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Season 1

  • S01E01 Vivaldi: Something Completely Different

    • September 20, 2019
    • PBS

    Yoo chases the story of the most recorded piece of music in the world-Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." He discovers a new Vivaldi work, his connection to Stradivarius, original manuscripts, and that Vivaldi himself was almost lost to history.

  • S01E02 The Riddle of Bach

    • September 27, 2019
    • PBS

    Yoo goes to Germany to learn Bach's solo violin works, and discovers a riddle that Bach left in his portrait. In trying to solve it, Yoo and his wife Alice Dade, a leading flutist, discover Bach's true character.

  • S01E03 Scarlatti: Man Out of Time

    • October 4, 2019
    • PBS

    Scott travels to Spain and Morocco to discover the greatest composer you've never heard of: Domenico Scarlatti. He incorporated the exotic sounds of Spain to create a new musical language that inspired generations of composers after him.

  • S01E04 Handel: Italian Style

    • October 11, 2019
    • PBS

    Handel traveled with the Scarlatti family and learned from the masters of Italian Style. In Rome and central Italy, Scott takes in the art, architecture, fashion, food, wine, light and landscape that shaped Handel for the rest of his life.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Haydn: King of Strings

    • September 18, 2020
    • PBS

    Explore the work of famed composer Joseph Haydn’s career with host Scott Yoo and featured guest artists as he discovers how Haydn borrowed folk music from Scotland, Hungary and Austria to create his famous “Emperor Quartet.”

  • S02E02 The Schubert Generation

    • September 25, 2020
    • PBS

    Celebrate the work of Franz Schubert with host Scott Yoo as he plays with young musicians establishing themselves in North America's musical capitals by attempting to master the composer’s music.

  • S02E03 Becoming Mozart

    • October 2, 2020
    • PBS

    Travel with host Scott Yoo and pianist Stewart Goodyear as they visit Yoo’s Festival Mozaic where Goodyear learns to direct an orchestra from the piano while improvising the solos of Mozart’s twentieth piano concerto.

  • S02E04 Beethoven's Ghost

    • October 9, 2020
    • PBS

    Scott makes a landmark recording, centered around Beethoven's famous Ghost Trio. This summons the ghost of Beethoven, trailed by Sigmund Freud who’s intent on analyzing him, in this eccentric mix of documentary and ghost story.

Season 3

  • S03E01 American Romantic

    • April 8, 2022
    • PBS

    At his music festival, Scott plays America’s greatest Romantic composer, Amy Beach. In New England, he explores her roots and career. At a time when society looked down on women composers, Beach worked to invent a new American music.

  • S03E02 Florence Price and the American Migration

    • April 15, 2022
    • PBS

    Scott explores the newly rediscovered music of Florence Price, to understand how African-American spirituals — a mixture of West African songs and European hymns — influenced her work and nearly all of American popular music.

  • S03E03 Dean of American Music

    • April 22, 2022
    • PBS

    Scott spends a month each year teaching students, just as Aaron Copland did during his career. Together they’ll play Copland’s music to learn how he drew from his roots and American folk songs to invent the American sound.

  • S03E04 New American Voices

    • April 29, 2022
    • PBS

    Scott meets and plays with modern masters: Sergio Assad shows him how Brazilian music inspires his work, now staples of the classical canon. Reena Esmail draws from traditional Indian rhythms and scales to create her signature sound.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Piazzolla’s History with Tango

    • April 7, 2023
    • PBS

    Tango to Buenos Aires, Argentina, with host Scott Yoo and flutist Alice Dade to explore the evolution of composer Astor Piazzolla’s work and the music genre itself as it becomes fused with jazz across time and numerous instruments.

  • S04E02 Schumann: Genius and Madness

    • April 14, 2023
    • PBS

    Visit Scotland, Germany and France with host Scott Yoo as he investigates the connection between Robert Schumann’s bipolar disorder and creative genius via experts, musical performances and examining the work of other artists outside world of music.

  • S04E03 Andy Akiho Found (his) Sound

    • April 21, 2023
    • PBS

    Experience the creation of music from this Japanese American composer with host Scott Yoo using “found” instruments. To develop a music video, the two visit New York City and explore the creative process with an interactive light show and more.

  • S04E04 Albéniz: Portraits of Spain

    • April 28, 2023
    • PBS

    Discover the inspirations Spain provided composer Isaac Albéniz with host Scott Yoo, guitarist Manuel Barrueco, and pianist Juan Pérez Floristán along with musicians from Albéniz’s birthplace in the Pyrenees mountains as well as Sevilla, Mallorca and more.

Season 5

  • S05E01 Rising Stars

    At Julliard and in Singapore, Scott explores how teachers and parents raise star players.

  • S05E02 Virtuosos

    Scott meets virtuosos in many artforms to discover the secrets to their success.

  • S05E03 Old Friends

    Scott joins Yo-Yo Ma and his trio partners to explore 50 years of music and friendship.

  • S05E04 The Composer Is Yoo

    To compose his first work, Scott seeks inspiration from the greats, and his own heritage.