Comments on: Online Music & Performing Arts Films

Online Music & Performing Arts Films

progosk — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:21:20 -0800

Medici.tv is an online "television" dedicated to performing arts and music documentaries. Its current catalogue includes many classical concerts, documentaries by Johan van der Keuken and on the Kinshasa musical underground (previously), portraits (lots of Glenn Gould, Shostakovich by Sokurov, Maya Plisetskaya...), and plenty more. Launched April 30th, it's streaming its full contents in lovely quality for free until May 15th. Geek tip: check Safari's "Activity" window....

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:25:39 -0800

Ah! I see under your Kinshasa musical underground link that they'll be airing Jupiter's Dance three times in May. That's great! I'm really wanting to see that! Thanks, progosk.

By: progosk

progosk — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:39:11 -0800

flapjax: unless you're sold on satellite viewing, medici.tv has it playing now...

By: progosk

progosk — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:47:04 -0800

oops: now.

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:53:21 -0800

Lovely stuff, but I'm having trouble with the video quality, too jerky. However, that Maya Plisetskaya link above alone makes this a fabulous post.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:08:03 -0800

> Geek tip: check Safari's "Activity" window.... Considering it's an all-singing, all-dancing website, the list of connections is reasonably small. What should I be looking for?

By: progosk

progosk — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:10:29 -0800

the direct link to the media file that you can then copy and paste into the "Download" window...

By: nasreddin

nasreddin — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:13:06 -0800

Dammit. I was hoping this was an online reality show about 15th century Florence.

By: kamelhoecker

kamelhoecker — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:29:34 -0800

I had to load the swf directly to bypass the silly "upgrade your flash" message. http://www.medici.tv/medici.swf