 | Sun Ra - A Joyful Noise [VHS]
SUN RA Director:ROBERT MUGGE
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One of jazz music's most entertaining and eccentric figures is profiled in Robert Mugge's hourlong, 1980 profile of the late bandleader-keyboardist-composer Sun Ra. "I don't consider myself one of the humans," he once said. "I'm a spiritual being," who was reputed to eschew the... |
 | Don Quixote / Baryshnikov, Harvey, American Ballet Theatre [VHS]
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV CYNTHIA HARVEY RICHARD SCHAFER BRIAN ADAMS MELISSA ALLEN Director:BRIAN LARGE
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Terrific ballet!!:This particular ballet is what hooked me on ballet. I had watched Swan Lake and was so bored that I fell asleep. Swan Lake reminds me of the philosophy "the Emperor has no clothes". I was ready to swear off ballet until I rented Don Quixote from my local li... |
 | Ireland's Golden Voice [VHS]
FRANK PATTERSON & THE CASSIDY BROTHERS
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Beautiful scenery and beautiful voice:I saw this video on PBS earlier this year and it is truly a masterpiece. The scenes included Grand Canyon with the song, "Wind Beneath my Wings" which was outstanding. I would very much like to find this video. |
 | Frank Patterson - World of Music [VHS]
FRANK PATTERSON
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The famed Irish tenor Frank Patterson is remembered in this production that features concert performances as well as brief interview segments with friends and family members. His widow, Eily O'Grady Patterson, provides personal anecdotes, as does Patterson's son Eanan, who is als... |
 | Michael Jackson: HIStory: Video Greatest Hits [VHS]
MICHAEL JACKSON SIMON FIELDS TRACI GUNS IMAN MICHAEL DELORENZO Director:JOHN LANDIS
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EXCELLENT:Excellent collection of Michael's videos. My brohter bought a copy and I watched it and loved it so much I bought my own. Yea Michael Jackson! |
 | Backstreet Boys The Video [VHS]
BACKSTREET BOYS
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1996 scrapbk w/ home movies, never-before-seen interviews, excerpts fr. appearances on Viva & MTV, performance, & 5 c lips: We've Got It Goin' On, Anywhere For You, I'll Never Break Your Heart, more. 55 min. Dolby. |
 | Woodstock: Lost Performances [VHS]
MELANIE (IV) JOHN SEBASTIAN JANIS JOPLIN JOE COCKER STEPHEN STILLS Director:MICHAEL WADLEIGH
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THIS IS A TWO-PART VIDEO RELEASE:Should be noted : this is a two part video release.
Total running time is 168 Minutes:
I just got part one only, contains performances by:
Richie Havens , Joan Baez , The Who & Joe Cocker- simply fades to
black at the end of tape ( 68 mins)-
... |
 | Pink Floyd - The Wall [VHS]
BOB GELDOF CHRISTINE HARGREAVES JAMES LAURENSON ELEANOR DAVID KEVIN MCKEON Director:ALAN PARKER
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By any rational measure, Alan Parker's cinematic interpretation of Pink Floyd: The Wall is a glorious failure. Glorious because its imagery is hypnotically striking, frequently resonant, and superbly photographed by the gifted cinematographer Peter Biziou. And a failure because ... |
 | Bizet - Carmen / Levine, Baltsa, Carreras, Metropolitan Opera [VHS]
AGNES BALTSA JOSEP CARRERAS SAMUEL RAMEY LEONA MITCHELL MYRA MERRITT Director:BRIAN LARGE
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"Love so right, can turn out to be so wrong" or "Games people play"!:This is a fine MET production from 1988 (omg, I remember the first time I watched it on TV... now I feel old!)
