The Rose (Criterion Collection)Bette Midler exploded onto the screen with her take no prisoners performance in this quintessential film about fame and addiction from director Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond). Midler is the rock and roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road. Incisively scripted by Bo Goldman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and

that knows no stopping and is constantly moving forward to new music discoveries

mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford and tenor Noah Stewart

based in Philadelphia

de la Vega offers the first recording of a Concerto in D by Myslivecek

folk and good ol' American eccentricity makes Dan Hicks one of our national treasures

Included are the breakthrough

Julian Priester on trombone

experiential

After the performance of Bruckner's Seventh

"Fallen Blixkys

which premiered in 1814 at the famous Teatro La Fenice in Venice but was only ever rarely performed afterwards

During his years John Hurt revealed himself as a living