Footage from the film "The Red Badge of Courage" with Audie Murphy. David McCullough reads Sullivan Balou’s letter written to his wife Sarah just prior to his death in battle during the Civil War. The music is Ashokan's Farewell composed by Jay Ungar and made famous in Ken Burn's famous 'Civil Wa...
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"Ashokan Farewell" was composed by Jay Ungar in 1982 and later used as the title theme of the 1990 PBS television miniseries, The Civil War."Ashokan Farewell" is a waltz in D Major which Unger said resulted from his desire to write a 'Scottish lament'. The piece typically begins with a violin sol...
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Given the path our nation has taken over the last eight years, we must now reassess where we have been and whether we wish to remain there. The divisions are not merely 'racial' now. One American is pitted against another based upon privilege and power. It is time again to consider 'what we need ...
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Diana Damrau studied with Carmen Hanganu at the Musikhochschule Würzburg. After graduating. she worked in Salzburg with Hanna Ludwig. She has sung in venues throughout the world --the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera New York, Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, Munich and th...
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This is my homage to the Walt Disney classic that was produced in cooperation with Xavier Cugat who wrote the great hit: Brazil. Disney introduced a parrot, Jose Carioca, to sing the famous lyrics of the Cugat classic. The visuals were, of course, pure Disney genius. Brazil became a mainstay in ...
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The Wiki entry for Spaghetti WesternsMore often called Italo-Westerns in Europe, Spaghetti Western is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced by Italian studios, usually in coproduction with a Spanish partner. The typical...
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My video version of Loreena McKennitts of "The Lady of Shallot" with lyrics from the famous poem by Tennyson. The painting is by Waterhouse and may be seen in the Tate Gallery in London.
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Route 66 was a hit series on American television at a time when quality television was not uncommon. The series centered around the adventures of two young men who traveled across America, most via the famous Route 66 across the American west all the way to the Pacific at Los Angeles.The CBS seri...
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I recall the legendary Roy Orbison from his early performances on KOSA-TV, Channel 7, Odessa back in the early sixities. Orbison’s 'Teen Kings' held sway every Saturday afternoon. At other times, they played various dates throughout West Texas. Orbison's 'Teen Kings' were recorded at Channel 7 a...
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This is part two of five in the series of excerpt from Shaw vs Shakespeare, called the finest educational motion picture every made. It stars Richard Kiley as Julius Caesar and Donald Moffat as George Bernard Shaw.
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La Isla Bonita was a big hit for Madonna in 1987. The title, in Engish, means "The Beautiful Island'. It captured the spirit of longing that is often inspired by the desire to escape the urban jungle for an idyllic island existence of soft breezes and beaches.
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