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Great Performances--Music. Herbert von Karajan, acclaimed "the most powerful musician in Europe," conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Von Karajan was the conductor for Deutsche Grammophone's famous collection of Beethoven's symphonies. Ch. 2, 9 p.m., 1 hour...
...last ten years. It's sad in a way that Dry Summer (Susuz Yaz), must be the best Turkish film by default, but it has also proved its worth against some tough foreign competition--including The Pawnbroker--winning the Golden Bear award for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1964. Directed by Ismail Metin and starring and produced by Ulvi Dogan, Dry Summer is a cinema verite account of village life in Western Turkey...
Brassai was born Gyula Halasz in 1900 in Brasso, a village in Hungarian Transylvania. He arrived in Paris in 1924 after art studies in Budapest and Berlin, determined to make his fortune as a painter. Not until the age of thirty did he hold a camera. His interest in photography grew quickly, however, as he discovered that with a camera he could capture and portray the restless energy and labyrinthine density of Paris. Finally he could fix forever the flickering images he saw in the subterranean night world of cafes and bars that so fascinated him. He became a photographer...
...when she was 28, Antonia Brico became the first woman ever to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic. Today, at age 73, she is dedicated to an orchestra of skillful semi-professionals in Denver. This wonderful documentary tells the story of an extraordinary musician's life-how she survived with spirit ind intelligence, how she was scarred out not humbled by the problem of being both a woman and an artist in America. The result is a film that is both a testament and a tribute. Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman is much the best example...
This week, at a lavish annual meeting in West Berlin, the club- is presenting its second report, Mankind at the Turning Point; publication...