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Music personnel

  • John Jacob Niles talks with Studs Terkel

    Nov. 13, 1964
  • Franz Schulze talks with Studs Terkel Part 1

    Apr. 16, 1962
  • Alexander Tcherepnin

    Alexander Tcherepnin discusses his career

    Nov. 10, 1959
  • Duke Ellington

    Harriet Choice discusses the career of Duke Ellington and promotes the Grant Park 5th Annual Tribute to Duke Ellington concert

    Aug. 25, 1978
  • Ned Rorem discusses his career

    Mar. 22, 1984
  • Dizzy Gillespie

    Dizzy Gillespie discusses the art of jazz ; part 1

    Mar. 30, 1961
  • Ella Jenkins discusses her music and her influences

    Dec. 7, 1963
  • A conversation with Michael Tilson Thomas and his father Ted Thomas (Tomashefsky)

    Oct. 8, 1986
  • Franz Schulze talks with Studs Terkel Part 2

    Apr. 16, 1962
  • Barbara Cook discusses her musical Broadway career and shift into opera with her soprano voice

    Feb. 13, 1981
  • Discussing Soviet avant garde music with Joel Sachs

    May. 12, 1982
  • Singer-songwriters Florence Reece and Pete Seeger discuss writing songs

    Mar. 17, 1978
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