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New! Hofesh Shechter's Clowns 29 min.

London-based Israeli dancer, choreographer, and composer Hofesh Shechter has been named as one of The Stage's 100 most influential people in theater since 2016, has been nominated for a Tony Award for Best Choreography, and received the OBE for his contributions to the arts. Clowns is a dance film that is a macabre comedy of murder and desire, asking how far will we go in the name of entertainment...

Formats: DVDStreaming Copyright Date: 2022

New! Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! 91 min.

British choroeographer Matthew Bourne has won numerous awards for his dance productions and choreography, including the Laurence Olivier Award, Tony Awards, and Drama Desk Awards. This is Bourne's new production of The Nutracker, which follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from Christmas Eve at Dr. Dross’s Orphanage, through a shimmering winter wonderland, to the scrumptious candy kingdom of Sweetie...

Formats: DVDStreaming Copyright Date: 2022

New! Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands (American Masters) 113 min.

Explore the life, career, art and legacy of the African American contralto and civil rights pioneer Marian Anderson. Anchored by key performances in her career, Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands shows how her quiet genius and breathtaking voice set the stage for Black performers in classical music, and a louder voice for civil rights.

Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2022

New! Hans van Manen - Moving to Music 53 min.

This is a portrait of the Dutch choreographer, filmed for his 90th birthday. Hans van Manen´s ballets are being performed by some 50 companies around the world. He choreographs formally, is concerned with clarity of shape, motif and development, and is specially interested in gender and sexuality, role play, conflict, and arousal rather than in the ideal of heterosexual romance. For a celebration...

Formats: DVDStreaming Copyright Date: 2022

New! Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes 112 min.

Discover the life and music of jazz luminary Ron Carter, the most recorded bassist in history. Featuring original concert footage and candid interviews with jazz legends such as Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins and Jon Batiste, Finding the Right Notes is a vibrant portrait of one of America's great musical trailblazers.

Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2022

Joana Mallwitz Conducts Mozart and Tchaikovsky 55 min.

Joana Mallwitz already occupies an exceptional position as one of the young shooting stars of conductors. At 27, she was Europe's youngest general music director; in 2019 the magazine Opernwelt chose her as "Conductor of the Year"; her debut in 2020 at the Salzburg Festival with Mozart's Così fan tutte was acclaimed; and as of the 2023/24 season she will become chief conductor of the Konzerthausor...

Formats: DVDStreaming Copyright Date: 2021

Rivalry in Music: Schönberg vs. Stravinsky 53 min.

At the beginning of the 20th century there were two celebrated liberators of music who were the complete opposite of each other: the stylishly nonchalant Igor Stravinsky who revolutionized the musical field from the rhythm-section on the one hand – and on the other the smart and world-weary Arnold Schönberg with his visionary 12-tone-music. What started as a respectful meeting of two composers soo...

Crazy Days - Or Making an Opera in Pandemic Times 67 min.

Autumn 2020. An international cast arrives in Amsterdam for the rehearsals of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro by Dutch National Opera. Hundreds of people have been working on it for three years and the performances are sold out. The young up-and-coming vocalists, the orchestra, the costume and set designers — everyone is ready. Not even a pandemic could stop this opera train. But the measures are stri...

Electronic Vibrations 52 min.

Whether techno or hip-hop – electronic music is nowadays the driving force of pop culture. We have almost forgotten that its origins lie in the WDR’s electronic studio, which made Cologne into one of the centres of the avant-garde during the post-war years. This program is the story of how a room full of strange devices would become a cabinet of curiosities, the vibrations of which sent the whole...

The Sound Weavers: Ludovico Einaudi, Hauschka, Joep Beving, Hania Rani 54 min.

This documentary traces the successful phenomenon of this neo-classical music form and investigates its origins. What makes the form so popular? Is the music ingenious or simply comforting? Are they Mozarts 2.0 or rather maestros for the masses? Do they build a bridge to the musical past, allowing our ears to walk comfortably in "familiar territory"? This program portrays some of the most succ...

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