Great Performances
Season 50 Episode 23 - Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony
Performed from Highland Park’s Ravinia Festival, Great Performances presents legendary composer Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish symphony featuring the talent of Uniting Voices (formerly Chicago Children’s Choir), Chicago Symphony Chorus and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Led by famed conductor and Bernstein protégé Marin Alsop, the work includes music and spoken narrative segments voiced by narrator Jaye Ladymore (“Chicago Med”) and sung by soprano soloist Janai Brugger (Great Performances at the Met: Medea). Recorded July 2022, the symphony examines questions of humanity and faith, exploring the complicated nature of a higher power who governs mortality.
Episodes in Season 50
Black Lucy and The Bard
85 min
Intimate Apparel
134 min
Great Performances at the Met: Lucia Di Lammermoor
Great Performances at the Met: Hamlet
NY Phil Reopening of David Geffen Hall
83 min
Josh Groban's Great Big Radio City Show
110 min
From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2023
Movies for Grownups® Awards 2023 with AARP The Magazine
112 min
The Magic of Spirituals
55 min
Remember This
113 min
Great Performances at the Met: The Hours
Great Performances at the Met: La Traviata
Now Hear This “Piazzolla’s History with Tango”
Now Hear This “Schumann - Genius and Madness”
Now Hear This “Andy Akiho Found (his) Sound”
51 min
