Bernard Herrmann: Columbia Workshop: "Melodrams"

The May 14, 1938 episode of the CBS radio program Columbia Workshop was entitled "Melodrams" and featured poetry spoken by David Ross and underscored by Bernard Herrmann. The episode has been divided into four sections as follows:

The Willow Leaf:

http://youtu.be/8U3GJUL1p20

A Shropshire Lad:

http://youtu.be/bwqyrYNr_ts

La Belle Dame Sans Merci:

The City of Brass:

http://youtu.be/5w8IJPKDo5w

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Roland Petit

Roland Petit and his wife Zizi Jeanmarie

Roland Petit (1924-2011) was a ballet choreographer who worked on stage and in films.

Read more about him here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Petit

Carmen (1949):

[follow all 3 parts from the first here]:

Hans Christian Andersen (1952) [excerpt]:

Black Tights (1960) [excepts]:

[Follow all 2 parts of Carmen from the first here]:

Notre-Dame de Paris (1965) [with music composed by Maurice Jarre]:

[Follow all 6 parts from the first here]:

Le Jeune Homme et La Mort (1966):

[Another version, follow all 2 parts from the first here]:

Pink Floyd Ballet (1972):

[Another version]:

Les Intermittences du Couer-Proust Remembered (1974) [excerpt]:

L'Arlesienne (1974):

[follow all 6 parts from the first here]:

La Chauve-Souris (1979) [excerpts]:

[Follow all 2 parts from the first here]:

The Blue Angel (1985) [with music composed by Marius Constant]:

La Diable Amoureux (1989) [excerpts] [with music composed by Gabriel Yared]:

[Follow all 2 parts from the first here]:

Clavigo (1999) [excerpts] [with music composed by Gabriel Yared]:

[Follow all 2 parts of this excerpt from the first here]:

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Sisters

Sisters (1973) is a film written and directed by Brian De Palma that stars Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt and is scored by Bernard Herrmann. It's a psychological thriller, not without aspects of satire, that uses techniques like split-screen effects in highly-inventive ways.

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The Sadist

The Sadist (1963), a low-budget film written and directed by James Landis, is about an escaped convict and his girlfriend who hold a group of teachers hostage in a junkyard. Despite the film's limited means, the basic situation is so well-rendered that it creates a constant tension throughout.

More information about the film can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sadist_%28film%29

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Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation (Website)

Mark and Delia Owens have been working in Africa since the 1970s with hyena and elephants and more recently in Idaho with grizzly bears and gray wolves. They have written books about their work and have been the subject of a National Geographic special and a made for TV film. More information about them and their organization can be found here:

http://www.owens-foundation.org/index.html

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Akira Ifukube: The Sea of Okhotsk

A work originally composed in 1958 (and revised for piano, voice, bassoon, and contrabass in 1988) by Japanese composer Akira Ifukube.

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