Now Hear This, a Great Performances miniseries, returns for its seventh season tonight! Scott Yoo, creator and host, spoke with Jim Cunningham about the highlights.
Now Hear This, a Great Performances miniseries, returns for its seventh season tonight! Scott Yoo, creator and host, spoke with Jim Cunningham about the highlights.
Season seven explores the lives and works of Johannes Brahms and Scott Joplin, two celebrated composers whose careers did not go as planned; alongside the music scene of two major musical epicenters: Istanbul and Iceland. Tonight's show features Brahms: a visit to his country house in Baden-Baden, listening to the Brahms Piano Trio No. 3, the Clarinet Trio and a piano sonata.
Next week's show focuses on from Scott Joplin with Treemonisha, the Joplin opera and keyboard virtuoso John Novacek. Scott visits Istanbul and the Bue Mosque, with his wife, Alice Dade, playing flute, The Turkish Rondo, and Dave Brubeck with his Blue Rondo. And you'll see volcanic craters enter into the Icelandic music scene.
The new season of Now Hear This premieres tonight at 9:00pm. Watch it on WQED13 and on demand through PBS Passport on WQED+. New episodes every Friday night, culminating with the season finale on May 1st.