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Berlioz, "Beatrice and Benedict" Overture; Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16; INTERMISSION; R. Strauss, "Ein Heldenleben". Live intermission interview backstage with Previn.

New York Philharmonic with André Previn and Van Cliburn

A night of classical music,conducted by famous comedian actor Danny Kaye,is something for the whole family to watch. Danny puts his talents to use while conducting and makes it very special for people of all ages.

An Evening with Danny Kaye and the New York Philharmonic

Performed by the New York City Opera (in 2 acts, book by Hugh Wheeler, orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick). Pretaped interview with Stephen Sondheim; live intermission interviews backstage with Christopher Keene (Artistic Director of New York City Opera), Howes/Resnick.

Sally Ann Howes (Désirée Armfeldt)

Regina Resnik (Madame Armfeldt)

Beverly Lambert (Anne Egerman)

Maureen Moore (Countess Malcolm)

Susan Terry (Petra)

Danielle Ferland (Frederika Armfeldt)

George Lee Andrews (Fredrik Egerman)

Kevin Anderson (Henrik Egerman)

Michael Maguire (Count Malcolm)

Stephen Sondheim, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

A concert production of Stephen Sondheim's musical starring Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris, and directed by Lonny Price. Following the performance, Lesley Stahl talks with Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald and Michael Cerveris.

Allen Fitzpatrick (Colonel Ricci)

Richard Easton (Dr. Tambourri)

Alexander Gemignani (Lt. Torasso)

Timothy Gulan (Sgt. Lombardi)

Devin Richards (Lt. Barri)

James Clow (Major Rizzolli)

John Sloman (Lt. Augenti)

Gina Ferrall (Fosca's Mother)

John Cunningham (Fosca's Father)

George Dvorsky (Ludovic)

Kate Baldwin (Mistress)

Trey Compton, Jono Hustis (Male Attendants)

Jenn Dottino, Abby Stevens (Female Attendants)

Joshua Johnston (Mail Boy)

American Songbook - PASSION

New York Philharmonic Opening Night Gala With Sir James Galway

New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve Gala Concert

New York Cities Ballet's 'Romeo & Juliet'

The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma

The Season 35 opener features violinist Joshua Bell teaming with Sting ("Come Again"); Kristin Chenoweth ("My Funny Valentine"); Chris Botti ("I Loves You Porgy"); Nathan Gunn ("O, Cease Thy Singing, Maiden Fair"); Marvin Hamlisch ("I'll Take Manhattan"); Frankie Moreno ("Eleanor Rigby"); Regina Spektor ("Left Hand Song"); and Cuban music group Tiempo Libre ("Para Tí"). Also, thanks to technology, Bell "duets" with Russian pianist Sergey Rachmaninoff on Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 3, Movement II.

Joshua Bell With Friends @ The Penthouse

Pianist Emanuel Ax, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Itzhak Perlman perform Mendelssohn's Piano Trios and other selections at the Lincoln Center's Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse. Alan Alda hosts.

Ax, Perlman and Ma

The Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific," about love in the South Pacific during WWII. Kelli O'Hara stars as a Navy nurse whose love for a French plantation owner (Paulo Szot) is tested by her own prejudice. Songs include "Some Enchanted Evening," "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame," "A Wonderful Guy" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair."

South Pacific

The opening-night gala for the New York Philharmonic features music director Alan Gilbert conducting the U.S. premiere of Wynton Marsalis' "Jazz Symphony."

New York Philharmonic: Opening Night Concert 2010

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center perform Bach's Double Concerto and Corelli's Christmas Concerto; and is joined by recorder virtuosa Michala Petri for works by Sammartini, Tartini and Vivaldi.

Baroque Holiday With the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

The New York Philharmonic, under the baton of maestro Alan Gilbert, perform Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with pianist Lang Lang; and the second act of "The Nutcracker."

New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve With Lang Lang

Beethoven and Brahms With the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra are joined by violinist Christian Tetzlaff and violist Antoine Tamestit for Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major for Violin and Viola; and soprano Susanna Phillips for Mozart's "Crudele?...Non mi dir, bell'idol mio" from "Don Giovanni" and "Bella mia fiamma...Resta, o cara."

