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I don't believe you can make a film for an audience with whom you do not share certain sensibilities. Please your sense of humor, honor your morality -- then and only then will you make a film that will touch others, and go beyond mere entertainment.

Directing Feature Films (21) // Mark Travis

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Overture to an Overture

Grab your hankies. In this week's On the Music: The New York Philharmonic Podcast, host Mark Travis reveals the tragic story behind Beethoven's Coriolan Overture: to avenge his banishment from Rome after long and valiant service, the general Coriolan leads an opposing army against his native city. When his mother, wife, and son plead with him to relent, the tortured general places his fate in the hands of the Roman mob, effectively choosing suicide

Operatic, no? In fact, Wagner was convinced that Beethoven intended the Coriolan Overture to be a self-portrait. Decide for yourself as the Philharmonic performs this powerful work June 14-16.

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"To live for you, to die for you."

On the Music brings you Mahler’s Symphony No. 10, a work written during a particularly tumultuous time in the composer’s life. Daniel Harding conducts the work in a “completion” prepared by British musician, musicologist, and broadcaster Deryck Cooke on the concerts of December 1–3.