Romeo and Juliet in Kansas City

Synopsis
US music series presenting classical music on television. The Kansas City Philharmonic, led by conductor Jorge Messter, plays Tchaikovsky’s fantasy-overture in the Cowtown Ballroom before an audience of young people. "Here the focus broadens to include the listeners, whose faces become a reflecting surface for the dramatic conflicts of the tone poem, and who themselves might well be embodiments of Shakespeare’s universal protagonists" (Alan M. Kriegsman, The Washington Post). Interspersed with quotations from the play. [With acknowledgment to Zoran Sinobad, LIbrary of Congress, for providing the synopsis].
Language
English
Country
United States
Medium
Television
Technical information
Colour / Sound
Transmission details
30 Apr 1975 (Channel: PBS)
Duration
30 mins

Credits

Director
Allan Miller
Music
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Additional Details

Production type
Documentary/Educational/News
Plays
Romeo and Juliet
Subjects
Music
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes
The Library of Congress holds master preservation material only. No viewing copy (8/2010).

Production Company

Name

Music Project For Television

Name

PBS

Web
http://www.pbs.org External site opens in new window

Archive

Name

Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division

Web
http://catalog.loc.gov/ External site opens in new window
Phone
(20) 707-8572
Fax
(20) 707-237’1
Address
Motion Picture & Television Reading Room
James Madison Building, LM 336
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C.
20540-4690
United States

How to cite this record

Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet in Kansas City". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av72798 (Accessed 16 Nov 2024)