Mostly Mozart Festival Opening Night

New York Philharmonic Opening Night With Deborah Voigt

Wynton at 50

New York City Ballet George Balanchine's The Nutcracker

Bernstein and Gershwin

Renée Fleming @ the Penthouse

The Philharmonic Opening Gala With Itzhak Perlman

The Richard Tucker Opera Gala

One Singular Sensation: Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch

Ring Them Bells! A Kander & Ebb Celebration

Kristin Chenoweth: The Dames of Broadway...All of 'Em!!!

Josh Groban: All That Echoes

Celebration: Stephanie Blythe Meets Kate Smith

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel

Audra McDonald in Concert: Go Back Home

The New York Philharmonic's opening gala concert features special guest cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

The New York Philharmonic Gala With Yo-Yo Ma

This year’s Richard Tucker Foundation Gala — a perennial highlight of the opera season — celebrates Richard Tucker’s centennial with performances by many of the world’s greatest voices and a salute to this year’s award winner, Isabel Leonard.

Richard Tucker at 100: An Opera Celebration

She received rave reviews – and a Tony Award – for her performance in Broadway’s revival of "Pippin." Soon she’ll be featured in the next installment of “The Hunger Games.” Tonight you’ll hear how she got from Pageland, South Carolina, to a starring role on Broadway, told in songs ranging from Sondheim to "Sister Act."

Patina Miller in Concert

James Naughton has played his fair share of scoundrels, lotharios and would-be legends. Tonight, he takes on the work of Randy Newman, who specializes in just those sorts of characters. Naughton serves up all of Newman’s sardonic wit, but don’t be surprised if this two-time Tony Award winner also gets you rooting for these characters.

James Naughton: The Songs of Randy Newman

Hailing from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, one of the meccas of American music, Jason Isbell is creating a sound that expands on his roots and cuts close to the bone. His songs are drawn from his own past and the stories of others he’s encountered. But they also speak of “moving forward” and of the possibility of redemption – qualities you suspect he knows something about.

Jason Isbell: Moving Forward

The New York Philharmonic’s acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim’s iconic musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, staged in March 2014 to a sold-out crowd at Avery Fisher Hall, tells the story of a barber who, with his romantically inclined landlady, Mrs. Lovett the piemaker, seeks vengeance on what he considers a merciless world. The remarkable cast features bass-baritone Bryn Terfel in the title role and Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson as Mrs. Lovett, with Christian Borle and many more. Multi-Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald hosts.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Nathan Lane gives the performance of a lifetime as Chauncey Miles, who faces a changing world and his own self-loathing in 1930s New York.

The Nance

This year’s Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s annual gala concert features performances by opera’s brightest lights and rising stars, including Joseph Calleja, Angela Meade, Željko Lučić, Ildar Abdrazakov, Pretty Yende, as well as the 2014 Richard Tucker Award winner Michael Fabiano in solo and ensemble selections from works by Puccini, Mozart, Bellini, Massenet, Donizetti, Verdi and Bernstein, conducted by Maestro Emmanuel Villaume with the New York Choral Society.

Richard Tucker Opera Gala: A New Century

The landmark musical brought vividly to life by the New York Philharmonic, with an all-star cast led by Vanessa Williams, Julian Ovenden, Lauren Worsham, Norm Lewis, Jane Alexander and Fred Willard.

Kern & Hammerstein's Show Boat

Few have captured the magic of the theater better than Moss Hart, a poor kid from the Bronx who went on to become a lion of Broadway. Now another lion of the theater, James Lapine, reinvents Hart's memoir for the stage, creating a world as vivid and transformative as the stage itself. The first-rate cast, led by Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin, anchors the play's magic in real human emotion.

Act One

This year, Renée Fleming and 2015 Richard Tucker Award winner Jamie Barton are joined by Andrea Bocelli, Lawrence Brownlee and other great voices for one of the perennial highlights of the opera season.

