Now, you can preview a clip from the film, which is set to air on WLIW21 on Tuesday, September 28 & Wednesday, September 29 at 10 p.m. In this excerpt, writer Mike Barnicle talks about the baseball gloves he has been holding onto since 1954:

Check back here for more clips and behind-the-scenes looks at The Tenth Inning and the local NY version, New York Baseball Memories, through September.

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Grammy Award-winning rocker Peter Frampton autographed two Les Paul electric guitars, donated by Gibson, to support WLIW21’s broadcast of Wolfgang’s Vault Presents Day on the Green 1977, premiering Saturday, August 14 at 8 p.m. Donate now to snag one — available online only.

Peter Frampton explains why he supports public television and you should too:

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Recorded July 2, 1977 and locked away in the archives of legendary promoter Bill Graham ever since, Wolfgang’s Vault Presents Day on the Green 1977 features performances by Peter Frampton and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The concert captures Frampton at the height of the fan frenzy that followed his record-breaking 1976 album Frampton Comes Alive, which made him a household name and remains one of the top-selling live albums of all time. His charismatic performance features hits “Baby I Love Your Way,” “Show Me the Way” and “Do You Feel Like We Do.”

“I saw this video for the first time recently in my kitchen, and I couldn’t believe it! It brings back great memories of a great time,” said Peter Frampton of the public television program.

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This extraordinary concert event has been sealed within Wolfgang’s Vault and is now available for the first time exclusively through public television as the new broadcast special and DVD, Wolfgang’s Vault Presents Day on the Green 1977, as part of WNET.ORG’s landmark Public Television Rocks! initiative. The concert premieres nationwide on public television throughout August and September (check local listings or contact your local station).

“Public Television Rocks! is all about bringing audiences unique music content and experiences that are not available anywhere else. WNET worked with Bill Graham in the 70s so we jumped at the chance to work with Wolfgang’s Vault,” said Joshua C. Nathan, Vice President of Business Development and Institutional Strategy at WNET.ORG. “Music fans are hungry for this kind of television programming. We are thrilled to co-present this classic summer concert by Peter Frampton and Lynyrd Skynyrd for the first time ever.”

Wolfgang’s Vault is the world-renown online archive of vintage concert recordings dedicated to live music, which since 2003 has provided over 3,500 concert audio recordings streamed free. With this public television special and DVD, Wolfgang’s Vault opens its long-awaited Video Vault, giving music fans worldwide access to thousands of great concert videos from the past five decades.

Bill Sagan, CEO of Wolfgang’s Vault, noted: “We are thrilled to be working with these performers to share these great recordings in support of public television. WNET.ORG and WLIW21 have been great co-producers to ensure music fans across the country can experience this show.”

Donate now for the exclusive Wolfgang’s Vault Presents Day on the Green 1977 DVD, Peter Frampton’s autographed Gibson Les Paul electric guitar, and more!

Tune in or set your DVR for the premiere of Wolfgang’s Vault Presents Day on the Green 1977 Saturday, August 14 at 8 p.m. on WLIW21. Preview more of the concert now.

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Shoreline Sonata: A Long Island Love Story will air as part of 21 Weeks of Summer on Monday August 2 at 9 p.m. and Saturday, August 7 at 9 p.m.
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ALL-AMERICAN SALUTE TO FOOD
Marathon Saturday, July 3 from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on WLIW21
From frosty favorites to fireside feasts, gear up for your Independence Day festivities with delicious recipes from your favorite public television cooking series. In Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen (11:30 a.m.), learn how to use a conventional grill to make some favorite Indian barbeque dishes like saffron chicken tikka kebabs and tandoori salmon. At 12 noon, the Everyday Food team demonstrates recipes for grilling outside during the summer or inside on the stovetop grill pan any time. In Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie (12:30 p.m.) Ruth Reichl travels to a 4th of July BBQ in Massachusetts to stay up all night as a great chef shows off an entire range of grilling traditions and techniques. Later, in the Gourmet kitchen, learn about the easiest thing you can grill in your own backyard. At 1 p.m., Christopher Kimball and his team get down to basics with lessons about cooking steak and potatoes in America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated. The marathon continues at 1:30 p.m. with a look at favorite foods: discover the light-hearted history of ketchup as Ketchup: King of Condiments delves into little-known facts about the condiment’s origins, development and interesting uses; at 2 p.m. Rick Sebak presents An Ice Cream Show and at 3 p.m. A Hot Dog Program.

