LIBERTY WEEKEND: A CLASSICAL SALUTE TO LIBERTY {ZUBIN MEHTA AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC} (TV)
Summary
Anchored by Peter Jennings and co-hosted by Angela Lansbury and Kirk Douglas, this special presentation celebrates Liberty Weekend with a live concert from New York City's Central Park featuring Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic and guest performances by Sherrill Milnes, Marilyn Horne, Leona Mitchell, Yo-Yo Ma, Placido Domingo, and Itzhak Perlman.
Highlights include the following: the orchestra performs Thomson's "The Testament of Freedom"; Horne and Milnes perform selections from Bizet's "Carmen"; Mitchell sings "Un bel di" from Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"; Yo-Yo Ma performs the Allegro Molto movement from Haydn's Cello Concerto in C Major; Domingo sings "No puede ser" from Pablo Sorozabal's "La tabernera del puerto"; and the orchestra performs the final movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Ode to Joy"). In a closed-circuit television broadcast from the Place Vendome in Paris, Daniel Barenboim conducts L'Orchestre de Paris in a performance of the "Marseillaise," featuring soprano Jessye Norman. Includes an ABC News Update and an ABC Newsbrief; commercials for K-Mart, U.S. Liberty Coins, Worlds of Wonder, Texaco, Dodge automobiles, Van Heusen shirts, Dole ice cream bars, Prudential Insurance, IBM, Stroh's beer, Chrysler Corporation, Lipton Decaffeinated Iced Tea, Lawry's Unseasoned Salt, Ban Deodorant, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., and Avon products; and promos for "ABC World News Tonight," ABC baseball, and "Good Morning America."
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: July 5, 1986 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:56:02
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:06498
- GENRE: Music; Specials
- SUBJECT HEADING: Cello music; Choral music; Concertos (cello); Operas - Excerpts; Orchestral music; Statue of Liberty; Vocal music
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1986
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
- TV - Commercials - Avon products
- TV - Commercials - Ban Deodorant
- TV - Commercials - Chrysler Corporation
- TV - Commercials - Dodge automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Dole ice cream bars
- TV - Commercials - IBM
- TV - Commercials - K-Mart
- TV - Commercials - Lawry's Unseasoned Salt
- TV - Commercials - Lipton Decaffeinated Iced Tea
- TV - Commercials - Prudential Insurance
- TV - Commercials - Stroh's beer
- TV - Commercials - Texaco
- TV - Commercials - U.S. Liberty Coins
- TV - Commercials - Van Heusen shirts
- TV - Commercials - Worlds of Wonder
- TV - Promos - "ABC World News Tonight"
- TV - Promos - "Good Morning America"
- TV - Promos - ABC baseball
CREDITS
- For "ABC News":
- Roone Arledge … Executive Producer
- Jeff Gralnick … Producer
- Roger Goodman … Director
- For "A Classical Salute to Liberty":
- David L. Wolper … Executive Producer
- David Griffiths … Producer
- Bonnie Stylides … Associate Producer
- Thom Sidoti … Associate Producer
- Kirk Browning … Director
- Frank Slocum … Writer
- Maury Beaumont … Executive in Charge of Production
- Patricia Ryan … Production Coordinator
- Rene Lagler … Production Design
- Angela Lansbury … Host
- Kirk Douglas … Host
- Peter Jennings … Anchor
- Zubin Mehta … Conductor
- New York Philharmonic, The … Symphony Orchestra
- Joseph Flummerfelt … Choral Director, New York Choral Artists
- New York Choral Artists … Choir/Chorus
- Bourgeois, Col. John R. … Conductor, Unites States Marine Band
- Unites States Marine Band … Music Group
- Sherrill Milnes … Singer
- Marilyn Horne … Singer
- Leona Mitchell … Singer
- Placido Domingo … Singer
- Yo-Yo Ma … Instrumentalist, Cellist
- Itzhak Perlman … Instrumentalist, Violinist
- Virgil Thomson … Composer
- Georges Bizet … Composer
- Giacomo Puccini … Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn … Composer
- Pablo Sorozabal … Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven … Composer
- For the Paris segment:
- Martha Yates … Director
- Daniel Barenboim … Conductor
- L'Orchestre de Paris … Symphony Orchestra
- Jessye Norman … Singer