400.01 - Les Miserables

Les Miserables

The motion-picture adaptation of the beloved global stage sensation seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries and in 21 languages around the globe and still breaking box-office records everywhere in its 27th year. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France,the film tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption - a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. Ex-prisoner Jean Valjean is hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever.

Anne Hathaway - I Dreamed A Dream:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dny7QqAXfts

Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk

Anniversary Dream Cast Concert (2:27)hrs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMmF9el0S7k

300.08 - Cameron Carpenter - Popular Organist

A virtuoso composer-performer unique among keyboardists, Carpenter takes an approach to the organ that is smashing the stereotypes of organists and organ music while generating a level of acclaim, exposure, and controversy unprecedented for an organist. His repertoire – from the complete works of J. S. Bach and César Franck, to his hundreds of transcriptions of non-organ works, his original compositions, and his collaborations with jazz and pop artists – is perhaps the largest and most diverse of any organist. He is the first organist ever nominated for a Grammy for a solo album.

Sleigh Ride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvaJAJOi2ug
CBS "Sunday Morning" Interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ApgF2s3LQ


Organ Revolutionary -Telarc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo4Y-W1ur1c

Stars and Stripes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HrhZ1-cPJE

300.07 - Marvin Hamlisch 1944-2012

Mr. Hamlisch was a 12-time Academy Award nominee for his score and song contributions to films as varied as “The Spy Who Loved Me” and “Sophie’s Choice” and a three-time Oscar winner for the score of “The Sting” as well as the score from “The Way We Were” and its title song (with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman). He won four Emmy Awards, four Grammy Awards and a Tony Award for his score to the musical “A Chorus Line.” That musical, which blended bouncy, brassy songs like “One” and “Dance: Ten; Looks: Three” with melancholy numbers like “At the Ballet,” also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976.

A Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NrNmUNwFp8

The Music of Marvin Hamlisch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DDrIWD2yKc

The Entertainer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaB9HfMN5h8&feature=related

A Chorus Line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo0iIoWePYI&feature=related

The Way We Were
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcEOug9lb2Q&feature=related

300.06 - Mars Rover Curiosity

NASA's $2.5-billion mission involved the work of more than 5,000 people from 37 states, some of whom had labored for 10 years to hear the two words that Al Chen, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, said inside mission control at 10:32 p.m.: “Touchdown confirmed.”

Chen reported that Curiosity was in a “nice flat place,” and as icing on the cake, the spacecraft sent home thumbnail photographs of itself. Officials had said earlier in the day that photographs were possible but unlikely. Curiosity responded by immediately delivering a series of images, one showing one of its wheels resting comfortably on the floor of an ancient crater.

Historic Landing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNviFQpRvwQ

Curiosity Final Preparations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xm8WfZ3Ed4

Curiosity Landing - ABC News Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oLaC1VYoTM

300.05 - HMS Titantic - 1912 - 2012

On April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic embarked on its maiden voyage, sailing from Southampton, England, to New York City. One of the largest and most luxurious passenger liners at the time, the Titanic was also considered by many to be unsinkable. On April 14, however, the ship struck an iceberg, and early the next day it sank. Some 1,500 people perished. Because of the tragedy, the Titanic became perhaps the best-known ship in the world, capturing the public imagination and inspiring popular books and movies. After the 1985 discovery of its wreckage, interest in the famed liner only increased. Some 100 years after its sinking, the Titanic remains an enduring legend.

Titantic Secrets - Documentary

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkhWWqvHRc&feature=channel&list=UL

Part2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXOMA2M0QJo&feature=bf_prev&list=ULpjngYGTGe-A&lf=channel

Part3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjngYGTGe-A&feature=bf_next&list=ULWXOMA2M0QJo&lf=channel

Part4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6ww0faWco&feature=bf_next&list=ULpjngYGTGe-A&lf=channel

Part5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtna-YeG1C8&feature=bf_next&list=ULWs6ww0faWco&lf=channel

Part6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TETlF8H-61o&feature=bf_next&list=ULwtna-YeG1C8&lf=channel

Part7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQFkqm57SUI&feature=bf_next&list=ULTETlF8H-61o&lf=channel

Part8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYuUvpnJcpc&feature=bf_next&list=ULnQFkqm57SUI&lf=channel

Part9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbyZoQX_5zQ&feature=bf_next&list=ULNYuUvpnJcpc&lf=channel

Part10:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2m8Z1Je-0&feature=bf_next&list=ULlbyZoQX_5zQ&lf=channel

Part11:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIWEkXcmELY&feature=bf_next&list=ULFK2m8Z1Je-0&lf=channel

Making of the Movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_m48Qhmcmk&feature=related

Theme Song - Celine Dion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saalGKY7ifU

Titantic Museum - Branson, MO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asD4o8ZRa-I

300.04 - BBC Sacred Music Presentation - BACH and the Lutheran Legacy

Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music. With music performed by The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers, Beale explores how Martin Luther, himself a composer, had a profound effect on the development of sacred music, re-defining the role of congregational singing and the use of the organ in services. Ultimately, these reforms would shape the world of JS Bach and inspire him to write some of the greatest sacred music.

Note: The featured Sopranist is Elin Manahan Thomas.

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dAC1lLYJpg

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7-fUPwPHaE

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu1rfLUTzow

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gZKv19KEtA

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lecMZDofRw

Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr6g9B4nCnI

300.03 - George Gershwin (1898-1937)

George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 -- July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known. Among his best known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), as well as the opera, Porgy and Bess (1935).

Gershwin died intestate. All his property passed to his mother. In 2005, The Guardian determined using "estimates of earnings accrued in a composer's lifetime" that George Gershwin was the wealthiest composer of all time.


Rhapsody In Blue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wePM0aITzYc

American In Paris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_jpV-dOGJ8&feature=related

Porgy and Bess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbh1BrDE2ac&feature=related

Porgy and Bess: The Movie - 5 Parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVS3XEXOFGU&feature=related