Watch an excerpt from An Ice Cream Show:

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A CAPITOL FOURTH 2009
Saturday, July 3 at 4 p.m.
Get ready for this year’s event with last year’s show featuring Barry Manilow performing a medley of hits and patriotic classics, along with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the late Erich Kunzel and the Choral Arts Society of Washington. Other performers include “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin, international pop sensation Natasha Bedingfield, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning cast of Jersey Boys, singer/pianist Michael Feinstein, and acclaimed classical pianist Andrew von Oeyen. As a special family treat, Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, and others from the Sesame Street gang perform a musical medley to celebrate both America’s 233rd birthday and The Muppets 40 years on public television! A stunning fireworks display lights up the D.C. skyline, followed by the traditional audience favorite, Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” featuring live cannons fired by the United States Army Presidential Salute Battery.

Host Jimmy Smits shares his thoughts on the annual event:

TEN CRUCIAL DAYS – THE ROAD TO LIBERTY
Saturday, July 3 at 5:30 p.m.
This half-hour film examines the significance of General George Washington’s Continental Army 1776 Christmas-night crossing of the Delaware River. The documentary recounts this dramatic escape — one immortalized in Emanuel Leutze’s epic painting — along with the three American victories at the Battle of Trenton, and the lesser-known Second Battle of Trenton and Battle of Princeton. The events of these 10 days forever altered the course of history and marked a major turning point in America’s battle for independence. Ten Crucial Days tells a story of survival and triumph on the banks of the Delaware River through quotes from letters and diaries, illustrations, paintings, maps, artifacts, military re-enactments and location footage. Nationally recognized historians provide background information, critical analysis of the events and colorful anecdotes about the Revolutionary War figures.

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
Saturday, July 3 at 9 p.m.
Ken Burns explores both the history of America’s premier symbol and the meaning of liberty itself in the compelling and provocative hour-long special. For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants. Featuring rare archival photographs, paintings and drawings, readings from actual diaries, letters and newspapers of the day, the fascinating story of this universally admired monument is told.

3,2,1 FIREWORKS
Sunday, July 4 at 9 p.m.
Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Washington, D.C. July 4th celebration, featuring one of the largest and most colorful fireworks displays in the world. The program opens in China as the crew observes the making of fireworks and dazzling new pyrotechnic effects. Once the fireworks are shipped to America, an army of technicians undertake the delicate and dangerous task of setting up thousands of explosives-filled mortar tubes in preparation for the spectacular display.

A CAPITOL FOURTH 2010
Premieres Sunday, July 4 at 9:30 p.m. on WLIW21
This year’s multi-award-winning A Capitol Fourth celebration will be hosted by Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Jimmy Smits, with unrivaled performances by some of the country’s best-known musicians, including seven-time Grammy Award-winning music legend Gladys Knight; multiple Grammy, CMA and ACM Award-winning country music superstar Reba McEntire; country music sensation Darius Rucker; singer David Archuleta (American Idol); actor and singer John Schneider; and renowned classical pianist Lang Lang with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of top pops conductor Jack Everly. A Capitol Fourth is broadcast from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol before a concert audience of hundreds of thousands, millions more at home and to our service members around the world on the American Forces Network. A Capitol Fourth can also be heard live in stereo over NPR member stations nationwide. Bringing viewers the most spectacular fireworks display anywhere in the nation, the 30th annual broadcast will capture the stunning pyrotechnics from every vantage point with 18 TV cameras stationed around the city — including the U.S. Capitol, the White House, the Washington Monument, and across the Potomac River. In tribute to America’s 234th birthday, the show will be capped off with a rousing rendition of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” complete with live cannon fire provided by the United States Army Presidential Salute Battery, an audience favorite and now A Capitol Fourth tradition.

