Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty

An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her,...

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée (The Wayward Daughter) is one of the choreographer's most joyous and colourful creations. Inspired by...

The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #9 was of a concert on March 22, 1952, at Carnegie Hall,...

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his...

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.

Documentary on conductor Herbert van Karajan, focusing on his early adoption of audio and video recording technology and his impetus to make use of...

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers,...

This film speaks to the uniquely inherent traits that drummers and percussionists possess as natural explorers of music and sound, and how this...

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other...