Masterclass (TV series)
Masterclass is a documentary television series airing on HBO. Each half-hour episode documents the experience of a small group of young artists working with a famous mentor. The series premiered on HBO on April 18, 2010 with opera star Plácido Domingo working with three aspiring young singers.[1][2]
The students in the program are chosen from participants in the Miami-based organization, YoungArts, a program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, which supports emerging artists.[3] The series is produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon of the Simon & Goodman Picture Company. The Executive Producer is Lin Arison. In July 2011 the series was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program in 2011.[4]
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Season premiere | Season finale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | April 18, 2010 | June 27, 2010 | |
| 2 | 7 | May 28, 2012 | May 22, 2013 | |
| 3 | N/A | September 9, 2013 | N/A | |
Episodes
Season 1 (2010)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Guest | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Plácido Domingo | April 18, 2010 |
| Spanish opera star Plácido Domingo works with three young singers focusing not on technique but on how to convey feeling and emotion in their performances. | |||
| 2 | 2 | Liv Ullmann | April 25, 2010 |
| Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann works with a group of young actors on scenes from A Streetcar Named Desire. | |||
| 3 | 3 | Edward Albee | May 2, 2010 |
| American playwright Edward Albee, whose works include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Zoo Story, and A Delicate Balance, works with four budding playwrights to share his analysis of their work. | |||
| 4 | 4 | Jacques d'Amboise | May 9, 2010 |
| American ballet dancer and choreographer Jacques d'Amboise helps a group of young dancers to create a dance in five hours and then takes the show to the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. | |||
| 5 | 5 | Olafur Eliasson | May 16, 2010 |
| Danish installation artist Olafur Eliasson, whose works include New York City Waterfalls and The Weather Project at London's Tate Modern museum, invites 5 young artists to his studio in Berlin and works with them on an environmental art project.[5] | |||
| 6 | 6 | Frank Gehry | June 9, 2010 |
| Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, whose buildings include Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, works with aspiring architects on a city-planning project. | |||
| 7 | 7 | Bill T. Jones | June 13, 2010 |
| American dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, who founded the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and has choreographed for film, Broadway, and opera, works with seven young people (a writer/actress, a choreographer, three dancers and two actors) to create an original work in three days.[3] | |||
| 8 | 8 | Michael Tilson Thomas | June 18, 2010 |
| Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and the New World Symphony Orchestra, works with three young virtuoso musicians. | |||
| 9 | 9 | Julian Schnabel | June 27, 2010 |
| American artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel invites a group of young photographers, painters and sculptors into his studio for a critique of their work and a discussion of how he approaches his own work. | |||
Season 2 (2012–13)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Guest | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1 | Renée Fleming | May 28, 2012 |
| American opera singer Renée Fleming works with four young singers, refining their technique and teaching them new methods to improve their voices. | |||
| 11 | 2 | Bobby McFerrin | February 12, 2013 |
| 12 | 3 | John Guare | March 4, 2013 |
| 13 | 4 | Patti LuPone | April 1, 2013 |
| 14 | 5 | James Rosenquist | May 22, 2013 |
| 15 | 6 | Bruce Weber | May 22, 2013 |
| 16 | 7 | Kathleen Turner | May 22, 2013 |
Season 3 (2013–14)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Guest | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1 | Wynton Marsalis | September 9, 2013 |
| 18 | 2 | Josh Groban | January 21, 2014 |
| 19 | 3 | Anna Deavere Smith | February 17, 2014 |
| 20 | 4 | Alan Alda | September 16, 2014[6] |
| 21 | 5 | Joshua Bell | October 14, 2014[6] |
An additional upcoming guest is Robert Redford.[6]
References
- ↑ Genzlinger, Neil, "No Ordinary Teachers in These Schoolrooms ", New York Times, 16 April 2010
- ↑ Levin, Jordan, "Masters inspire awe, bright ideas", Miami Herald, 18 April 2010
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sick, Jessica, "Mastering the Class, NBC Miami, April 16, 2010
- ↑ Emmy Awards (2011). Nominations
- ↑ Amarante, Joe, "Tips from the legends: Viewers take the 'Masterclass' on HBO Sunday", New Haven Register, April 16, 2010
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "YoungArts Masterclass". YoungArts. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
External links
- Masterclass on HBO (official website)
- Masterclass on Simon & Goodman Picture Company (official website)
- Masterclass (2010) at the Internet Movie Database