Botticelli in Hollywood

This 1987 documentary is distinguished by both its smart narrative premise and wonderful performance footage of Elvis Presley at the dawn of his remarkable career. With the King's melodramatic life already a familiar subject for film and print biographies, producer-directors Alan and Susan Raymond instead shaped this hour-long profile around the year that saw the charismatic Memphis singer's eruption as a pop sensation…

E4TT celebrates the release of E4TT's fifth album, "Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood," a recording of favorites from our multi-year exploration of rarely heard chamber works and movie arrangements by film composers who fled Europe in the 1930s and '40s, many going on to win multiple Academy Awards and helping create the characteristic Hollywood sound that shaped what we hear at the movies today. Featuring selections from the new recording by Erich Korngold, Miklos Rozsa, and Alexandre Tansman and more, plus "Cabaret Songs" ("Brettl Lieder") by Arnold Schoenberg.