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Music makes a city

Title

Music makes a city / Owsley Brown presents ; directors, Jerome Hiler, Owsley Brown III ; writer, Jerome Hiler ; editors, Anne Flatté, Nathaniel Dorsky ; producers, Robin Burke, Owsley Brown III ; production manager, Don Simandl ; executive producers, Owsley Brown III, Gill Holland.

Publication

[Louisville, Ky.] : Owsley Brown, [2010]
©2010

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Moving image	Use in library	*LDV 1887 [notes]	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Moving image	Use in library	*LDV 1887	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Description

2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences; 4 3/4 in.
1 booklet (22 pages : illustrations) ;

Summary

In the late 1940s, an orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky was about to go out of business. At that point, a new mayor stepped into office whose views about civic vitality were founded on the ideas of the Chinese sage Confucius. His vision of prosperity was focused on making the arts available to every citizen of the city. Music Makes a City tells the rousing, inspiring, nearly unbelievable story of an American city and its orchestra.

Alternative Title

American orchestra's untold story

Subjects

Genre/Form

Feature films.
Documentary films.
Historical films.
Nonfiction films.

Note

"Our special edition is a limited pre-release DVD for Louisville. It contains wonderful bonus material that will not be included in the PBS release"--Accompanying documentation.

Credits (note)

Principal cinematography, Marcel Cabréra, Jerome Hiler ; musical direction, Jerome Hiler.

System Details (note)

DVD NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital, stereo compatible.

Contents

Disc 1. The flood ; Founding the orchestra ; Whitney is hired ; First rehearsal ; Early years ; Charles Farnsley ; New ideas, new music ; Malpiero: Piano concerto ; Martha Graham: Judith ; Carnegie Hall ; Voice of America ; Rockefeller grants ; Carter: Variations ; William Mootz, music critic ; Dedicated players ; Farnsley's success ; HUAC ; Triumph of St. Joan ; Chou: Fallen petals ; Louisville resistance ; Nadia Boulanger ; Music wars; Farbenspiel ; Foss: A parable of death ; Childrens concerts ; Soviet visitors ; Focus on recordings ; Farnsley retires ; Whitney retires ; Shapero: Credo ; Credits -- Disc 2. Special features: bonus interviews. Composers: Elliott Carter ; Gunther Schuller ; Harold Shapero ; Joan Tower ; Chou Wen-Chung ; Norman Dello Joio ; Ned Rorem. Orchestra: Jorge Mester ; Ruth Scott French ; Sidney Harth ; Lee Luvisi ; Marilyn Willoughby ; Dr. Stephen Plank. Community: Dr. J. Blaine Hudson ; Janet Eilber ; Dann Byck, Jr. ; Douglass Farnsley ; Curtis Dewees ; William Mootz ; Trailer.

Call Number

*LDV 1887

LCCN

811063011090

OCLC

709894827

Title

Publisher

[Louisville, Ky.] : Owsley Brown, [2010]

Copyright Date

Playing Time

014000

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Physical Medium

4 3/4 in.

Digital File Characteristics

video file DVD video region 1

System Details

DVD NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital, stereo compatible.

Performer

Narrated by Will Oldham.

Credits

Principal cinematography, Marcel Cabréra, Jerome Hiler ; musical direction, Jerome Hiler.

Added Author

Oldham, Will, narrator.

Hiler, Jerome, screenwriter.

Brown, Owsley, III, film producer.

Holland, Gill, 1964- film producer.

Burke, Robin, film producer.

Other Standard Identifier

811063011090

Research Call Number

*LDV 1887

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