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Masterpiece
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Masterpiece
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Keeping classical music alive

WGBH is acquiring WCRB 99.5FM, New England's leading all-classical music station, and will shift it to a noncommercial service, in keeping with our public media mission.

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Events

Fall Arts and Humanities Festival
Saturday Nov 7
Marblehead Little Theatre's "Oklahoma!"
Saturday Nov 7
The Taming of the Shrew
Saturday Nov 7
There, I've Broken My Neck! (An Evening of Theatrical Disasters)
Saturday Nov 7
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Saturday Nov 7 7:00P-8:00P

Best Seat


Masterpiece Contemporary | Place of Execution
Sunday, Nov. 8, 9pm on WGBH 2/HD
A 13-year-old girl vanishes from an English village, and the mystery deepens 40 years later when a journalist arrives to make a film about it. What she finds shatters the lives of all involved. Juliet Stevenson and Greg Wise star in this psychological thriller based on the novel by Val McDermid. More Masterpiece >

Independent Lens | D Tour
Sunday, Nov. 8, 9pm on WGBH 44
Pat Spurgeon wants to make it as an indie rock musician. But just as his career is about to take off, one of his kidneys begins to fail. Can he balance his health with a rock n’ roll lifestyle? Follow Spurgeon on his search for a living organ donor.  View more Independent Lens >

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 8pm on WGBH 89.7
It has been said that pianist Josh Rosen’s quartet 3play+ “maintains the possibility of freedom at all times — the music changes on a dime, and with keen ears (and a little luck) magic happens.” Hear for yourself tonight as host Eric Jackson welcomes the quartet to our Fraser Performance Studio for a LIVE concert. Hear more jazz >

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1pm on WGBH 89.7
On the 90th Veterans Day (first celebrated on Nov. 12, 1919), the Orchestra of St. Luke's and conductor Robert Craft (shown) perform the Suite from Stravinksy's L'histoire du Soldat, the Faustian story that embodies so much of the post-World War I artistic sensibility. Find more Classical >

Art in the 21st Century
Thursday, Nov. 12, and 19, 10pm on WGBH 2/HD

In the series’ fifth season, Art21 travels to every continent except Antarctica to film the creation of contemporary art in museums, studios, and galleries in nine countries. Fourteen contemporary artists, from painters and sculptors to photographers to new-media artists, are filmed in their own environments and in their own words. The result is an opportunity for viewers to experience the process behind some of today’s most intriguing and controversial art. View schedule >

Independent Lens | No Subtitles Necessary
Sunday, Nov. 15, 9pm on WGBH 44

Cinematographers Vilmos Zsigmond and Laszlo Kovacs escaped the Soviet oppression of the Hungarian Revolution and rose to fame with classic films like Easy Rider, Deliverance, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Deer Hunter. This is a portrait of the 50-year journey of two giants of modern image making and the bond of brotherhood that transcended every boundary. View more Independent Lens >


The music you love, unfiltered

Great Performances, Austin City Limits, and American Masters on WGBH 2 and 44. Coming soon: WGBH celebrates the heritage of Latin Music USA.

 

Music Contest Throw


A front-row seat to great drama

Every day is a celebration of arts and culture at WGBH. Turn on WGBH 2 and 44 for beloved dramas on Masterpiece and coverage of arts in Boston on Center Stage with Jared Bowen; or tune in to WGBH 89.7 for new radio dramas.

Center Stage with Jared Bowen

emmy awardAnd the winner is...
Masterpiece:
Little Dorrit was honored with three Primetime Emmy Awards — Outstanding Miniseries, Outstanding Writing, and Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special. These join the nine Creative Arts & Entertainment Daytime Emmys that WGBH earned earlier this month, along with hundreds of honors over the years, from Emmys to Peabodys to Banff Awards — even two Oscars!

See our most recent awards >

 

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