Secondary & College / Music

This program introduces and defines folk music and presents examples from important periods in American history - from the early Colonial days...
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Produced on location in Baton Rouge, Gatemouth Brown features Gatemouth and His Gate’s Express performing live in front of an enthusiastic...
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A joyous 1977 program celebrating a remarkable talent, Elizabeth Swados, author, composer and performer. Elizabeth is young and bursting with...
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This portrait pays tribute to a unique band whose music recalls the sound of the ragtime and jazz bands of the early 1920’s. Through extensive...
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There are eight of them, eight children from every corner of the planet.  Some live in China; others in India; others still in Mali.  As...
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Kostadin is eleven, and he plays a sort of flute known as a kaval.  He loves his country’s folk music and has formed a group with other children...
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Lucumi is ten and lives in Havana’s black district.  Brought up to the beat of drums, he dreams of becoming a great rumbero.  With other...
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A portrait of Mahalia Jackson, queen of the gospels, who spread the religious music of American blacks from congregations in small churches to vast...
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Using both animation and live photography, this program explores the many variations of the canon. The audience learns to identify the sounds of the...
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A combination of live-action photography and elaborate animation shows the score of Johann Sebastian Bach's Fugue in G Minor being performed. A Coronet release.
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Niam is twelve.  He had been abandoned by his parents in the streets of Bamako but was taken in by Cekili Diabate, a good and generous...
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"The No-Guitar Blues" follows young Fausto Sanchez on his weekend-long quest to earn enough money to buy a guitar. The manner in which he obtains the...
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