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Music

  • Interview with Elaine Scott Banks

    May. 12, 1987
  • Interview with Al Booth

    Dec. 6, 1990
  • Interviewing William Clauson and Jean Redpath

    Nov. 1, 1963
  • Jack Fuller in conversation with Studs Terkel

    May. 11, 1992
  • Discussing the book "Biography of a Hunch: The History of Chicago's Legendary Old Town School of Folk Music," with author Lisa Grayson and the Executive Director of the Old Town School of Folk Music, Jim Hirsch

    Feb. 11, 1993
  • Discussing the play "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill," with Eartha Kitt

    Apr. 30, 1996
  • Discussing Bach with composer, conductor and musicologist William Malloch

    Nov. 21, 1978
  • Presenting a history of jazz through various renditions of Jelly Roll Morton's composition "King Porter Stomp," with jazz critic John McDonough

    Feb. 5, 1987
  • Danny Newman in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Oct. 11, 1983
  • Interviewing British conductor Sir John Pritchard

    Dec. 15, 1987
  • Presenting music of Central Europe and the Balkans with the Slavic Projection Folk Ensemble

    Mar. 30, 1995
  • Interviewing former City of Chicago Jazz Festival producer Penny Tyler and jazz trumpeter Art Hoyle

    Feb. 18, 1993
  • Interviewing Cris Williamson and Tret Fure

    May. 7, 1993
  • Interview with members of the Chicago String Ensemble

    Mar. 4, 1993
  • Von Freeman, Kenny Prince, Bradley Parker-Sparrow, Joanie Pallatto in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Dec. 20, 1989
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