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Music

  • Carol Channing

    Carol Channing discusses her film and stage career

    Jan. 28, 1972
  • Ryland Davies and Margaret Price discuss opera and their performance in Mozart's "Don Giovanni"

    1972
  • Lawrence (Bud) Freeman discusses his career as a jazz tenor sax player and his album "Complete Bud Freeman"

    Apr. 15, 1982
  • Sir Geraint Evans

    Sir Geraint Evans discusses his career in opera

    Dec. 9, 1969
  • Janis Ian discusses her career

    1970
  • Marian McPartland discusses her career

    Apr. 13, 1977
  • Luciano Pavarotti

    Luciano Pavarotti discusses performing

    Nov. 20, 1975
  • Hugh Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie

    Hugh Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie discussing the book "The New Grove Dictionary of American Music"

    Nov. 4, 1986
  • Billy Taylor discusses the people and music that influenced his career as a jazz composer and pianist

    Aug. 24, 1977
  • Frederick Douglass

    Studs Terkel presents a program in honor of the birthday of abolitionist and African American leader Frederick Douglass

    Feb. 15, 1971
  • Interviewing Roger Sessions ; part 1

    Jan. 25, 1961
  • Anthony Braxton discusses his music and jazz

    Aug. 24, 1989
  • Discussing jazz music with cabaret performer and jazz vocalist Spider Saloff

    May. 14, 1997
  • Ollie Gilbert and Jimmie Driftwood discuss music ; part 2

    May. 25, 1964
  • Interviewing oral historian, folk musician and musicologist Jesus "Chuy" Negrete

    Oct. 24, 1997
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