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Runtime: 48m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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Howard Goodall examines the work of The Beatles, Cole Porter, Bernard Herrmann and Leonard Bernstein.

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Director: David Jeffcock, Francis Hanly
Status: Ended
First aired: Nov 27, 2004
Network: Channel 4
Studio: Tiger Aspect

Time to finish

3 hrs

4 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Cast

Leonard Bernstein

Self (archive footage)

Howard Goodall

Presenter

George Harrison

Self (archive footage)

Bernard Herrmann

Self (archive footage)

John Lennon

Self (archive footage)

Paul McCartney

Self (archive footage)

Cole Porter

Self (archive footage)

Ringo Starr

Self (archive footage)

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SERIES

20th Century Greats

20041 Season48m episodes7.0

Documentary

TMDB7.0

Votes1

Your rating

Runtime: 48m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Howard Goodall examines the work of The Beatles, Cole Porter, Bernard Herrmann and Leonard Bernstein.

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Nov 27, 2004 · 48m
Lennon/McCartney
John Lennon and Paul McCartney turned themselves into the most influential composers of the late twentieth century. Their music wasn’t just immensely popular. It also proved that traditional western harmony – the main building block of European music – still had plenty to offer. They, more than anyone, saved the western musical tradition from extinction, and gave it a new purpose and a direction.
E2 · Airs Dec 4, 2004 · 48m
Cole Porter
Cole Porter was the most gifted of a richly talented generation of composers who transformed popular music in the 1920s and 30s. It had started the century, for the most part, bland, patronising and trite, the gauche, poor relation of classical music. Cole Porter, more than anyone, made it musically, and lyrically sophisticated, emotionally satisfying and subtle. Remarkably, not only did he write some of the best music ever, but was also one of the greatest lyricists in the English language.
E3 · Airs Dec 11, 2004 · 48m
Bernard Herrmann
Bernard Herrmann wrote some of the most famous film music of the twentieth century, from Citizen Kane to The Day The Earth Stood Still, Fahrenheit 451 to Taxi Driver. He is best known for his scores for Alfred Hitchcock, in particular the masterpieces Vertigo and Psycho. Herrmann completely transformed film music, dragging it out of its reliance on the sounds and textures of nineteenth centuryVienna and into the modern age.
E4 · Airs Dec 18, 2004 · 48m
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was the composer who, more than anyone else in the twentieth century, embodied the trend we now call ‘cross-over.’ A brilliant musician and conductor, he wrote in the ‘classical’ style, but also wrote some of the best known ‘popular’ music of the century, from On The Town to West Side Story. By his own mixing of European classical, pop and Latin styles, Bernstein may have prefigured the next important phase in the music of our own time – the fusion of Western and Asian styles.

Details

Director: David Jeffcock, Francis Hanly
Status: Ended
First aired: Nov 27, 2004
Network: Channel 4
Studio: Tiger Aspect

Time to finish

3 hrs

4 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Leonard Bernstein

Self (archive footage)

Howard Goodall

Presenter

George Harrison

Self (archive footage)

Bernard Herrmann

Self (archive footage)

John Lennon

Self (archive footage)

Paul McCartney

Self (archive footage)

Cole Porter

Self (archive footage)

Ringo Starr

Self (archive footage)

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