Watch a preview
For more information on this year’s event, visit pbs.org/capitolfourth.

Get ready for the Live from the Artists Den season two premiere featuring Ringo Starr with Ben Harper and Relentless7 plus special guest Joan Osborne – Saturday, July 10 at 10 p.m. – with a special marathon of last season’s concerts by extraordinary artists in extraordinary settings.

The marathon begins late night Saturday, June 19 at 12 midnight with a hits-filled performance by seven-time Grammy Award-winning, pop singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette, recorded at Judson Memorial Church in New York City; followed by soul singer/producer Raphael Saadiq (Tony! Toni! Toné!; Lucy Pearl) at the Harvard Club in Boston (1 a.m.); singer/songwriter Jakob Dylan, lead singer of platinum-selling band The Wallflowers and the son of Bob Dylan, at Desmond Tutu Cultural Center in New York City (2 a.m.); indie-pop sensation Ingrid Michaelson at Cape Cinema, a 1930s movie theater in Cape Cod (3 a.m.); iconic feminist singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the oldest art museum in the United States (4 a.m.); and classic rock-inspired indie band The Hold Steady at a former bank cum designated NYC landmark (5 a.m.). Ben Harper’s performance at the 2007 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival will air Saturday, June 26 at 10 p.m. as part of WLIW21’s 21 Weeks of Summer, and later that night the Live from the Artists Den marathon continues with performances from Patty Griffin (12 midnight), The Swell Season (1 a.m.), Aimee Mann (2 a.m.), Crowded House (3 a.m.), KT Tunstall (4 a.m.), and Josh Ritter (5 a.m.).

Each episode of the weekly series features an intimate, invitation-only concert by cutting-edge, contemporary musicians, along with artist interviews and insights about the unusual venues chosen. Live from the Artists Den season two features Tori Amos, David Gray, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Black Crowes, Dierks Bentley, and Booker T. and the Drive-By Truckers with special guest Bettye Lavette.

Preview Live from the Artists Den season two now:

Listen to performances from Live from the Artists Den season two:

Learn more at wnet.org/artistsden and don’t forget to set your DVR!

Set to air in the fall of 2010, The Tenth Inning will follow the triumphs and trials of baseball from 1993 through 2008, including its growing popularity on a global scale, and the scandals surrounding performance-enhancing drugs. The film is co-directed by Burns and Lynn Novick, and co-written and produced by Burns, Novick, and David McMahon.

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The results are in: 84% picked Will Hedgecock! See his New York public television premiere on Saturday, June 5 at 6 p.m.

Will Hedgecock

Tentative Song List:
Dream Lover
Bring Him Home
Crying
Desperado
An American Trilogy…
I Don’t Know
Send in the Clowns
Ava Maria
Time to Say Goodbye…
Cara Mia
Motown Medley: Mickey’s Monkey, The Tracks of My Tears, My Girl, Duke of Earl, Reach Out (I’ll Be There), Baby I Need Your Loving, and Sherry

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National Memorial Day Concert 2009
Saturday, May 29 at 4 p.m.
Get ready for this year’s event with last year’s show featuring American leader Colin L. Powell; actress Katie Holmes and Academy Award-winner Dianne Wiest; actor Laurence Fishburne; recording artist Katharine McPhee; country music superstar Trace Adkins; Broadway stars Brian Stokes Mitchell and Colm Wilkinson (Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera); acclaimed opera star Denyce Graves; classical music superstar Lang Lang, named one of the 2009 TIME 100 (Time magazine); and violin virtuoso Robert McDuffie in performance with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the late maestro Erich Kunzel. Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise and Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna co-host the show from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Learn more at pbs.org/memorialdayconcert.

