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New! Aaron Copland: Dean of American Music 55 min.

Each year, Scott Yoo and his musician friends spend a month teaching students--just as Aaron Copland did over his career--carrying on the long musical tradition of masters teaching students, who become masters themselves. Together they’ll play the works of Copland, to discover how he drew from his Jewish roots, Modernism, and most importantly American folk music to invent the American sound.

Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2022

New! Amy Beach: American Romantic 54 min.

At Festival Mozaic, Scott Yoo and his wife, the flutist Alice Dade, get to know America’s greatest Romantic composer, Amy Beach, and European women composers of her time. Across the country, they explore Beach’s New England roots and career, in a time when polite society looked down on women composers. Despite this resistance, Beach was one of the first to try to invent a truly American music.

Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2022

New! Florence Price and the American Migration 54 min.

Scott Yoo follows the trail of Florence Price, who fled discrimination in the South for a new life in Chicago. Here, with pianist Michelle Cann, he explores Price’s music and African American influences, and learns from leading spiritual, gospel, blues and jazz musicians how plantation spirituals--a mixture of West African music and European hymns--shaped nearly all of American popular music.

Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2022

New! Great Performances: Now Hear This (Season 3) 240 min.

Join Scott Yoo, renowned violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, in Now Hear This, a new four-part documentary miniseries presented by Great Performances that merges music, storytelling, and travel, as he chases the secret histories of some of the greatest music ever written.

Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2022

New! New American Voices 55 min.

For the first time in Now Hear This, Scott Yoo meets and plays with living composers. In Chicago, legendary guitarist Sergio Assad shows him how the music of Brazil has helped his compositions become a staple of the classical canon. In San Francisco, Indian American Reena Esmail teaches him about the rhythms and scales of traditional Indian music, and how they inspire her signature sound.

Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2022

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

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

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

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

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