Summary: This chapter of the acclaimed series New York: A Documentary Film provides a powerful portrait of the events leading up to and following the 2001 terrorist attacks on September 11, reaching back to when the idea of a “world trade center” was first conceived and the towers were constructed. Filmmaker Ric Burns explores the physical, economic, and symbolic aftermath of the 9/11 attack - and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: In this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns explores the turbulent and often harrowing years from 1945 to 2003. Emerging from the Depression and the Second World War as the most powerful metropolis on Earth, New York soon confronted urban woes of unprecedented proportions, and fought for its very existence. In exploring the social, economic, and physical forces that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: In this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns follows the city into the 20th century in the wake of an extraordinary wave of immigration and the birth of the skyscraper. As New York spilled into the new century, the extraordinary interplay of capitalism, democracy and transformation surged to a climax. During a single generation, over 10 million immigrants arrived in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: During this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns documents how the dramatic events that followed the Crash of ’29 fueled the greatest financial depression in American history and plunged the city and the nation into economic gloom. In little more than ten years, immense new forces were unleashed in New York, from the Depression itself to the New Deal, which permanently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Goldman, Ari L.
Summary: The Late Starters Orchestra is an amateur string orchestra where Ari Goldman pursues his lifelong dream of playing the cello. Goldman takes us along to LSO rehearsals and lets us sit in on his son's Suzuki lessons, where we find out that children do indeed learn differently from adults. He explores history's greatest cellists and also attempts to understand what motivates his fellow late...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.4092 GOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Music GoldmanBrooklyn Tabernacle (New York, N.Y.)
Contents: We've come to bless your name -- I will bless the Lord -- I will bless the Lord at all times -- Be lifted up -- Lift him up -- A vessel of honor -- Nearer -- I am thine, O Lord -- Walking with the King -- What a mighty God we serve -- Bless that wonderful name of Jesus -- I'm so glad Jesus lifted me -- Come into his presence -- You have been given (We are your people) -- Glorify thy name --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Alliance 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS BrookGoodman, Benny
Contents: Disc 1 (Vol. 11). King Porter stomp (3:33) -- Flying home (3:23) -- Stardust (2:32) -- All the things you are (3:33) -- Indian summer (3:27) -- One o'clock jump (5:05) -- Frenesi (2:40) -- The moon won't talk (2:36) -- Yours (3:01) -- Gone with what draft (2:41) -- Let the doorknob hit 'cha (2:57) -- Caprice XXIII Paganini (2:48) -- I see a million people (3:19) -- Moon and sand (3:29) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jazz Heritage 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GOOSummary: This episode of New York: A Documentary Film details New York's enormous growth as a booming commercial center and multi-ethnic port, and the mounting tensions that set the stage for the nation's bloodiest riot. Filmmaker Ric Burns examines how New York City swelled into the nation's greatest industrial metropolis as a massive wave of German and Irish immigration turned the city into one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: In this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, Ric Burns turns to the period when greed and wealth fueled an expanding metropolis, even as politics and poverty defined it. Now the spotlight shines on the growth, glamour, and grief of New York during America's giddy postwar “Gilded Age.” Exploring the incomparable wealth of the robber barons and the unabashed corruption of political leaders,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003