3,2,1 Fireworks
Saturday, May 29 at 5:30 p.m. and Monday, May 31 at 10:30 p.m.
Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Washington, D.C. July 4th celebration, featuring one of the largest and most colorful fireworks displays in the world. The program opens in China as the crew observes the making of fireworks and dazzling new pyrotechnic effects. Once the fireworks are shipped to America, an army of technicians undertake the delicate and dangerous task of setting up thousands of explosives-filled mortar tubes in preparation for the spectacular display.

National Memorial Day Concert 2010
Premieres Monday, May 31 at 9 p.m.
Co-hosted for the fifth year by Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise and Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna, two acclaimed actors who have dedicated themselves to veterans’ causes and supporting our troops in active service. Joining them will be an all-star line-up of dignitaries, actors and musical artists that includes distinguished American leader Colin L. Powell USA (Ret.); multiple Grammy Award-winning music legend Lionel Richie; Emmy Award-winning actress Blythe Danner; Grammy Award-winning country music artist Brad Paisley, among others. In addition, the National Symphony Orchestra will perform under the direction of top pops conductor Jack Everly. The evening, which has become an American tradition, offers a time to reflect, remember, heal and bring our country together. Learn more at pbs.org/memorialdayconcert.

Watch a backstage interview with Sinise and Mantega, where they discuss the family connections that make hosting the show so personal for them:

4TROOPS: Live from the Intrepid
Exclusive Premiere Wednesday June 2 at 9 p.m.

The new pop vocal group 4TROOPS has been making the radio and TV talk show rounds over the past few months. Their wonderful voices aren’t the only thing driving media interest and fandom—it’s their story: 4TROOPS is made up of United States combat veterans who served on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan, As 4TROOPS, Former CPT Meredith Melcher, Former SGT Daniel Jens, SSG (Ret.) Ron Henry and Former SGT David Clemo share their experiences as a voice for troops — honoring the sacrifices of soldiers and military families in song and creating awareness for their needs.

WLIW21 is honored to premiere the 4TROOPS’s debut performance special filmed March 15, 2010 at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, one of America’s leading historic, cultural and educational institutions. The concert features an inspirational repertoire of well-known patriotic and pop hits including “Galveston,” “You Raise Me Up,” “Amazing Grace,” “Angel,” and “For Freedom.” All of the songs take on a special meaning in the context that they are performed by these four combat heroes.

4TROOPS: Live from the Intrepid is sure to inspire all American citizens, regardless of politics. Engaging viewers on the emotional front lines of military life, 4TROOPS have lived the lyrics they sing, from the solitude of sleepless nights without shelter to the challenges and joys of homecomings, from the heartache of mourning fellow soldiers to the honor of patriotic service.

Preview “For Freedom” now:

Learn more and donate for 4TROOPS concert tickets, CDs & DVDs.

Preview videos of each concert and vote now for who you want to see in June.

Nikki Yanofsky: Live in Montreal
Millions of people were first introduced to 16-year-old singer/prodigy Nikki Yanofsky when she performed during the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.  To Canadian audiences, however, Nikki is already a famous and accomplished singer, beginning her career at 14 as the hit of the Montreal Music Festival, and recently reaching triple platinum sales of Canada’s #1 selling single: “Dare to Dream.”

Experience her unique blend of jazz, classic pop and original songs in her first PBS special, shot in high definition at the legendary Mercure Theatre in Montreal.  

Song List:
I Got Rhythm
Old MacDonald
Over the Rainbow
Lullaby of Birdland
Ooh Child
Sunny Side of the Street
Cool My Heels
Love’s in Need of Love
For Another Day
Air Mail Special
God Bless the Child
Thinking of Someone
Circle Game
I Got Rhythm (reprise)

Preview Nikki’s concert and vote now if you want to see her in June on WLIW21

Will Hedgecock: Live from the Saenger
From timeless R&B and adult contemporary standards to classical and doo wop, Will Hedgecock performs with members of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra and Nashville vocalists at the historic and newly renovated Saenger Theater in downtown Pensacola, Florida. Hedgecock began singing with the renowned Pensacola Children’s Chorus when he was eight years old and traveled all over the world as the chorus’ lead singer – even performing at the White House. Recorded September 2009, Hedgecock’s PBS concert shows why he is the voice of a new generation of exceptional new performers.

