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Rich's Multimedia Retrospectives

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An Alfred Hitchcock Retrospective

The Artistry of Gene Kelly

Audra McDonald - Broadway's Shining Light

Behind the Camera: The Art of Great Film Directing

Bernard Herrmann (Masters of Film Music Series)

A Big Band Tribute

Brian Stokes Mitchell - Broadway's Leading Man
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Broadway Ballads and Showstoppers - Part 1


Broadway Ballads and Showstoppers - Part 2

Broadway Ballads and Showstoppers - Part 3

Broadway Ballads and Showstoppers - Part 4

Broadway Ballads and Showstoppers - Part 5

Broadway Ballads and Showstoppers - Part 6

Broadway Ballads and Showstoppers - Part 7


Broadway Overtures
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A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein

The Cole Porter Songbook

Directed by...William Wyler

"Double Indemnity" and the Advent of Film Noir


"Dream" Songs

Dubbing Vocals in Hollywood Musicals


Early Rock n' Roll Ballads

Frank Sinatra...A Retrospective

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: A Retrospective


The Golden Age of Radio and Television...A Retrospective

Great American Songbook - Part 1
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Great American Songbook - Part 2

Great American Songbook - Part 3

Great American Songbook - Part 4
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Great American Songbook - Part 5


Great Broadway Duets

Great  Modern Female Vocalists

The Great Operatic Voices of the Mid-20th Century

The Great Operatic Voices of the 21st Century


Gregory Peck…Prince of the Golden Age of Film

The Incomparable Mario Lanza

The Jerome Kern Songbook
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Kelli O'Hara - Broadway Megastar

Laura Osnes - From Minnesota to Broadway

Linda Eder - Searching For Her Star

Linda Rondstadt - First Lady of Country Rock



Lullaby of Broadway

Lucy Thomas and Matt Dusk - Vocal Commonwealth Stars


Max Steiner
(Masters of Film Music Series)

Memorable Music Television Moments

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The Musical World of Andre Rieu

Nat King Cole and Florence Henderson


Neil Diamond - An American Classic

Oscar Winning Songs
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Outstanding Hollywood Dance Numbers

Patti Lupone - First Lady of Broadway

Perry Como and Margaret Whiting

Presenting...Lights! Camera! Trivia!

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The Real Florence Foster Jenkins

Rebecca Luker - Triumph and Tragedy

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Renee Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Revisiting "Carousel"


A Rodgers and Hart Retrospective


Rosemary Clooney and John Raitt

Shirley Bassey and Tom Jones - British Musical Royalty


Shirley Jones and Howard Keel

Short Musical Classics

​Sierra Boggess - Transatlantic Musical Star


Sight and Sound....Integration of Film Montage and Music

Signature Songs of Outstanding Vocalists

Songs of Inspiration


Songs That Lost the Oscar - Part 1

Songs That Lost the Oscar - Part 2

Steven Sondheim - Legend of Broadway

Tony Bennett - Entertainer Extraordinaire


A Tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein
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Vic Damone and Patti Page


Young Vocalists Perform Old Songs