Season 3 (1979)

Mistress of Jazz / Jazz Great Ella Fitzgerald
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April 3, 1979 • 1h

Ella Fitzgerald discusses her career, from Chick Webb to the big bands to the song books of Gershwin and Cole Porter and beyond. a...Read more

Movie Music
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April 10, 1979 • 1h

Composer John Williams premieres his new "Superman Suite", Miklos Rozsa conducts the Pittsburgh Symphony in his "Ben Hur Suite", a...Read more

Itzhak Perlman
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April 17, 1979 • 1h

Violinist Itzhak Perlman performs the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony, then talks with conductor Andre Previn.

Nathaniel Rosen
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April 24, 1979 • 1h

Cellist Nathaniel Rosen, the first American to win the Tchaikovsky Competition since Van Cliburn, is featured soloist in Richard S...Read more

Yehudi Menuhin
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May 8, 1979 • 1h

Violinist Yehudi Menuhin performs chamber music with Pittsburgh Symphony cellist Ann Martindale Williams and Previn.

Carmina Burana
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May 15, 1979 • 1h

Pittsburgh Symphony and Penn State University Choir perform the concert favorite, Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" - a lively piece set to medieval poems.

Benjamin Britten
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May 22, 1979 • 1h

This tribute to English composer Benjamin Britten features concert tenor Robert Tear and French hornist Barry Tuckwell soloing in ...Read more