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Kristi Yamaguchi hosts the lavish holiday treat, Great Performances Dance in America: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker, on Monday, December 21 at 9:00 p.m. on WPBT2.
San Francisco Ballet makes the beloved Nutcracker its own, resetting it during the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition and introducing viewers to the dazzling Maria Kochetkova and Davit Karapetyan. The work is choreographed by artistic director Helgi Tomasson and features sets and costumes by, respectively, Michael Yeargan and Martin Pakledinaz, both repeat Tony Award-winning designers. San Francisco Ballet music director and principal conductor Martin West conducts Tchaikovsky’s sprightly score. “Striking, elegant and beautiful,” assessed The New York Times.
“I have grown up with this wonderful company,” says Yamaguchi. “It was with them that my mom, Carole, took me to my first Nutcracker. Pretty impressive for a little girl, with all that magic and sparkle, thrilling music and those costumes! I think that’s when I fell in love with performing. Next year, I’ll be taking my little girls, five and three, to their first production.”
Tchaikovsky’s beguiling score is one of the most popular pieces of music ever written. Think “Dance of the Sugar
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Opera’s Golden Couple, Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón, star in the Puccini favorite, La Bohème on WPBT2, December 23 at 9:00 p.m. The pairing of one of the most beloved operas of all time with a contemporary “dream team” of singers sets the stage for a romantic silver screen blockbuster. La Bohème is a doomed love affair between a poet (Rolando Villazón) and a seamstress (Anna Netrebko) in 1830s
“My principal motivation in filming the opera ‘La Bohème’ is to set a memorial to the singers Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón,” says Austrian director Robert Dornhelm, adding, “I think that this film, this music, this story will beguile not just opera lovers.” Great Performances presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama and performance documentaries. A stellar review in Opera News raves: “It’s probably fair to say that this La Bohème is one of the best filmic realizations of an opera since Francesco Rosi’s 1984 Carmen.
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A new production of Puccini’s Tosca starring Karita Mattila opens the Great Performances at the Met’s fourth season on WPBT2, Wednesday, December 16, 9:00 p.m.
Mattila sings the title role of Tosca for the first time outside her native
Bondy, among the world’s most renowned directors of opera andtheater, has kept his Tosca in the Napoleonic era. “Directing singers in a realistic and precise way is more important than translating this kind of story to today,” he says. “What I’d like to bring out in my production is that difference between blind passion and cold strategy.” Mattila, who has collaborated with Bondy in the past, says, “Tosca uses her beauty as an asset in a man’s world. But no matter how strong she is, her power has limits because she’s a woman. This fragile side is what makes it interesting – and this is where the real work with the director begins.”
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Nightly Business Report is getting a new look and a new co-host in 2010! Tom Hudson will replace legendary anchor Paul Kangas beginning January 4, joining Susie Gharib as co-anchors of the nation's longest running and most-watched daily business program. You can meet Tom here on December 17 to chat about the economy, the latest financial news, and the exciting changes happening at NBR.
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EMMY®
WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR BUSINESS & FINANCIAL REPORTING AND PROMOTIONAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
In addition,
the Lifetime Achievement Award in Business & Financial Reporting was
presented to Paul Kangas, Anchor
and Financial Commentator for PBS’ Nightly Business Report, and Linda O’Bryon, the founder of the
pioneering business news broadcast and now Chief Content Officer of Northern
California Public Broadcasting. Presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award to Kangas
and O’Bryon were Rodney Ward Executive
Editor of Nightly Business Report and
Senior Vice President of NBR Enterprises; Steve Forbes, President
and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine; and Paula Kerger, President
and Chief Executive Officer of PBS.
Also among the speakers were Herb Granath, Chairman of the National Academy of TV Arts &
Sciences; and
A list
of winners for the 7th Annual Emmy Awards for Business &
Financial Reporting is also available on the NATAS website, www.emmyonline.tv.
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The Studios of Key West Invites You to Participate in the Combat Paper Project
Free Workshop in Creative Paper-makingFriday 18 December from 10am to 4pm
Historic Key West Armory, Southard & White Streets
Army field artillery soldier, Drew Cameron returned from serving in Iraq in 2003. Like many veterans, he had to find ways to deal with the experience of war and the lingering anxieties of post-combat life back home. Following his deployment, and 8 months on the ground in Iraq, Cameron began experiencing anger, feelings of withdrawal from society, and depression. Several years later, he met fellow vet and paper artist Drew Matott in Burlington, Vermont, and found a remedy in a new creative process. He had discovered the beginnings of the Combat Paper Project.
“It was a natural progression from being numb, from feeling isolated, from not wanting to talk about the military experiences that I’d had to facing them – to making art about that,” says Cameron.
Their project, based in a small collective studio in Vermont, soon began connecting with dozens of other soldiers and war veterans around the country. They ask each participant to donate their government issue uniforms, crushing and breaking them down in a large steel vat, and then learn the process of papermaking from those reduced materials.
Beautiful things and profound statements began to emerge. Air force dress shirts and desert camouflage became new works of art, and part of the Combat Paper Project's Fibers of Reason exhibition, on view at The Studios of Key West from December 10 to January 10.
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Nightly Business Report is proud to announce that Tom Hudson, co-anchor of the
nationally-syndicated First Business
program, will join Susie Gharib to
co-anchor the nation’s longest
running and most-watched daily business program. Hudson replaces legendary anchor Paul Kangas, who will be
receiving a Business Emmy for Lifetime Achievement on December 7. Already working with the program,
Hudson will make his on-air debut Wednesday, December 2. Hudson’s first appearance as co-anchor will
take place Monday, January 4, 2010.
Hudson will report out of NBR’s headquarters at WPBT in Miami.
At the Chicago-based First
Business, Hudson played a leading
role in steering the show’s editorial direction both on-air and online. Prior to First Business, Hudson was an anchor for WebFN.com, a news anchor at
WMAQ Radio in Chicago, and news director at the Quad Cities Radio Group in
Davenport, IA. Hudson is also
deeply involved in business education, as part of the Journalism Department’s
adjunct faculty at Columbia College Chicago and as a guest lecturer at the
University of Illinois. Hudson
received a B.A. with honors in journalism from the University of Iowa.
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