD 2002- 13
Description: 3 episodes of "Jazz Casual;" including interviews & performances
Keywords: Jazz

Music Scene: the best of 1969-1970
Series Title: Music Scene
Call Number: DVD 2002- 15
Description: 4 episodes of "The Music Scene" plus 21 bonus performances
Keywords: Rock and Pop

Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television
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Call Number: DVD 2009-12
Description: Interviews with composers; v. 1: David Behrman; v.2: Philip Glass; v.3: Alvin Lucier; v.4: Gordon Mumma; v.5: Pauline Oliveros; v.6: Terry Riley; v.7: Robert Ashley.
Keywords: Robert Ashley

OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music, 1948-1980
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Call Number: DVD 2007-100
Description: Accompanied by a booklet and two CDs with the call number CD 3721; features performances of electronic music works by various composers
Keywords: Electronic Music; Computer Music; Musique Concr?te

Pierre Boulez: Eclait; Sur Incises
Series Title: Juxtapositions
Call Number: DVD 2006-213
Description: Performances of Boulez's works "Eclait" and "Sur Incises;" includes "A Lesson By Pierre Boulez," in which Boulez explains "Sur Incises" to a young audience
Keywords: Pierre Boulez

Renaissance of Monteverdi
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Call Number: VCR 2002- 31
Description: Performance of a ballo from Madrigals of Love and War, w/ documentary
Keywords: Claudio Monteverdi

Rhythm of My Soul: Kentucky Roots Music
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Call Number: DVD 2008-35
Description: Follows great country stars from Kentucky including Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Patty Loveless, Ricky Skaggs, Bottom Line, The Carriere Family, The Howard Family, Warren May, Rob McNurlin & The Beatnik Cowboys, Don Rigsby, Lee Sexton, The Tri-City Messengers, Jesse Wells.
Keywords: Country Music; Blue Grass; Gospel; Roger Sherman; PBS

Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
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Call Number: VCR 2002-180
Description: Performances by Rolling Stones and other rock stars of the late 60s
Keywords: Rock and Roll

Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
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Call Number: VCR 2001- 1
Description: Vladimir Horowitz performs with the New York Philharmonic, 1978
Keywords: Piano; Horowitz

St. Matthew Passion
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Call Number: VCR 89- 3
Description: Concert in St. Thomas Church in Leipzig; in two parts (tapes)
Keywords: Bach

The Blues, a Musical Journey
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Call Number: DVD 2008-28
Description: Seven-part documentary film series exploring the evolution of the blues. Features rare archival performance footage of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon ... et al, and includes over 100 newly-filmed performances by contemporary artists such as B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Beck ... et al. singing classic blues songs.
Keywords: Blues; Martin Scorsese

Verdi Requiem
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Call Number: DVD 2006-243
Description: July 2000 performance, starring Renee Fleming, Olga Borodina, Andrea Bocelli, Ildebrando D?Arcangelo; Kirov Orchestra and Chorus; Valery Gergiev, conductor
Keywords: Giuseppe Verdi; Requiems

Wedding Cantata
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Call Number: VCR 2002- 40
Description: Includes commentary
Keywords: Charpentier

Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach
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Call Number: DVD 2006-236
Description: Presents cellist Yo-Yo Ma in collaborations with a variety of visual and dance artists, each involving Bach's six Cello Suites; 3 volumes
Keywords: Yo-Yo Ma; J.S. Bach; Cello Suites