Season 5 DVD

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Season 5 video Gioachino Rossini's "Barber of Seville" flopped on its opening night, but a backstage ghost gets the right vibe and predicts its eventual success. If only Gioachino could believe it! Part of a series designed to introduce youngsters to classical music. Standard Screen; Soundtrack English

Season 5 movie The story of Hajj, a Bagdad beggar. His daughter, Marsinah, is Caliph's beloved, and Caliph is the ruler of Bagdad. Mansur wants to see Caliph dead and Marsinah added to his harem. Silent.

Season 5 DVD Award-winning actors Jane Seymour and James Naughton lend their voices to the heartwarming holiday fable THE LITTLEST LIGHT ON THE CHRISTMAS TREE. Rendered in 3D computer animation, the story opens as eight-year-old Timmy finds an abandoned Christmas tree lightbulb who doesn't believe in himself. But when a violent snowstorm causes a town blackout, the little bulb ends up saving the day by lighting the way to safety. A positive lesson in self-esteem a la RUDOLPH THE REDNOSED REINDEER, this magical tale of friendship and wonder is enhanced by eight original musical numbers. Animated; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English

Season 5 review This instructional release from fingerpick guitarist Eddie Hawkins offers a complete lesson on playing the music of jazz great Louis Armstrong on fingerstyle guitar, with segments on tuning, fingering technique, and more, as well as specific lessons on approaching individual tunes. This DVD lesson could be titled The Music of Louis Armstrong for Finger-picking Guitar or Gary Davis Meets Louis Armstrong. Born in 1896, the brilliant Piedmont guitarist Gary Davis came of age in the teens and the twenties. He was in his prime during the Jazz Age and his playing shows it. His guitar style and techniques came out of the twenties. It enabled him to play like a band. His thumb playing the rhytmic sections of the band while his index finger soloed over this. Rev. Davis only used his thumb and index fingers to pick. When asked why he replied with a smile: "That's all I need!" In Rev. Davis's playing you can hear the drive of Louis Armstrong as well as Louis's bugle call riffs. Rev. Gary Davis's style is made to order to play Louis Armstong tunes on guitar. As I learned most of what I know and do on the guitar from Rev. Gary Davis, this is how I see it and how I have approached arranging the tunes on this DVD lesson. Once you find the right key on the guitar these early jazz ...

Season 5 video Writer/director Cédric Klapisch (L'auberge Espagnole) returns with the energetic and insightful My Piece of the Pie, a contemporary drama with a comedic edge, a timely social bent, and a surprising twist. Actress Karin Viard (Time Out, Avenue Montaigne) is mesmerizing as fiery single mother France, a blue-collar worker who loses her job when the local factory in ...

Season 5 film This patriotically and religiously themed release takes a reverent look at the history of the United States, from the discovery of the continent by explorers, to the colonization of New England, from the Civil War, to the Civil rights movement. Standard Screen; Soundtrack English