Movies: José Montes-Baquer

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The genius Spanish painter Salvador Dalí undertakes an amazing journey through the unknown mental territories of Upper Mongolia in search of a giant hallucinogenic mushroom while paying an experimental tribute to the French poet Raymond Roussel (1877...

A look at the life and work of composer Nino Rota....

"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh choreographers and their companies. Although Butoh is often viewed as Japan's equivalent of modern dance, in ...

An odyssey through Beethoven’s lasting presence and influence in our modern world – viewed through the eyes of the composer himself....

Piazzolla and his Quintet perform with the Cologne Rundfunk Orchestra conducted by Pinches Steinberg in this film by Jose-Montes Baquer. Piazzolla is also featured in conversation....

A group of song-and-dance performers put on an evening of vaudeville, ragtime and blues in a 1926 New Orleans club....

German-Brazilian production on the life of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos....

American composers have long struggled against the momentum of the Western European classical tradition and the prestige it has held in America's cultural life. "I did not want to have any stricture at all, I wanted to be completely free." So spoke H...

The narration of the encounter of Antonio Vivaldi, George Friedrich Haendel and Domenico Scarlatti during the 1709 Venetian Carnival....

Sir Neville Marriner conducts the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra and Sheldon Schwartz dances the title role in this 1980 production of Stravinski's one-act ballet, choreographed by Heinz Spoerli. The story centers on Naples man...