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[email protected] Press materials: www.thirteen.org/pressroom/gperf Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies , To Air on THIRTEEN’S Great Performances in August on PBS The 12-year-old classical crossover prodigy follows her “Dream With Me In Concert” with a program of some of the most beautiful songs to come out of Hollywood THIRTEEN’s Great Performances will present 12-year-old classical crossover prodigy Jackie Evancho’s second television special Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies , in August on PBS (check local listings). (In New York, THIRTEEN will premiere the special on Saturday, August 11 at 7:30 p.m., with an encore telecast Tuesday, August 14 at 8 p.m.) The new special, a follow-up to her popular debut special Great Performances Dream With Me in Concert , will be recorded in the opulent splendor of the newly restored Orpheum Theatre, one of Los Angeles’ most venerable landmarks, and will feature such evergreens as “Pure Imagination,” “My Heart Will Go On,” “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” and “Some Enchanted Evening.” THIRTEEN’s Great Performances is a production of THIRTEEN for WNET, one of America’s most prolific and respected public media providers. For nearly 50 years, WNET has been producing and broadcasting national and local arts programming to the New York community. Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies is directed by David Horn with conductor Bill Ross, and will feature Jackie singing arrangements of songs from movies (the full set list follows below). Jackie Evancho got her big break at just 10-years-old as a contestant on America’s Got Talent , where the breakout star finished in second place.