Many people know the story of Carmen- it has be imitated, duplicated, made into movies, operas, mus... |
 | Nutcracker on Ice [VHS]
OKSANA BAIUL VIKTOR PETRENKO
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Superb skating:Oksana Baiul deserved every honor as Olympic champion. This is a prime demonstration of her artistry. Understanding the art of figure skating, this aspect alone deserves 5 stars. The rest of the cast are excellent too. One critical observation is that the costu... |
 | Leoncavallo - Pagliacci [VHS]
TERESA STRATAS PLáCIDO DOMINGO JUAN PONS ALBERTO RINALDI (III) FLORINDO ANDREOLLI Director:FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI
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Amazing Zefirelli and Domingo!:Franco Zefirelli makes here an astonishing film adaptation of Leocavallo`s famed opera. Though using scenarios sometimes, the settings are convincing and give another dimension to what was to be carried out in an opera stage. The production surely a... |
 | Les McCann & Eddie Harris: Swiss Movement [VHS]
LES MCCANN
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Les McCann & Eddie Harris: Swiss Movement:It is great to see Eddie Harris to perform live. He was a phenomenal tenor saxophonist. All the musicians are great on this VHS and this is a must have for all Eddie Harris fans. |
 | The Story of Jazz [VHS]
VARIOUS ARTISTS
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Produced as the title segment to a six-part series, this 90-minute documentary traces the evolution of jazz from its 19th-century origins in New Orleans's Congo Square, where slaves first introduced American listeners to the complex rhythms and earthy textures of African music. ... |
 | N the Mix [VHS]
*NSYNC N SYNC
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Late '90s contender in the time-honored sweepstakes for teen idolatry, 'N Sync is best explained by the late blues sage Willie Dixon: "The men don't know, but the little girls understand." The quintet's buoyant dance pop, chopped and channeled to weld post-New Jack rhythms with c... |
 | Sleeping Beauty [VHS]
TCHAIKOVSKY KIROV BALLET
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It may be a truism to say that Russians interpret Russian music best, but based on this stunning Kirov Ballet performance taped during its 1989 Canadian tour, it's excitingly and exhilaratingly accurate. Tchaikovsky's ballet is brought to vividly atmospheric life by the compan... |
 | Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado (Stratford Festival) [VHS]
GIDON SAKS HENRY INGRAM ERIC DONKIN RICHARD MCMILLAN Director:NORMAN CAMPBELL
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A video of a 1982 performance at Canada's Stratford Festival (live, though with some singing dubbed), this is very much a theatrical experience, with the buoyancy of a show played before an audience. The cast and spectators take obvious pleasure in each other, and in classic G... |
 | Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Royal Albert Hall Celebration [VHS]
TINA ARENA MICHAEL BALL ANTONIO BANDERAS KEITH DUFFY (II) STEPHEN GATELY Director:DAVID MALLET
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In 1998 a concert at the Royal Albert Hall celebrated Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday and featured more than two hours of hits from a body of work spanning almost three decades. In this keepsake of a memorable night, star after star steps on to a massive, Eurovision-st... |
 | Kiri Te Kanawa - In Concert [VHS]
RICHARD BONYNGE GEORG SOLTI JEFFREY TATE JOAN SUTHERLAND MELVYN BRAGG Director:NIGEL WATTIS
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Kiri Te Kanawa inspires a kind of affection that is accorded to few prima donnas, for the warmth and expressiveness of her singing, for her natural ease in operatic roles, and particularly for a sunny, outgoing personality that is clearly projected in her stage presence. Both ... |
 | Tap Dancing: Beginners [VHS]
HENRY LE TANG HONI COLES
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What I think:Just what I wanted. One number, 4 steps and a break, running time about 25 minutes. I think it will take me 18-24 months to master this! |
 | Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back [VHS]
BOB DYLAN ALBERT GROSSMAN BOB NEUWIRTH JOAN BAEZ ALAN PRICE
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When acclaimed documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker (Monterey Pop, The War Room) filmed Bob Dylan during a three week concert tour of England in the Spring in 1965, he had no idea he was about to create one of the most intimate glimpses of the rock legend ever put on film. Want... |
