Faust Overture Faust Overture The Faust Overture is a concert overture by German composer Richard Wagner. Wagner originally composed it between 1839 and 1840, intending it to be the first movement of a "Faust Symphony" based on the play "Faust" by German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Realizing that he would not finish the planned symphony, Wagner revised the piece between 1843 and 1844, incorporating ideas from the other planned movements, and creating instead a single-movement concert overture. He made a final revision in 1855. The work is one of Wagner's few compositions intended for the concert hall, rather than the theatre.
Video Concert Hall Video Concert Hall, Ltd. at studios in Atlanta, Georgia. Crowe and Henderson served as executive producers of "Video Concert Hall", as well as other top-rated syndicated musical variety TV specials. "Billboard", the American magazine covering the music industry, said in a cover story that "Video Concert Hall" was the first-ever nationwide video music programming on cable television predating MTV by almost three years. "Video Concert Hall" creators Charles Henderson and Jerry Crowe are considered the "fathers" of television's music video programming. "Video Concert Hall" ran daily on USA Network from 1978 to 1981 on a seemingly arbitrary schedule, appearing on