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Music personnel

  • Interviewing composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

    Jan. 13, 1986
  • Discussing the book "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute To His White Mother" with the author, journalist and composer James McBride

    Jan. 26, 1996
  • Interviewing saxophonist and composer Paul Winter, Russian vocalist Dimitri Pokrovsky, and Marina Balaskova

    Aug. 10, 1988
  • Interviewing conductor James Conlon

    Nov. 3, 1988
  • Bill Russo

    Studs Terkel discusses contemporary American music with composer and trombonist Bill Russo

    May. 18, 1983
  • Interviewing Carlos Chavez ; part 1

    1964
  • Discussing the upcoming biography of American violinist Maud Powell with author Karen Shaffer and violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin. Program also includes a discussion of a Chicago performance by Menuhin (part 1 of 2).

    Mar. 4, 1986
  • William Bolcom and Joan Morris

    Interview with William Bolcom and Joan Morris

    Oct. 12, 1992
  • Interviewing Italian American composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Program also includes an excerpt from a 1971 interview with Menotti.

    Dec. 1, 1995
  • Discussing French flutist Marcel Moyse and listening to music with conductor and flutist Richard Wyszynski

    Dec. 11, 1989
  • Interview with William Chin and Kathleen Ginther

    Feb. 27, 1989
  • Discussing the book "Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius: From Fin-de-Siecle Vienna to Hollywood's Heyday" with the author, biographer and music critic Karen Monson

    Jan. 12, 1984
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