Sincerely,
Brian McCaskill, Director
Educational Services
Facets Multimedia
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At 09:06 AM 3/27/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I can't remember who first asked about videos of Kurt Weill and Langston
>Hughes' opera "Street Scene" (maybe Becky Tatar?), but I just found a
>pre-release solicitation on Amazon and Movies Unlimited websites for a DVD
>only release of this opera, street date of May 1, 2001, list price of
>$29.99. While we have tosses around the issue of libraries ordering from
>Amazon, Movies Unlimited does accept PO's, and I'm sure Facets will have
>this listed before too long as well. They don't give a whole lot of
>information on the production, but it was filmed in Germany in 1995, with
>the Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic orchestra and one James Holmes
>conducting (cast is not listed,, and even if they are all Germans singing
>in English, the heavy accents might work well in this piece!). Reiner
>Moritz' company RM Arts filmed it, and he has pretty good taste in
>selecting productions to film, so it's probably worth the gamble.
>
>
>John Holland
>Chicago Public Library
>Media Express
>(312)747-4100
>jholland@chipublib.org
>
>
>
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