Reference & Special Interest

Music by Jerrry Bock and John Williams, directed by Norman Jewison.

Deborah Kerr and Yul Bynner star as Anna and the King of Siam in this classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical.

Russia's famed troupe is trained in classical ballet, folk dancing and acrobatics.

Features 18 of the all-time best performances of this Irish Dance phenomenon plus a documentary of the first 10 years of Riverdance.

How they are made and the history of pan drums.

by Alice M. Hammel and Ryan M. Hourigan. Structuring class experiences and creating effective team-teaching strategies.

Shaping Music Education from a Global Perspective by Huib Schippers.

A Label-Free Approach 2nd edition by Alice M. Hammel & Ryan M. Hourigan.

 Practical books by Alice Hammel and Ryan Hourigan that offer teaching strategies and inspirational experiences and ideas.

This award winning film,based on the novel Una Vida by Nicolas Bazan, is lyrically interwoven with the music of New Orleans.

A Symphony of the Human Spirit.  Award-winning documentary of a Paraguayan village built on a landfill, and the man who built instruments from the garbage and began The Recycled Orchestra.

The American Boy choir made a trip to Terezin Concentration Camp to learn about a work they perform using texts from the children in the camp. 20 years later they return and are reunited with the survivors they met earlier.

When Gabriel is located years after a traumatic brain injury, a music therapist unlocks the key to his memory with music  Based on a true story.

Based on the inspiring true story of a Chinese peasant who beats the odds to become a world renowned ballet dancer. 

The riveting story of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra during the time of Hitler.

Meet the inhabitants of the nursing home for retired opera singers founded by Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. Insightful, humorous, life-affirming.

A homeless, ex-Julliard musician battles mental illness through the power of music and friendship. 

Pianist Lang Lang in solo, chamber and orchestral performance of Chinese classics, with behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.

When the time came for revolt to gain independence from the weight of the Iron Curtain, song became the Estonians' vehicle for free speech, uniting them in a soaring and daring anthem of independence. Inspiring, gripping, and true.

A stirring, live gospel performance by 60 exuberant children that benefited childhoood victims of AIDS in Africa.