From Bocelli to Barton: Richard Tucker Opera Gala

The legendary dance company returns to PBS with four works reflecting its spectacular range, diversity and artistry, culminating in a performance of "Revelations," the dance masterpiece created by company founder Alvin Ailey.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Signature performances of Mozart's first and last symphonies by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, led by music director Louis Langrée, and an early piano concerto performed by Richard Goode, anchor a program that reminds us that the legacy of Mozart is alive and well.

50 Years of Mostly Mozart

Nominated for five 2017 Tony® Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, this razor-sharp portrait of family dynamics revolves around the life of a gay man, his wife, his lover, his disaffected son, their psychiatrist, and the lesbians next door. Starring Christian Borle, Stephanie J. Block and Andrew Rannells, Falsettos offers a hilarious, ultimately heartbreaking look at a turbulent time.

Falsettos

The New York Philharmonic celebrates the centennial of the late Leonard Bernstein, its fabled Musical Director from 1958 to 1969. Led by Bramwell Tovey, with special guests Annaleigh Ashford, Christopher Jackson, Laura Osnes and Aaron Tveit, this loving tribute promises to become a classical music moment to remember.

New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve: Bernstein on Broadway

Two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster brings her irresistible talent and effusive charm to the intimate Appel Room for a special night with a special guest, two-time Tony nominee Jonathan Groff ("Hamilton," "Spring Awakening," "Glee").

Sutton Foster in Concert

Leslie Odom Jr., who won the 2016 Tony for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance as Aaron Burr in "Hamilton," performs.

Leslie Odom Jr. in Concert

Stephanie J. Block, who was featured in Lincoln Center Theater's "Falsettos" as well as in "Wicked" and "The Boy From Oz," performs.

Stephanie J. Block in Concert

Andrew Rannells brings his signature blend of vocal prowess and wry wit to a sparkling set of songs.

Andrew Rannells in Concert

A New Year’s Eve tradition continues with the New York Philharmonic, led by music director Jaap van Zweden, welcoming Renée Fleming for a festive evening of music. From Johann Strauss II to musical pearls from Stephen Sondheim and film composer Alexandre Desplat, Fleming and the Philharmonic conjure the elegance and sparkle of a night at the Ball. Kelli O’Hara hosts.

New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve With Renée Fleming

Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away?

Pipeline

Enjoy a soulful evening of song from one of Broadway’s brightest stars. Seamlessly making the transition from the stage to the big screen, British-born Cynthia Erivo won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in The Color Purple before starring in several films, including Steve McQueen’s Widows.

Cynthia Erivo in Concert

A new concert from stage and screen star Annaleigh Ashford, who thrilled audiences in Sunday in the Park with George (opposite Jake Gyllenhaal), Kinky Boots, and You Can’t Take It With You, for which she won a Tony Award.

Annaleigh Ashford in Concert

Megan Hilty, who's starred in "Wicked," "9 to 5: The Musical," "Noises Off" and NBC's "Smash," performs musical-theater favorites and classic standards.

Megan Hilty in Concert

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center journeys to this remarkable land, performing works embodying the essence of classical music in iconic settings like the ancient theatre of Larissa and the historic Church of the Taxiarchon in Pelion – culminating in a mighty version of Mendelssohn’s Octet.

Odyssey Chamber Music Society in Greece

Ring in the New Year with the New York Philharmonic performing Stephen Sondheim's most beloved works. Featuring Tony Award–winning stage and screen actress / vocalist Katrina Lenk — who will star in the gender-blind Broadway revival of Sondheim’s "Company" in 2020 — in her New York Philharmonic debut. The concert is conducted by Alexander Gemignani, also in his Philharmonic debut; and directed by Lonny Price. Includes selections and suites from "A Little Night Music," "Assassins," "Company," "Into the Woods," "Sunday in the Park with George," and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

New York Philharmonic: Celebrating Sondheim

Since premiering in 1976, the landmark series has sought to democratize the world of the performing arts by making Lincoln Center's historic concerts and events available for public broadcast across the country. And it continues to push the boundaries, both technical and creative, of what is possible in the realm of stage performance capture.

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Season 1

New York Philharmonic with André Previn and Van Cliburn

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/30/1976