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A look at the activities of the Tanglewood Music Center, America's renowned summer Academy for talented musicians, singers, composers and conductors.

Van Morrison and The Chieftains recoded live at Ulster Hall, Belfast, in 1988 for Ulster Television Productions.

Pretenders perform live at Rock Pop Festival, Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany as they tour for Learning to Crawl. Also included a live clip of "Waterloo Sunset" filmed for UK television.

Accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, composer Benjamin Britten's satirical look at life in an English market town delivers plenty of laughs. When Lady Billows (Patricia Johnson) realizes no girls in town are worthy of the May Queen title, she crowns virtuous Albert Herring (John Graham-Hall), the greengrocer's son, as the village's May King. The comic opera features a strong ensemble cast including Alan Opie and Felicity Palmer.

A television musical based on the short story by M. Twain. The King of Siam sends a gift - a white elephant - to the Queen of England. Inspector Blunt is responsible for the animal's safety. However, he has strange desires that are closer to him than his duties...

Warren Zevon recorded live at the Capitol Theater in New Jersey in November 1982 in a concert broadcast on MTV. Songs include Johnny Strikes up the Band, The Overdraft, A Certain Girl, Jeannie Needs a Shooter, Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, The Envoy, Simple Man, Charlie’s Medicine, Jungle Work, Play It All Night Long, Accidentally Like a Martyr, Poor, Poor Pitiful Me, Cadillac Ranch, Excitable Boy, Ain't That Pretty at All, Werewolves of London.

The Cockney entertainers host a lively Christmas party complete with flowing alcohol, a jubilant crowd of Eastenders and guests including Eric Clapton.

This short film (entitled 'Neon') was shot in Australia, 1980, by Alex Proyas and Salik Silverstein and also served as a music video for Fad Gadget's second single 'Ricky's Hand'. The video consists of single-frame time-lapse journey through Sydney by night.

A bonus feature of Rudeboy, featuring only the concert scenes with the band.

In 1984, David Byrne put together a TV special on the Talking Heads for U.K. TV’s Channel 4, a 68-minute mix of live material filmed at Wembley Arena, interviews with the band, TV news clips, commercials and other various bits of found footage and sound.

Following a brief statement by Ry Cooder on his thoughts about performing - and improvising - on stage, this concert film depicts Cooder's 1987 live show in Santa Cruz, California, which was part of his "Get Rhythm" world tour.

Strauss's opera adapted to the screen by Gotz Friedrich.

An experimental film based on an 18-minute version of Béla Bartók's composition of the same name. Bartók's one-act opera is about a young woman who is forced by three crooks to lure men into an ambush, where they are then robbed.

After her mechanical nutcracker is broken by her brother, Clara falls asleep under the Christmas tree with the broken nutcracker in her arms and enters a dream world where the toys come alive.

Documentary about Gil Scott-Heron.

LOVERBOY Filmed live at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada on May 21, 1983. Also included is Any Way You Look At It Videos 1985 Setlist for Live In Vancouver 83: Jump, Lady Of The 80's, Lucky Ones, It's Your Life, Take Me To The Top, Gangs In The Street, Turn Me Loose, The Kid Is Hot Tonight, Working For The Weekend, When It's Over, Emotional Video Clips: Working For The Weekend, Lovin Every Minute Of It, Lucky Ones, Turn Me Loose, This Could Be The Night, Queen Of The Broken Hearts, Gangs In The Street, Dangerous, Hot Girls In Love

Modern Faust story of a tall, overweight man who longs to be a tap-dancer.

Campus beat and romance are set to music in this film of our times.

Short animated film that illustrates a song by the same name.

Lovesexy Live was the fifth Prince home video to be released and second live concert released on Home Video format. It was first released on 2 cassettes under the name of "Lovesexy Live 1" and "Lovesexy Live 2" in Europe. Confusingly Vol.1 contained the latter part of the concert, while Vol.2 contained the first part. The concert was later re-released as Lovesexy Live on one cassette (of 127 minutes) and on laserdisc.

Jazz legend Archie Shepp toplines this unique and informative documentary. It intercuts performance footage of Shepp with interviews where he speaks candidly about such topics as Jazz's African origins, the genre's "revolutionary" purpose, and the social isolation of African Americans today.

Joyful, androgynous forms shimmy across the screen to the sound of world-beat music.

Weather Report recorded live in Tokyo, Japan on September 27, 1984 - Joe Zawinul (keyboards) / Wayne Shorter (sax, tenor sax) / Victor Bailey (bass) / Mino Cinelu (percussion) / Omar Hakim (drums)

Live performance of Diamanda Galas in 1985, released by Target Video. The performance, based on a poem by Charles Baudelaire, devotes itself to the emaraldine perversity of the life struggle in hell.

