A Season of Thankfulness... For Our Actors & Musicians | ETV Classics

Additional Actors and Musicians From Our Collection!

For more sparkling performances from actors and musicians in our archives, look no further! Here you will find storytelling, acting, opera, Jazz, chamber music and so much more. ETV is so very proud of these productions and thankful for everyone who made these endeavors possible. 

• Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Falcon" (1972) - The Falcon is a one-act play by renowned poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, adapting Federigo’s Falcon from Giovanni Boccaccio’s 1353 short story collection The Decameron.
• Orville & Wilbur: The Story of the Wright Brothers (1971) - Orville and Wilbur: The Story of the Wright Brothers, starring real-life brothers Stacy and James Keach, is a dramatized telling of the tense time leading up to their first successful flight.
• Porgy: A Gullah Version (1997) - Porgy and Bess was originally created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward in 1935, based on Heyward’s 1925 novel about a disabled black man and his community in the slums of Charleston.
• Art's the Thing! Black History Month (1984) - Interview and performances by Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee.
• Cheraw for Dizzy (1975) - For Dizzy's return home in this documentary, he reunited with some old friends like Bernie Tillman for a jazz music session.
• Dizzy Gillespie: From the Be to the Bop (2017) - The unique story of his music is told from both a historic and contemporary perspective.
• Marian McPartland Collection - Jazz pianist Marian McPartland performed professionally since the 1930s, at clubs and concert halls around the globe and on scores of recordings.
• Now That I Am An Artist: Governor's School for the Arts (1996) | ETV Classics - Returning alumni visit the Governor’s School For the Arts and have a chance to work with the newest generation of students in the program.
• Spoleto Festival USA: A Little Day Music (1981) - Host Bob Edwards observes that chamber music is conversational and elegant music fit for a place like The Dock Street Theater which was built 20 years before Mozart was born.
• Spoleto Festival USA: Now You Has Jazz (1981) - Against the sound of a lone jazz piano played by Columbia, SC local Brian Honess, Spoleto host Bob Edwards reminds us that jazz is uniquely American music and that has its place on the Spoleto stage alongside operas and concertos.
• Spoleto in Retro - Part 1 (2001) - Beryl Dakers explores three of the disciplines featured in the festival's lineup: opera, drama, and dance.
• Spoleto in Retro - Part 2 (2001) - In part two, Beryl explores more of the disciplines featured in the festival's lineup: music and visual arts.
• Urban Bush Women: Bringing Praise House to the Stage (1991) - Watch the performance of "Something Sacred," a stage play that focused on the origins of praise houses in the Gullah culture and on the sea islands.