The Boston Pops performs Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert, prepared by the original creators Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty especially for the Pops. Based on the 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime weaves together the stories of three intersecting groups in the U.S. in the early...
Rain pours and rubbish soars while light-bulb creatures party on the edge of the earth. A turn-of-the-century scientist in his chamber and a magic lantern child are concerned about the state of the planet. An ode to awareness and transformation, a global warning. —Fern Seiden
Lugano, 1900: Alessandro and Agnese establish the Maison Patuzzo, a mirror of a tumultuous century. Between wars and love, rising hems and fashions, family and city waltz through time.
A film styled in the form of a silent film about a Chinese laundryman in turn-of-the-century New York who longs to return to his homeland, uses subtitles.