The idea for hosting the concert was envisaged by Ronnie Lane, ex-bassist for The Small Faces and The Faces, himself a casualty of multiple sclerosis. The concert was billed as The Ronnie Lane Appeal for ARMS and featured a star-studded line-up of British musicians, including Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, Andy Fairweather Low, Bill Wyman, Kenney Jones and Charlie Watts. The concert was particularly notable in the fact that it was the first occasion on which Clapton, Beck and Page, each a former lead guitarist for The Yardbirds, had performed together on stage.

A video of live performances by Chris & Cosy with visuals by John Lacey. Recorded during the CTI European tour of 1983. (throbbing-gristle.com)

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

This is not actually a concert film, but a compilation of two concert films, "The T.A.M.I. Show" and "The Big T.N.T. Show," both of which were shot 20 years previously.

Echo and the Bunnymen live at the Royal Albert Hall, London (18/7/83).

Richard Wagner's grandson, Wolfgang Wagner, staged and directed this performance of the legendary composer's most human of musical dramas at the 1984 Bayreuth Festival. Horst Stein directs the Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra and an all-star cast that includes Hermann Prey (as Beckmesser), Bernd Weikl (as Sachs), Siegfried Jerusalem (as Walter), Graham Clark (as David) and MariAnne Haggander (as Eva).

Born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, Gunning suffered a life of bitter poverty which became the fuel for dozens of moving songs about working people, the mines, and the great coal strikes of the twenties and thirties. In Mimi Pickering's 1988 film, Gunning's a cappella roots music is intercut throughout the interviews and archival footage

Esteemed Italian conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti leads the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in a moving performance of Rossini's one-act opera "L'Occasione Fa Il Ladro." Singers Susan Patterson, Robert Gambill, Natale de Carolis and Monica Bacelli fill the theater with their soaring voices in this 1992 production staged by director Michael Hampe at the elegantly cozy Rococo Theatre, in the quaint town of Schwetzingen, Germany.

The lives and loves of 5 young people of the Uighur minority in Xinjiang set in a musical that reflects the upsurge of disco and breakdancing in late 80s China.

Mini & Maxi make fun of an entire orchestra en show their musical talent. Extra's: Documentary Mini & Maxi 20 jaar Part 2

Stevie Nicks at the 1983 US festival May 30th. Setlist: Gold Dust Woman, Outside The Rain, Dreams, Gold And Braid, I Need To Know, Gypsy, Angel, Leather And Lace, Stand Back, How Still My Love, Stop Draggin' My Heart Around, Edge Of Seventeen, and Rhiannon.

The film starred the ensemble "Mziuri" of the Tbilisi Palace of Pioneers.

Stick figures dance, fight, and perform acrobatics (but not very well!) to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov.

Lynda Carter's fifth musical TV special, with guest stars Eddie Rabbitt and Ben Vereen.

Recorded live on December 18th 1983 at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany. Setlist: "Riding On The Wind", "Breaking The Law", "Freewheel Burning", "You’ve Got Another Thing Coming", "Living After Midnight", "Victim Of Changes", "Hell Bent For Leather"

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden.

Combining documentary footage and performance clips, the film traces the origins of Plume Latraverse's career and reveals, through his musicians, some of his hidden aspects. Filmed during the musician's show presented as part of Québec mer et monde 84. "With a look, a glance, a roar, Plume gives himself to the camera. Whole as Haddock, our Captain Harrock'n'Roll finally opens up." (Franco, Nuovo, 1985)

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful and black.

“Sonic artist” Chris Cree Brown discusses composing with new media and how he orchestrates particular sounds into formal compositional structures. Some sounds are made instrumentally, while others are recorded from his environment. In 1980 few classically-trained musicians in New Zealand experimented with synthesized sound and the gloriously large and sturdy equipment Brown uses to create his music will be of sure anthropological interest to many musos. The documentary was recorded with no script to capture the true art of creation.

The musical band Mariška band conquered the audience during the eighties. This documentary describes the life of Mariška Holoubek (1904-1993) from Koprivnica, a versatile self-taught musician who played several instruments, and gained her greatest popularity as the violinist of the music group Mariška Band, which she founded at the age of 76. The group that played hits, country and Podravina folk music, despite its great popularity and numerous concert and television appearances, never recorded a record...

Live recording of a 1980s concert at the Tivoli Gardens.

A documentary in which the director attempts to touch upon the subject of Polish punk subculture at the end of martial law. The punk movement seems to be the sincere voice of a generation in a world of ubiquitous propaganda.

Released on DVD for the very first time, this magical concert was filmed at the Summit in Huston, Texas on October 7 1981. Features the hits: It's a Long Way There, Happy Anniversary, Reminiscing, Cool Change, The Night Owls, Help Is On Its Way, Lonesome Loser and more. This superb film illustrates the indelible melodies and soaring harmonies which highlight this 75 minute concert.

A cabaret show with Odd Børretzen and Alf Cranner filmed in September 1979 at the ABC-Teateret in Oslo, Norway.

A documentary which shows, in great detail, the making of the 1985 Bernstein-conducted recording of the entire score of "West Side Story", featuring operatic stars.