Why Public Broadcasting Matters
People often ask me how I got involved in public broadcasting. "It was an accident," I tell them. "A glorious accident."I didn't really spend a lot of time watching television or listening to the radio...
View ArticleSmaller Arts Grants Awarded for PBS Shows
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded significantly smaller grants to established PBS programs this year."Live From Lincoln Center" received no funding under the 2012 Arts in Media grants....
View ArticleKiri Te Kanawa To Guest Star on 'Downton Abbey'
The New Zealand soprano Kiri Te Kanawa will be joining the bluebloods on "Downton Abbey," PBS said in a statement over the weekend.The 68-year-old singer will play a house guest who sings, joining the...
View Article'All-Star Orchestra,' a Made-for-TV Symphony, Hits the Airwaves
It’s the age-old problem of putting symphony orchestras on television: they're not as much fun to look at as to listen to. Anyone who has seen a few too many close-ups of an oboe player fiddling with a...
View ArticleBernstein’s Mass on PBS: A Multi-Cultural Tour de Force? Or Should Jacqueline...
Leonard Bernstein wrote nothing but one-of-a-kind works, each with its own set of ambitions and challenges, but none so problematic as his Mass. With its rock / classical fusion, on-the-nose...
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