VOL 29, ISSUE 9 / SEPTEMBER 2020 Great Performances: NOW HEAR THIS Fri Sept 18th-Oct 2nd, 9 p.m. The globetrotting classical music series returns with host Scott Yoo. thirteen.org 1 MUSICAL JOURNEYS EVENING AND NIGHT AS BROADWAY THEATERS and other to the contemporary—and enjoying the performing arts venues remain closed due culture along the way. to the pandemic, arts lovers everywhere Yoo describes the series as “Anthony To view the monthly program guide on our website, visit thirteen.org/schedule are exhaling a collective sigh of despair. Bourdain meets classical music.” and click on “Program Guide.” Great Performances is here to lift your The first episode, Haydn: King of spirits with the sumptuous ballet film Strings (Fri 18th, 9 p.m.), follows Yoo and Romeo and Juliet (Fri 11th, 9 p.m.) and a guest artists as they discover how com- 9:25 City of Joel In 7:00 PBS NewsHour new season of the globetrotting classical poser Joseph Haydn borrowed folk music SYMBOL KEY Monroe, New York, a land 8:00 Animal Babies: First music series Now Hear This (Fri Sept from Scotland, Hungary, and Austria to dispute erupts into a turf Year on Earth: “First Steps” war. REPEATS 3RD, 2:25AM. The basic tools for survival 18th-Oct 2nd, 9 p.m.). create his famous “Emperor Quartet.” Premiere 11:00 Amanpour and must be learned in the Our productions Celebrate the work of Franz Schubert Company REPEATS 2ND, 4PM. first three months of life. with Yoo and promising young musicians in Aired earlier (Part 1 of 2) REPEATS 4TH, this month The Schubert Generation (Fri 25th, 9 p.m.). 9/02 EARLY WED AM 1AM; 5TH, 7AM; AND 7TH, 3AM. To be announced In Becoming Mozart (Fri Oct 2nd, 12:00 MetroFocus [R] 9:30 Animal Babies: First 12:30 One-on-One With Year on Earth: “Testing 9 p.m.), Yoo and pianist Stewart Goodyear Steve Adubato Limits” Learning what it visit Yoo’s Festival Mozaic in California, 1 TUESDAY 1:00 Independent Lens: takes to survive in the where Goodyear directs an orchestra from “Won’t You Be My wild. (Part 2 of 2) REPEATS 5:00 BBC World News Neighbor?” REPEATS 6TH, 7PM. 4TH, 2:30AM; 5TH, 8:30AM; Now Hear This host Scott Yoo the piano while improvising Mozart solos. A fourth episode on Beethoven will air America 3:30 Migraine Solution AND 7TH, 4:30AM. 5:30 NJTV News 11:00 Amanpour and Now Hear This, which premiered on in 2021. 6:00 MetroFocus Company REPEATS 3RD, Great Performances in 2019, invites Also this month on Great Perfor- 6:30 BBC World News 2 WEDNESDAY 4PM. viewers to travel the world with virtuoso mances, dance aficionados won’t want America violinist Scott Yoo, Chief Conductor and to miss Romeo and Juliet (Fri 11th, 7:00 PBS NewsHour 5:00 BBC World News 9/03 EARLY THU AM Artistic Director of the Mexico City Phil- 9 p.m.). The Royal Ballet’s William Brace- 8:00 Henri Dauman: America 12:00 MetroFocus [R] Looking Up The self-taught 5:30 NJTV News 12:30 One-on-One With harmonic, as he chases the secret well and Francesca Hayward portray photographer’s finest work 6:00 MetroFocus Steve Adubato histories of classical music masterpieces Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers in this was defined by his love for 6:30 BBC World News 1:00 Henri Dauman: in this miniseries that merges music, “vibrant and sublime” (The Guardian) New York. REPEATS 3RD, 1AM. America Looking Up SEE 1ST, 8PM. [R] storytelling, travel, and culture. film version of choreographer Kenneth Each episode focuses on a great com- MacMillan’s ballet, set to Prokofiev’s poser, tracing the creation and lasting famous score and filmed on atmospheric City of Joel impact of their masterpieces while sets and locations in Budapest. Tue 1st, 9:25 p.m. exploring little known or recently Great Performances: Now Hear This discovered works and new music and Romeo and Juliet will be avail- FIFTY MILES NORTH of New York City, in they inspired. In Series 2, join able to stream following each the town of Monroe, the village of Kiryas Joel the Maestro as he meets broadcast via the Great Perfor- is home to one of the country’s fastest- acclaimed virtuosos, local mances website (pbs.org/gperf) growing Hasidic communities. When a plan musicians, music histori- and the THIRTEEN Explore is created to expand the village to keep up ans, and other charismatic app (thirteen.org/explore). with its population growth, it sparks a turf Romeo and Juliet characters on his travels Join the conversation on war with their secular neighbors. Hear from through North America and social media using the hashtag FILM + MUSIC. HEAR THIS: ARCOS NOW YOO, SCOTT people on all sides of the conflict, from reli - Europe, connecting the classics #GreatPerformancesPBS. gious zealots to dissidents, from rabbis to Major funding for Great Performances is provided by The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and those questioning their own faith. Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, Rosalind P. Walter, the Irene Diamond Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Seton J. Melvin, the SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, The Starr Foundation, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, the Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, The Lewis “Sonny” Turner Fund for Dance, Ellen and James S. Marcus, public television viewers and PBS. 2 thirteen.org 3 EVENING AND NIGHT 2:25 City of Joel SEE 1ST, 6:30 BBC World News Sreenivasan. 9:30 Henry Louis Gates, 9/08 EARLY TUE AM Steve Adubato 9:25PM. [R] America 6:30 GZERO World With Jr.—Uncovering America 12:00 MetroFocus [R] 1:00 Henry Louis Gates, 4:00 Independent Lens: 7:00 PBS NewsHour Ian Bremmer Celebrating the 12:30 One-on-One With Jr.—Uncovering America “Harvest Season” 8:00 Washington Week renowned historian, Steve Adubato SEE 6TH, 9:30PM. [R] 8:30 Firing Line With 7:00 Black America Since author and filmmaker. 1:00 The Collection on 3:00 Deepak Chopra: Margaret Hoover REPEATS MLK: And Still I Rise: With host Courtney B. Masterpiece (Parts 5-7 of 7) Becoming Metahuman [R] 3 THURSDAY 5TH, 10AM. “Out of the Shadows/ Vance. REPEATS 9TH, 1AM. 4:00 American Masters 4:30 Streit’s: Matzo and Move On Up” Henry Louis 11:30 Memory Rescue With SEE 4TH, 9PM. [R] the American Dream [R] 5:00 BBC World News 9:00 American Masters: Gates, Jr. takes a personal Daniel Amen, M.D. Know America “Raúl Juliá: The World’s journey through 50 years the 11 major risk factors that 5:30 NJTV News a Stage” The charismatic of African American damage brain function. 8 TUESDAY 9 WEDNESDAY 6:00 MetroFocus actor’s life and career— history. (Parts 1-2 of 4) [R] 6:30 BBC World News from Shakespeare to 9/07 EARLY MON AM 5:00 BBC World News 5:00 BBC World News America The Addams Family. 1:30 Streit’s: Matzo and America America 7:00 PBS NewsHour REPEATS 8TH, 4AM. the American Dream [R] 5:30 NJTV News 5:30 NJTV News 8:00 Red, White and Rock 3:00 Animal Babies: First 6:00 MetroFocus 6:00 MetroFocus Celebrate America with Year on Earth (Parts 1-2 6:30 BBC World News 6:30 BBC World News Frankie Valli, The Righteous of 2) [R] America America Brothers, Connie Francis, THORNELL AP PHOTO/JACK 7:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 PBS NewsHour and a parade of pop 8:00 NOVA: “Human oldies. REPEATS 5TH, 1AM. 9:35 Black America Since 7 MONDAY 8:00 Inside the Savoy Nature” A breakthrough 10:30 Karamu: 100 Years COLLECTION FAMILY MLK: And Still I Rise: “Keep The 130-year history of discovery called CRISPR in the House Celebrating Your Head Up/Touch the 5:00 BBC World News the U.K.’s first-ever luxury gives us unprecedented Cleveland’s Karamu House— 10:30 Symphony for Sky” Henry Louis Gates, America hotel—a bastion of British control over the building the oldest African-American Nature: The Britt Orchestra Jr. explores America’s 5:30 NJTV News hospitality. REPEATS blocks of life. REPEATS theater in the United States. at Crater Lake More than changing racial landscape. 6:00 MetroFocus 10TH, 1AM AND 10PM. 11TH, 1AM. 11:00 Amanpour and 130 musicians gathered at (Parts 3-4 of 4) [R] 6:30 BBC World News 10:00 Hacking Your Mind: Company REPEATS 4TH, 4PM. Crater Lake National Park America “Living on Autopilot” Take in July 2016 to perform 9/06 EARLY SUN AM 7:00 PBS NewsHour a trip around the world 9/04 EARLY FRI AM the world premiere of a 12:30 Last of the Breed 8:00 Antiques Roadshow to discover how you go 12:00 MetroFocus [R] powerful new score. 2:00 John Denver: REPEATS 7TH, 9PM. through life on autopilot— 12:30 One-on-One With 11:00 Amanpour and Country Boy 9:00 Antiques Roadshow and get an autopilot Steve Adubato Company REPEATS 7TH, 4PM. 3:30 Deepak Chopra: owner’s manual. (Part 1 of 1:00 Animal Babies: First Becoming Metahuman [R] 10:00 POV: “Portraits 4) REPEATS 11TH, 3AM. Year on Earth (Parts 1-2 9/05 EARLY SAT AM and Dreams” Revisiting 9:00 Frontline 11:00 Amanpour and of 2) SEE 2ND, 8PM. [R] 12:00 MetroFocus [R] photographs created by 10:00 Harbor From the Company REPEATS 10TH, 4:00 Shelter Me: “In 12:30 One-on-One With 6 SUNDAY Kentucky schoolchildren Holocaust A Holocaust 4PM.