Episode list

Two of Japan's preeminent classical actors, Shoroku ii and Baiko VII, display the essence of 300-year-old Kabuki theater and discuss their techniques with Faubion Bowers.

Avant garde filmmaker Tom DeWitt explains how he integrates film and video techniques detailing his goals and ideas.

The music of Spain is performed by piano virtuoso Alicia de Larrocha and composer Carlos Surinach who explains the distinguishing features of Spanish music.

Newsweek editor Jack Kroll talks with Susan Sontag and Agnes Varda who both are featured in this year's New York Film Festival. Excerpts from both of their films are presented.

Husband and wife actors Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud recite poetry in French (subtitled) and perform a scene from Moliere's "Le Misanthrope." A discussion of the state of theater today is included.

Robert A. DeVoe is the guest and he demonstrates a combination of his poetry, graphics, lighting effects and electronic music which is titled "Sonocollage."

A recently discovered score by Franz Schubert, "Grazer Fantasie" is performed by Lili Kraus. Boston Globe critic Michael Steinberg discusses the musical values and the discovery of the music in Austria, believed to have been written by Schubert at the age of 20.

Grace Glueck interviews American pop artist Claes Oldenburg.

Crowd-pleasing and show-off compositions from the 19th century are performed to display their technical proficiency, with guests Aaron Rosand (violin); Gary Karr (double bass); and Nancy Loo (piano).

LIFE Magazine photographer Eliot Elisofon is interviewed about his trip to the island of Java, on assignment to photograph the extremely rare white rhinoceros.

A multi-media essay on the life and work of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915). Pianist Anton Kuerti plays a selection of Scriabin's works; forming a backdrop are interpretive dancers, avant-garde visual effects and commentary by musicologist and Scriabin biographer Faubion Bowers. Piano selections include Etude in D Sharp Mi-nor; Sonata No. 4 in F Sharp Major; Poem, Opus 71.

Literary critic Christopher Lehmann-Haupt interviews biographers Carlos Baker (Ernest Hemingway) and Julian Kaplan (Mark Twain) about the art of biographical writing.

An interview with the founder and director of the Polish Laboratory Theatre, an avant garde theater whose productions involve the audience almost as much as the actors on stage.

Part 2: Margaret Croyden continues her interview of Jerzy Grotowski while Jacques Chwat (theater director) translates from the French.

Dancer and choreographer Matteo discusses and demonstrates Indian dance.. Several pieces are performed with his young troupe who dance to both Indian and Western music.

William Sloan, editor of Film Library Quarterly, talks with Norman McLaren, avant garde film artist at the National Film Board of Canada. Excerpts from his works present his ideas and techniques incorporating film tricks, animation painting on film, and "synthetic sounds."

The values and relationships in African Art are discussed with "Life Magazine" photographer Eliot Elisofon; Ambassador from Sierra Leone Ambassador John Kerr; and Robert Thompson, a specialist in African art at Yale University.

Folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie performs and talks about the plight of the American Indians.

Three arias from Handel's "Rodelina" are song by soprano Marilyn Horne and conducted by her husband Henry Lewis with chamber orchestra. Critic Michael Steinberg, from the Boston Globe, discusses the works.

The first of two programs on the personal, social and political meaning of Zen, which seeks truth through introspection, self-discipline and deep meditation.