DVD: Great Museums

DVD: Great MuseumsNational Music Museum: America's Shrine to Music Great Museums, Program 206, 2004. High Definition. Duration: 30' In February 2004 this program was honored in the 25th Annual Telly Awards competition with the highest award, a Silver Telly statue, for "best in show" in the Cultural Documentary category. "GREAT MUSEUMS is an on going award winning series of weekly, half hour programs celebrating Americas museum world. What makes this series shine is its

Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies

by a slow harmonic rhythm with several half cadences and some perfect cadences… and by an accompaniment which is varied through the use of arpeggios

explores instruments from Native traditions

Luthier's Library Photo of the Violin

Klaus' research is internationally recognized through numerous publications on topics relating to historical keyboards and brass instruments

Bohemia (Czech Republic)

stringed keyboard instruments have served as repositories for human imagination

Gilmore's 1864 New Orleans concerts

it traces the trumpet’s initial struggles to disentangle itself from the cornet and shake off the reputation as an elite orchestra instrument

: Richard Harrison

innovation

The Missing Strad: The Story of the World's Greatest Violin Forgery