GREAT PERFORMANCES

CARNEGIE HALL 120TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT TUESDAY, MAY 31 @ 6:00PM & 9:00PM On May 5, 2011, Carnegie Hall will commemorate its 120th anniversary with an all-star gala concert featuring conductor Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic and special guests pianist Emanuel Ax, cellist Yo-Yo Ma,  violinist Gil Shaham, and the four-time Tony Award-winning singer and actress Audra...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE WAR LETTERS SATURDAY, JUNE 4 @ 7:00PM In every American war from the Revolutionary War to the Persian Gulf War, American military men and women have captured the horror, pathos and intensity of warfare by writing letters home. Tens of thousands of these letters have been handed down from generation to generation. Using the most compelling and enlightening of these missives,...

SCHEDULE MAY 27 – JUNE 1

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NOVA

SECRETS OF THE PARTHENON WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, almost destroyed by explosion, and disfigured by well-meaning renovations. It has gone from temple, to church, to mosque, to munitions dump. What could be next? How about a scientific search for the secrets of its...

INDEPENDENT LENS

WELCOME TO SHELBYVILLE TUESDAY, MAY 24 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM Welcome to Shelbyville is a glimpse of America at a crossroads. In this one small town in the heart of America’s Bible Belt, a community grapples with rapidly changing demographics. Just a stone’s throw away from Pulaski, Tennessee (the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan), longtime African American and white residents are...