"Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony explore the music of Copland and the cityscapes, landscapes, and social and political developments that shaped it"--Container.

Waldemar Januszczak looks at two influential periods in art history. In Baroque, he traces this style from its inception in Rome to its later use in some of England's most famous buildings. In Rococo, he reexamines the critical reaction to the so-called frivolity of this pivotal era.

For anyone wanting to master music's language, being able to read musical notation is a necessity. But this course, as Professor Greenberg notes, is a basic course, designed to introduce you to music's language in a way that is similar to the way you learned your own native language, by "discovering and exploring musical syntax through our ears-- by learning what the parts of musical speech sound like--rather than what they look like on paper." By...

Bob Dylan is without doubt one of the three most influential and pivotal artists of the Rock age. This film goes behind the music to discover one of the defining artists of the 20th Century. Interviews from Bob Dylan's schooldays include his English teacher and the guitarist from his first schoolboy band. The film follows his progress through his rebel days in college in Minneapolis to his development in the burgeoning folk clubs of New York's Greenwich...

In 1989, a group of unknown Utah actors starred in what would be crowned the worst movie of all time: Troll 2. Now, after two decades of running from this cinematic disaster, the cast can no longer hide from the legion of followers who celebrate them for their ineptitude.

Cinema devotee Mort Rifkin accompanies his publicist wife Sue to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, Philippe, might be more than professional. In addition, Mort hopes the change of scenery will provide a respite from his struggle to write a first novel that lives up to his impossibly exacting standards.

"In a historic manor, Scott Yoo makes a landmark recording, centered around Beethoven's famous Ghost Trio. This summons Beethoven's ghost, who's spent the afterlife analyzing his output ... trailed by the ghost of Sigmund Freud, who's come to analyze him. Based on the most current research, this witty, ingenious mix of ghost story and documentary reveals the composer as you've never known him before."--Back of container

1922. As Madrid wavers on the edge of social change, Salvador Dalí arrives at the renowned School of Fine Arts and is immediately drawn into the decadent lifestyle of Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel. But as the three explore the art world together, a forbidden attraction develops which changes their lives forever.

When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovers that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian with whom Langdon had been scheduled to meet. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a...