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1. | | Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Available on: Digital DownloadRomeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history. |
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2. | | The Story of Classical Music by Darren Henley Available on: Audio CD ($15.98) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($15.98)The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop.... |
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3. | | Christopher Marlowe by Sherwin T. Wine Available on: Digital Download ($4.95)In the world of Shakespeare was friend and competitor Christopher Marlow. Eldest son of a Canterbury shoemaker, Marlowe became famous as a translator and playwright. |
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4. | | Euripides by Sherwin T. Wine Available on: Digital Download ($4.95)The greatest century of Greek culture was the fifth century B.C. It is the century of the Persian Wars and the amazing victory of the Greeks over a formidable empire. |
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5. | | The History of Classical Music by Richard Fawkes Available on: Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Cassette | Digital DownloadFrom Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years... |
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6. | | Lives of the Musicians by Kathleen Krull Available on: Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($14.36) | Digital DownloadThis is no stuffy music appreciation lesson. Author Kathleen Krull makes these great artists come alive... |
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7. | | WNYC's Fishko Files Podcast by Sarah Fishko Available on: PodcastFrom WNYC, New York Public Radio, join WNYC's cultural attaché Sara Fishko for her personal radio essays on music, art, culture and media. |
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8. | | Moliere by Sherwin T. Wine Available on: Digital Download ($4.95)France under Louis XIV reached the peak of its power. Its culture bridged the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Moliére was the son of a successful upholsterer who became... |
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9. | | Paul Robeson: The Actor by Sheila Evans Available on: Digital Download ($13.99)Paul Robeson was a validictorian honor scholar, lawyer, writer, author, concert singer, humanitarian, linguist, and actor. |
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10. | | Samuel Beckett by Sherwin T. Wine Available on: Digital Download ($4.95)Poet, novelist and playwright Beckett embodied a radical response to the outrageous events of two world wars. |
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11. | | Handel As Orpheus by Ellen Harris Available on: Online VideoMIT Professor of Music Ellen Harris discusses Handel's chamber cantatas written from 1706-23, from a social point of view, exposing the exclusive and secret homosexual society in which they were created. |
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12. | | The Life of Mozart by Edward Holmes Available on: Audio CD ($35.99) | Digital Download | MP3 CDEdward Holmes, a schoolfellow of Keats, provides the first complete account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based upon Mozart's own letters and memoirs. |
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13. | | The Life and Works of Beethoven by Jeremy Siepmann Available on: Audio CD ($21.58) | Audio Cassette | Digital DownloadFor many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived... |
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14. | | Royal Courts of Europe by Sherwin T. Wine Available on: Digital Download ($4.95)When Mozart was born, Europe was dominated by wealthy and powerful monarchies, with their kings and aristocrats. What we call 'Classical Music' emerged in the royal courts of these kingdoms. |
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15. | | Pavarotti: My World by Luciano Pavarotti Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($12.57)In the world of opera today, there is no one more famous or better loved than Luciano Pavarotti... |
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16. | | Indianapolis Museum of Art Raw and Uncut by Salvador Gonzalez Escalona Available on: Video DownloadSome things are just too good to edit...and some things, well, we just don't have time to edit. |
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17. | | The History of Theatre by David Timson Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($28.98) | Digital Download ($23.18)Here is a diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre, from the first tragedies and comedies of Ancient Greece to the high-tech mega-musicals of the late 20th century... |
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18. | | More Famous Composers by Darren Henley Available on: Audio CD ($14.38)The first volume of Famous Composers written by Darren Henley and read by Marin Alsop, the American conductor, won a prestigious Audie in the US. |
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19. | | Aida: An Introduction to Verdi's Opera by Thomson Smille Available on: Audio CD ($22.46)Aida is one of the most popular operas ever written, a sumptuous work which has moments of great drama, but which reminds us in the end that it's all about people--the greatest love affairs and the greatest affairs of state cliff themselves in simple humanity. |
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20. | | Ballet Stories by David Angus Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)The magic of ballet is evoked in these enchanting stories presented with many musical excerpts from the works themselves... |
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21. | | Masterpieces of Western Music by Jeffrey Lependorf Available on: Audio CDFrom the "Spring" of Vivaldi's Four Seasons to Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, our appreciation of musical masterpieces can be deeply enhanced by an understanding of what makes them great. |
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22. | | L.A. Theatre Works "The Play's the Thing" Podcast Available on: PodcastThe Play's the Thing, produced by L.A. Theatre Works, www.latw.org, is an award-winning and critically acclaimed weekly radio show, heard nationwide and overseas. |
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23. | | Art and Technology by Alan Brody Available on: Online VideoHigh tech tools have become a means for both creating and communicating art. For some of the symposium panelists, this poses a mixed blessing |
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24. | | Composers' Letters by Ludwig van Beethoven Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)In Composers' Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love... |
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25. | | Downstage Center Available on: Digital Download“Downstage Center” offers in-depth single subject interviews with theatre artists, producers and others in the field, addressing their most recent work as well as providing an overview of their careers. |