Tells the stories of the lives of six great composers, including Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Shostakovich, and Dvorak, and features excerpts from their music.
When a famed Russian composer is rumored to be returning to his homeland to conduct his last symphony, a line begins forming in front of a ticket booth and the people in it begin their extended wait for the day tickets go on sale. During their time with one another, these strangers form a sort of miniature community that becomes bound by all its inhabitants' hope that they can see something they never have before.
A biography of eighteenth-century Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, discussing his childhood, his talent as a composer and musician, his tumultuous career and personal life, and his early death.
Profiles the twenty-two twentieth-century American composers chosen as "mavericks" for the June 2000 San Francisco Symphony American Mavericks festival--including figures ranging from Duke Ellington to Frank Zappa--and provides a CD of performances and conversations with artists at the festival.
In 1972, four talented songwriters are thrown together to create a series of short, educational songs that will be played during a television network's Saturday morning cartoons, and as the artists try to unlock their creativity, they are inspired to change the world and bring out the best in each other and the children they are hoping to reach.
Chronicles the life of composer Richard Rodgers and discusses his childhood in Harlem, his work with lyricist Lorenz Hart, his partnership with Oscar Hammerstein, and other related topics.
Fourteen-year-old Anna Maria dal Violin, a foundling raised at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice, receives training from violin master and priest Antonio Vivaldi, but even the difficulties of trying to play Vivaldi's music cannot keep Anna from her quest to search the city for information about her parents whom she has been told are dead.
