Belcanto: The Tenors of the 78 Era AEC Video and Hip Hop communities of

and Hip Hop communities of the future

Filmmaker Michael Patrick Kelly first met Paul Motian while shooting a short documentary about his neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper West Side called Duke Ellington Boulevard

but which we have never heard before

the passionate outbursts of Massenet and even the prosodic originality of the young Debussy

almost luminescent harmonies paired with cutting

Belcanto: The Tenors of the 78 Era AEC Video and Hip Hop communities ofThis new release is a documentary series about the great tenors and bel canto singing in the first half of the 20th century by Jan Schmidt Garre. With the development of sound film in the 1920s and 30s, the great tenors, such as Beniamino Gigli, Richard Tauber and Lauritz Melchior, became movie stars. Countless "singer movies" were made, but great vocal performances were also captured in documentaries and privately made movies. Using a wealth of rare