San Francisco Symphony | Keeping Score - Full Episodes
Keeping Score | Aaron Copland and the American Sound (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT)
In the early 20th century, the sounds of America burst upon the world with jazz, blues, spirituals, folk, Latin and the sounds of Tin Pan Alley – each of them defining a different musical experience of being American. Aaron Copland listened and absorbed everything around him. Filmed on location in New York, Brooklyn, and Prague, this episode visits the places and explores the ideas that shaped Aaron Copland’s life and music.
Bonus Features:
Full-length concert performance of Copland's Appalachian Spring by the San Francisco Symphony originally filmed in high-definition 16:9 widescreen and 5.1 surround sound.
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Keeping Score | Charles Ives: Holidays Symphony (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT)
American composer Charles Ives created his Holidays Symphony as a haunting sonic portrait of New England at the turn of the 20th century, at turns sentimental and chaotic. Michael Tilson Thomas explores the riddle of Ives the loyal son and businessman versus Ives the musical maverick who made listeners confront their understanding of what music could be. Filmed on location in New England and New York City.
Bonus Features:
Full-length concert performance of Ives' Holidays Symphony by the San Francisco Symphony originally filmed in high-definition 16:9 widescreen and 5.1 surround sound.
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Keeping Score | Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT)
The Fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich is the story of a fall from grace and redemption. Shostakovich was the golden boy composer until, virtually overnight, his patriotism was questioned and condemned in the most public way possible. Written in 1937 in Stalinist Russia, the Fifth Symphony marked his triumphant return. But the question remains: what did the composer mean to say with this enigmatic music? In scenes filmed in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony offer clues to unlocking Shostakovich’s musical secrets and make the case for how this symphony may have saved his life.
Bonus Features:
Full-length concert performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 by the San Francisco Symphony originally filmed in high-definition 16:9 widescreen and 5.1 surround sound at London's Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms concert series.
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Keeping Score | Gustav Mahler: Origins (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT)
The first of two episodes explores the roots of Gustav Mahler’s music. SFS Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas journeys to rural Bohemia to rediscover the inspirations of Mahler’s music, and traces Mahler’s life through the premiere of his first symphony in 1888. It shocked the contemporary audience, but as MTT and the San Francisco Symphony reveal, on location and in performance, this ground-breaking symphony contains elements of everything else that Mahler composed. Shot on location in the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, and in performance in San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall.
Bonus Features:
Full-length concert performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 by the San Francisco Symphony originally filmed in high-definition 16:9 widescreen and 5.1 surround sound.
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Keeping Score | Gustav Mahler: Legacy (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT)
In part two of Keeping Score: Mahler, MTT examines Mahler’s creative growth, from the 1890s to his death at the age of 51 on May 18, 1911, including his symphonies, the Rückert songs and Das Lied von der Erde. The show charts Mahler’s mercurial career as a conductor, from the Vienna Opera to Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as his tempestuous relationship with his wife Alma. At Mahler’s simple grave in a Grinzing cemetery, MTT explains why Mahler has so profoundly affected his own life. Shot on location in the Czech Republic, Austria, New York, and in performance in San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall.
Bonus Features:
Full-length concert performance by the San Francisco Symphony of A Mahler Journey. Featuring selected movements of Mahler's Symphonies 5 (Adagietto), 7 (Scherzo), 9 (Rondo burleske), and Songs of Wayfarer with baritone Thomas Hampson. Originally filmed in high-definition 16:9 widescreen and 5.1 surround sound.
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Keeping Score | Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT)
Almost a hundred years ago, Igor Stravinsky shocked the Western world with his ballet score, The Rite of Spring, a highly charged and confrontational piece. Michael Tilson Thomas goes behind the scenes in St. Petersburg and Paris to discover the spirit in which it was written and the drama of the opening night that shook the music world to its foundations.
Bonus Features:
Full-length concert performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and music from The Firebird by the San Francisco Symphony originally filmed in high-definition 16:9 widescreen and 5.1 surround sound.
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Keeping Score | Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT)
With Symphonie fantastique, Hector Berlioz confessed his unique artistic vision. It was a symphonic love letter, part psychological self-portrait, part fantasy about the life of an artist, and it expressed his passion for a beautiful woman. Michael Tilson Thomas searches for the inspirations of Berlioz and his music, from his roots in the French Alps to the theater in Paris where the work was premiered, and reveals the musical secrets of this greatest of Romantic symphonies.
Bonus Features:
Full-length concert performance of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique by the San Francisco Symphony originally filmed in high-definition 16:9 widescreen and 5.1 surround sound.
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Keeping Score | Ludwig van Beethoven: Eroica (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT)
Two hundred years ago, Beethoven rewrote the rules of music when he premiered his Eroica Symphony, describing through music his own personal experiences. Filmed on location in and around Vienna, the episode explores what shaped Beethoven and the Eroica: his life story, his deafness, his rivals and patrons, and what makes the music so powerful still.
Bonus Features:
Full-length concert performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica by the San Francisco Symphony originally filmed in high-definition 16:9 widescreen and 5.1 surround sound.
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Keeping Score | Piotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT)
The Making of a Performance, is an engrossing documentary that demystifies how a performance of a great piece of classical music is created. It is a viewer’s “behind-the-scenes” pass to witness firsthand how a performance unfolds and the preparation it takes to play this music. Along the way, MTT explores the symphony’s four movements, providing commentary on the powerful emotions embodied in the music and how it speaks to audiences today. MTT also introduces many of the personable members of the orchestra.
Bonus Features:
Full-length concert performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 by the San Francisco Symphony originally filmed in high-definition 16:9 widescreen and 5.1 surround sound.
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