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I-Net Video ~ The Arts
Uncommon videos of Common Interest





(Some of these videos are poor in quality but rich in content. If the link doesn't work, you can google the title or subject.)


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Music

Benjamin Zander on the transformative power of classical music.  

Jonathan conducts Beethoven's 5th at age 3  In case you don't believe in the transformative power of classical music, behold Jonathan! At age 4, he was invited to conduct the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in Torrance, CA in LIVE performance. Thank goodness he didn't fall of the stage at the end. He now has his own YouTube channel.

JoAnn Faletta  If 3-year-old conductors are rare, so are women conductors. Here is one of the first.

Pluto the Unpredictable: An Improvisation by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic  Sounds like an oxymoron--improvisation by a philharmonic. But while on the subject of conductors...

Leonard Bernstein Young People's Concert (1958)  The Meaning of Music  Now we put "conductors" and "young people" together with this remarkable Carnegie Hall event, which I watched on TV as a child along with the series that followed. (See side panel for parts 2-4)
Andre Rieu & 3 year old violinist, Akim Camara
and a 4-year old pianist. Two more delightful prodigies inspired by music.

Artur Rubenstein  My own love of music came through the fingers of Artur Rubinstein, whom I listened to for hours in my teens. From young musicians, to a musician at 90:
Rubinstein at 90 interview  

The Landfill Harmonic-60 minutes  Amazing what you can learn from fellow travelers in an airport shuttle (who told me about this). More amazing is the story itself. More on this story: The Landfill Harmonic 


Dance


Anna Pavlova as the Dying Swan 1905  The world's greatest classical ballerina performs this scene from "Swan Lake," choreographed by Mikhail Fokine.

Rudolph Nureyev solo debut on American TV  1963 

Nureyev and Fontaine: A 20th Century Love Affair Exquisite scenes of the 20th century's most famous ballet pair.

The Tales of Beatrix Potter
  This is a charming ballet version of the beloved stories by Frederic Ashton and the Royal Ballet. This is just a preview, available through YouTube for $2.99. I highly recommend it! Especially if you have children.

American Ballet Theater - A History

Gene Kelly - "I'm singing in the rain"  One of the great dancers of American musical films in his most memorable scene, along with another with Donald O'Connor in the same film.

Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly  The two greats in a little known sketch.

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 1936  This is the couple that sent everyone off to ballroom dancing lessons! Here they are in the 1949 Barkleys of Broadway.


Patrick Swayze (One Last Dance) dances with his wife, Lisa Nieme  This dance has added poignancy, knowing that the couple would be separated by his death from cancer at age 57.

Literature

Dante - The Divine Comedy Interpretations

Gabriel Garcia Marquez  The great Columbian writer, Nobel prize winner, remembered.

Marilyn Robinson  “It’s as if, in writing it, she broke through the ordinary human condition with all its dissatisfactions, and achieved a kind of transfiguration,” wrote Anatole Broyard of her first book Housekeeping, quoted in the Paris Review. She is interviewed here at Georgetown.

Isabel Allende: A Literary Life  National Geographic interview with another Latin American writer. Also interviewed here by David Frost.

Sue Monk Kidd--Life is a Story  The author of The Secret Life of Bees speaks about her life as a writer.

Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home 

The Mystery of Agatha Christie  The life of the much-loved  crime writer explored through David Suchet, who for 25 years has played her Inspector Poirot.

A Man Called Lamour  More than any other writer, I learned from Louis Lamour to appreciate the West.

Journey Through History with David McCullough  The author of 1776, John Adams and other historical classics speaks with Morley Safer on 60 minutes.


Art and Architecture

The Homes of Frank Lloyd Wright

Iwan Baan: Ingenious homes in unexpected places
 

Environments Change Behavior  Bill Strickland, builder, innovator, educator, MacArthur Award winner, is the creative mind behind the Manchester Bidwell Project.

Transforming the Workplace for a Rising Economy of Free-lancers

Florence's Restoration Project   Decades after Florence's 
great flood an art hospital renews its art treasures.

The Crumbling Picture-perfect Town That's Making a come-back  There are just seven year-round residents in the Medieval Italian town of Civita di Bagnoregio, also known as the dying city.  PBS.

Design and the Elastic Mind 2008  Charlie Rose interviews Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at NY's Museum of Modern Art about an exhibition that draws on latest ideas in biology, physics and other fields.



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