Interview with Jim Bolle and young musicians Cheryl Griffin, Clyde Jennings, Lotilda Hudson, Joseph Johnson, Stephen Graham.

American composer William Schuman discusses his career as a composer and music educator at the Juilliard School.

Interviewing Marian Anderson and James De Preist.

Interviewing Marian Anderson and James De Preist.

Part 1 of this program begins with Studs Terkel reading an excerpt from the book "Giants of Jazz" , which describes Dizzy Gillespie's early life. Gillespie discusses the following: the state of jazz; his fellow musicians; jazz contributors; jazz fundamentals; and his tours abroad. Gillespie's "Groovin' High" is played towards the end of this part of the program.

Bill Russo talks about the commedia dell'arte production being staged at the Center for New Music at Columbia College Chicago. The production includes two pieces, "Pedrolino's Revenge" and "Isabella's Fortune".

Aaron Copland discusses his music, his colleagues, contemporaries, musicians, and composers.

Interviewing composer Dominick Argento.

Interviewing Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom and mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.

Interviewing songwriter Sammy Cahn.

David Amram and Steve Goodman, composers and performers of popular music and folk music, discuss writing and creating music together. Both play and sing two improvised pieces in the studio with Studs.

Interviewing at Orchestra Hall with conductor Claudio Abbado and University of Chicago Professor of Music Philip Gossett.

Presenting selections from the Arabesque recording of Dmitrii Shostakovich's composition "Symphony no. 1, op. 10 Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, op. 35; Three movements from The Age of Gold ballet suite: op.22," with the conductor of the recorded