Product Description

This is the only version with all the musical selections. Performances by Heifetz, James, Monroe, Peerce, Piatigorsky, Pinza, Pons, Reiner, Rodzinski, Rubinstein, Stevens, Stokowski, Walter and the New York Philharmonic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50973 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-10-17
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Classical, Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 144 minutes

Lawrence A. Johnson, reviewing in Gramophone:
"Buy the DVD and enjoy some sterling music-making from some of the finest artists of the 20th century."

John Ardoin, reviewing in The Dallas Morning News:
"Carnegie Hall contains indelible scenes of some of music's top personalities of the 1940s at work performing."

From the Director
The basic plot: An employee of Carnegie Hall wants her son to be a musician and raises him in the hall. They attend performances by many greats of the day.

Musical selections include:

Bruno Walter: Wagner, Die Meistersinger, Prelude;
Lily Pons: Rachmaninoff, "Vocalise" and Delibes, Lakme, "Bell Song";
Gregor Piatigorsky: Saint-Saens, The Carnival of the Animals, "The Swan";
Rise Stevens: Saint-Saens, Samson et Dalila, "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" and Bizet, Carmen, "Seguidilla";
Artur Rodzinski: Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, transition to the Fourth Movement plus an extended excerpt from the Fourth Movement;
Artur Rubinstein: Chopin, "Heroic" Polonaise, in A-flat and De Falla, El Amor Brujo, "The Ritual Fire Dance" (arranged for piano);
Jan Peerce: Di Capua, "O sole mio";
Ezio Pinza: Verdi, Simon Boccanegra, "A te l'estremo addio"; Mozart, Don Giovanni, "Fin ch'han dal vino";
Vaughn Monroe Sam Coslow: "Beware, My Heart" and Frank Ryerson and William Moore: "The Pleasure's All Mine";
Jascha Heifetz & Fritz Reiner: Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto, First Movement;
Leopold Stokowski: Tchaikovsky, Fifth Symphony, Second Movement; and
Harry James, Charles Previn, conductor: Hal Borne, "Brown Danube."

Other music includes M. & W. Portnoff, "57th Street Rhapsody"; Gregory Stone, "Sometime We Will Meet Again"; and portions of Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1, First and Third Movements; Schumann, Piano Quintet, Second Movement; Mendelssohn, Midsummer Night's Dream, "Wedding March"; Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, Second Movement; Haydn, Sonata in F for Piano (Hob. XVI:23); Mendelssohn, Songs Without Words, "Spinning Song." The film includes piano recordings by Nadia Reisenberg, Dorothy Eustis, Walter Gross, David Saperton and Rosa Linda.