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Infantastic Lullabyes on VideoVolume I (DVD)  $9.98 #2600 Infantastic Lullabyes on Video presents basic shapes, primary colors, enchanting animals and easily recognizable objects in charming and imaginative animation set to familiar nursery songs, beautifully orchestrated. “Infantastic Lullabyes will help baby recognize differences in sounds, patterns and rhythms as well as shapes and sizes. This will help to develop language skills and prepare your child to learn to read. Repeated viewing increases familiarity with the sights and sounds that add to baby’s sense of pleasure and security.” -Susan Ginsberg, Ed. D., Associate Dean, Bank Street College Infantastic Lullabyes offers a unique way to communicate with your baby. Talk about the colors and shapes; identify the animals and other objects; sing along with the music; count baby’s fingers and toes; clap to the rhythms and encourage baby to join in.
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Infantastic Lullabyes on VideoVolume II (DVD) $9.98 #2612 From the award-winning creators of Infantastic Lullabyes On Video, comes a second volume of all new beautifully orchestrated nursery songs. Illustrated with enchanting animated shapes, colors, animals and a variety of familiar objects, this is a musical picture book for baby and parents to share! ““Bound to enthrall little ones. A powerful educational tool...” –CHICAGO SUN TIMES **** Video Rating Guide for Libraries “A great concept backed up by high-quality production. The lilting visuals match the stunning aural quality.” –PARENT’S GUIDE TO CHILDREN’S VIDEO
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DVD BONUS FEATURES Happy Birdy: A Birthday Video Songfest *Animal Kingdom *The Earth Around Us *What’s This? *Shapes and Colors Gallery (55 minutes, plus 42 minutes of bonus features) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Rigoletto (DVD)$19.98 #2403 Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera of the trilogy that includes Il Trovatore and La Traviata, is without a doubt one of the most popular operas of all time. The lavish costumes and settings for this romantic and melodramatic feature film version perfectly captures the period and style. The unforgettable vocal performances of the legendary Tito Gobbi and Mario Del Monaco highlight this Verdi masterpiece. “Gobbi’s Rigoletto…is for me the epitome of all that the opera is” “(Del Monaco)…his ringing tones provide a thrill…vocal plenitude and splendour” —OPERA
DVD BONUS FEATURES (90 minutes, plus bonus features) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Verdi: The King of Melody (DVD) $19.98 #2415 This colorfully filmed drama of the life and loves of the great composer, Guiseppe Verdi, is played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of Verdi’s successful and turbulent life, we hear more than 20 excerpts from Rigoletto, La Traviata, Otello, Aida, Il Trovatore, Nabucco and many other operas. A theatrical and critical success when the feature film was released in the US in 1974, Verdi: The King of Melody, will touch your heart.
DVD BONUS FEATURES (118 minutes, plus bonus features) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Ron Carter & Art Farmer: Live at Sweet Basil with Billy Higgins and Cedar Walton (DVD)  $19.98 #2330 Recorded in 1990 at New York's Sweet Basil, four Jazz masters come together for a set of great jazz, performing originals written for the occasion and standards like "My Funny Valentine." Also included: rehearsal footage and illuminating interviews. Carter's bass, Farmer's trumpet and flugelhorn, Walton's piano and Higgins' drums have never sounded better!
DVD BONUS FEATURES (60 minutes, plus over 60 minutes of bonus features) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Louie Bellson and His Big Band (DVD)$19.98 #2302 Phenomenal drum technician Louie Bellson, who revitalized the Duke Ellington Orchestra back in the 50s, leads his own group in this 1983 Swiss concert featuring the Breckers as well as expatriates Herb Geller and Benny Bailey. Down Beat called it "crackling, straight-down-the-pike Big Band music."
DVD BONUS FEATURES: (55 minutes, plus over 60 minutes of bonus features) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Picasso: The Man and His WorkPart 1 (1881-1937)(DVD) $19.98 2001 "...of exemplary honesty and objectivity and puts Picasso in true perspective..the painter completely devoted to his destiny as a painter." JACQUELINE PICASSO This Cannes Film Festival selection takes a comprehensive and fascinating look at the life and art of the legendary Pablo Picasso. During the last 22 years of Picasso's life, film maker Edward Quinn had complete access to the artist. Through a combination of exclusive home movies and intimate photos, as well as over 600 of the artist's works (many never seen in public), a living, breathing scrapbook of Picasso is realized. The film follows the parallel development of the artist's life and work, giving insight into his creative processes. Among other highlights are some of the last pictures ever taken of him. Part 1(1881-1937) Starting in 1896, when he was only 15, we trace Picasso's artistic development, exporing his work as a youth, from the Blue period to the Pink period and his first steps into Cubism in 1906. Then we discover the Chrysteline period where he went from analytical to synthetic Cubism until entering his Neoclassical period in 1918. Part 1 culminates with the painting of his masterpiece "Guernica" in 1937. DVD BONUS FEATURES: (45 minutes, plus over 60 minutes of bonus features) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Picasso: The Man and His WorkPart 2 (1938-1973)(DVD) $19.98 #2002 This Cannes Film Festival selection takes a comprehensive and fascinating look at the life and art of the legendary Pablo Picasso. During the last 22 years of Picasso's life, film maker Edward Quinn had complete access to the artist. Through a combination of exclusive home movies and intimate photos, as well as over 600 of the artist's works (many never seen in public), a living, breathing scrapbook of Picasso is realized. The film follows the parallel development of the artist's life and work, giving insight into his creative processes. Among other highlights are some of the last pictures ever taken of him. Part 2(1938-1973) Through the war years and life on the French Riviera, Picasso's work moves on to include ceramics, sculpture, pottery and graphics. The period from 1946 to 1973 is made up primarily of home movies, showing his relationships with his children and the women in his life, and emphasizing the enormous amount of work accomplished by Picasso during his last 20 years. We observe Picasso, 90 years old, working on a copper plate engraving as we follow the progress and changes made through 6 different stages. (45 min plus over 60 minutes of bonus features) DVD BONUS FEATURES: (45 minutes, plus over 60 minutes of bonus features) [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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