Paris The Luminous Years

PARIS THE LUMINOUS YEARS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18 @ 7:00PM PARIS THE LUMINOUS YEARS tells the story of Paris from an unprecedented point of view, not as the familiar, glamorous backdrop for the revolutions that exploded there, but as active protagonist, catalyst and midwife to modernity. The film spotlights now-famous key figures in the art world’s first international avant-garde, including...

FRONTLINE

CLOSE TO HOME TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM As the U.S. unemployment rate hits a 25-year high and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a six-year low, award-winning FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel chronicles the recession’s impact on one unlikely American neighborhood — New York’s Upper East Side. In Close to Home, Bikel sets up her cameras in the hair salon...

CHRISTMAS AT CONCORDIA

JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM MONDAY, DECEMBER 13 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM Nationally-recognized composer and conductor René Clausen of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota re-imagines Christmas, taking viewers of all faiths and traditions on a musical journey. The college’s annual concert combines the pageantry of opera, the grandeur of choral orchestral masterworks, and the intimacy of...

GREAT PERFORMANCES

DANCE IN AMERICA SAN FRANCISCO BALLET’S NUTCRACKER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14 @ 6:00PM & 9:00PM San Francisco Ballet makes the beloved Nutcracker its own, resetting it during the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition and introducing Dance in America viewers to the dazzling Maria Kochetkova and Davit Karapetyan. Recorded in December 2007 by KQED Public Television to help commemorate...

SCHEDULE DEC 9 – DEC 15

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