Tentative Song List:
Dream Lover
Bring Him Home
Crying
Desperado
An American Trilogy…
I Don’t Know
Send in the Clowns
Ava Maria
Time to Say Goodbye…
Cara Mia
Motown Medley:  Mickey’s Monkey, The Tracks of My Tears, My Girl, Duke of Earl, Reach Out (I’ll Be There), Baby I Need Your Loving, and Sherry

Preview Will’s concert and vote now if you want to see him in June on WLIW21 .

Elaine Paige: Celebrating a Life Onstage
Elaine Paige is an English singer and actress best known for her work in musical theatre. She made her first professional appearance on stage in 1964 and her appearance in the 1968 production of Hair marked her West End debut.

Following a number of roles over the next decade, Paige was selected to play Eva Peron in the first production of Evita in 1978 for which she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Performance of the Year in a Musical; went on to originate the role of Grizabella in Cats and had a Top 10 hit with “Memory;” and released “I Know Him So Well” with Barbara Dickson from the musical Chess, which remains the biggest-selling record by a female duo.

Filmed in 2009 at the State Theatre in Sydney, Australia, during her sell-out 40th anniversary tour, Elaine Paige: Celebrating a Life Onstage takes you on a journey from her beginnings in the musical Hair to performances from Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Chess, Cats, Sunset Boulevard, and many more from the West End to Broadway. Elaine also entertains with amusing and enlightening anecdotes from her illustrious career.

Song List:
Life Goes On
Easy to Be Hard
I Don’t know How to Love You
Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
As If
I Dreamed A Dream
I Know him So Well
Memory

Preview Elaine’s concert and vote now if you want to see her in June on WLIW21.

13: The program describes the “Fun City” moniker as true for some and ironic for others. What does the term mean, or what did it mean for different people?

TC: During the transit strike that greeted him on his first day as mayor — and pretty much crippled the city’s functioning, Lindsay remarked that despite it all, New York was still a “fun city.” The press siezed on the term, but often used it ironically because, as our film shows, these were particularly turbulent times, and a lot of New Yorkers weren’t having a lot of fun.

13: The program touches briefly upon the idea that the seeds of the Lindsay years’ turmoil had been sown during the Wagner administration, when city planners aggressively encouraged white flight and the destruction of middle class and minority neighborhoods. Do you think Lindsay’s critics judge his failures too harshly in light of the economic forces set in motion prior to his inauguration?

TC: FUN CITY REVISITED is decidedly not an attempt to judge either Lindsay or his critics, harshly or otherwise. Rather it is a film that seeks to evoke an extraordinary time and place, both for those older folks who remember it, for whom Lindsay and the passion he evoked is still very much alive, and for those younger ones for whom Lindsay is a figure out of an American past they never knew, as distant as FDR or Ulysses S. Grant.

13: Many of John Lindsay’s young aides joined the administration as progressive idealists intent on improving the lives of New Yorkers across the social and economic spectrum, and yet their administration’s time in City Hall is remembered mostly as a failure. What regrets, if any, did the former aides you interviewed for the film express?

TC: These people don’t strike me as regretful. Rather, they are still passionate believers in the ideals Lindsay represented. He is the one who brought them into politics, and the ones I talked to are carrying the same torch they carried back in the day.
13: What do you think John Lindsay would think of NYC today?
TC: I have no way of knowing, but from what I know of him I think he’d take a look at it and try and figure out how to make it better.

13: There’s been a huge response to “Share Your Story” on the program’s website. Why do you think people feel so strongly about this time in NYC history?

TC: The best answer to that question is found, I think, by watching the film.

Fun City Revisited: The Lindsay Years, premieres Wednesday, May 12 at 10p.m. on WLIW21.