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Great Performances

Season 17 1988 - 1989
TV-PG

  • 1989-11-25T02:00:00Z on PBS
  • 2h
  • 6h 18m (3 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Documentary, Drama
Great Performances, a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on PBS since 1972. The show is produced by WNET in New York City. It is one of the longest running performing arts anthologies on television, second only to Hallmark Hall of Fame. Great Performances presents concerts, ballet, opera, an occasional documentary, and plays. The series has also won many television awards, including an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an Image Award, with nods from the Directors Guild of America and the Cinema Audio Society.

3 episodes

A documentary on Millicent Hodson's and Kenneth Archer's attempts to recreate the original choreography by Vasclav Nijinsky and original sets and costumes by Nicholas Roerich for the original production in 1913 of Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The rite of spring. The full reconstructed ballet, Sacre du printemps = The rite of spring : pictures of pagan Russia in two acts (Joffrey Ballet ; Orchestra of the National Theatre, Prague ; Allan Lewis, conductor) follows the documentary.

Season Finale

1989-12-29T02:00:00Z

17x06 Tailor of Gloucester

Season Finale

17x06 Tailor of Gloucester

  • 1989-12-29T02:00:00Z2h

An ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped by some grateful mice.

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