Carnegie Hall (1947) - DVD

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The Basic Pilot: A Carnegie Hall employee, played by Marsha Hunt, wants her son to be a musician and raises him in the hall. they attend performances by many of the greats of the day. Musical selections include:
-Bruno Walter: Wagner, Die Meistersinger, Prelude
-Lily Pons: Rachmaninoff, "Vocalise"; Delibes, Lakeme, "Bell Song"
-Gregor Piatigorsky: Saint-Saens, The Carnival of the Animals, "The Swans"
-Rise Stevens: Saint-Saens, Samson et Dalila, "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix", 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, 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", Frank Ryerson and William Moore, "The Pleasure's All Mine"
-Jascha Heifetz & Fritz Reiner: Tschaikowsky, Violin Concerto, First Movement
-Leopold Stokowki: Tschaikowsky, Fifth Symphony, Second Movement
-Harry James: Hal Borne, "Brown Danube"