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Music Music - World Music
  • Terkel comments and presents musical performance of Pierre Bensusan

    Jun. 11, 1979

    Presenting music with Pierre Bensusan.

  • Charlie Byrd

    Terkel comments and presents musical performance of Charlie Byrd

    Aug. 31, 1977

    Presenting music performance with Charlie Byrd.

  • Teresa Orantes in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Oct. 22, 1975

    This program has been edited to remove copyright material.

  • Ted Alevizos discusses Greek culture and folk songs ; part 2

    Oct. 11, 1962

    Greek-American singer Ted Alevizos talks about Greek culture and history, and the folk songs and traditional dances of Greece.

  • Ted Alevizos discusses Greek culture and folk music ; part 1

    Oct. 11, 1962

    Greek-American singer Ted Alevizos talks about the various geographic influences on Greek folk music. He sings traditional Greek folk songs such as "An Pethano Sto Karavi."

  • Sylvia Woods

    Sylvia Woods discusses her book "Teach Yourself to Play the Folk Harp"

    Sep. 2, 1982

    Syvia Woods, an American, and 1980 All Ireland Harp Competition winner sits down with Studs Terkel in a wonderful discussion on the history of the folk harp and plays a variety of selections. As a self taught folk harper, she has written a book "Teach Yourself to Play the Folk Harp" for the absolute beginner. She is known as a harper and not harpist because she doesn't play the orchestra harp. She also discusses her involvement musically in a documentary for PBS entitled "Chicago Secret Wilderness", produced by Mike Hirsh. The folk harp is also known as the celtic harp or Irish harp.

  • Stomu Yamash'ta

    Studs Terkel interviews Japanese percussionist Stomu Yamash'ta

    Jun. 24, 1969

    The virtuoso percussionist, Stomu Yamash'ta, sits down with Studs Terkel and discusses from his heart how he creates the sound of his music. Sound is created in your head and heart. The ocean creates a different sound by day and night. Yamash'ta writes down his thoughts on the sounds he hears and creates the music. For the Akira Kurasawa film "YoJimbo" where he did solo musical work, he analyzed the character and what type of sound was in his mind and thought how to create it and convey that to his audience musically. Technology is not the answer to the development of sound.

  • Jacques Tati

    Studs Terkel discusses the film "Mon Oncle"with creator Jacques Tati

    Dec. 12, 1958

    Studs Terkel reintroduces this 1958 broadcast with Jacques Tati in a 1992 rebroadcast. At 39:06, Terkel includes a musical epilogue to the conversation with Jacques Tati with French children's songs such as "Cadet Rousselle". Tati discusses his films "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" and" Mon Oncle" and his emphasis as writer, director, actor, and producer to maintain a naturalness. He doesn't want lights, cameras or action to influence the actors. Naturalness will respect independence and keeping it simple and real will create pride and invite people in.

  • Studs Terkel comments and presents the Sophiatown Church of Christ the King ; part 3

    1963

    Presenting performances at the Sophiatown Church of Christ the King while Studs was in South Africa. They talked how they brought folk music back to South Africa.

  • Studs Terkel comments and presents the Sophiatown Church of Christ the King ; part 2

    1963

    Presenting performances at the Sophiatown Church of Christ the King while Studs was in South Africa. They talked how they brought folk music back to South Africa.

  • Sophiatown Church of Christ the King

    Studs Terkel comments and presents the Sophiatown Church of Christ the King ; part 1

    1963

    Presenting performances at the Sophiatown Church of Christ the King while Studs was in South Africa. They talked how they brought folk music back to South Africa.

  • Six members of The Klezmorim discuss klezmer music

    Apr. 2, 1981

    Six members of The Klezmorim discuss their musical upbringings, the history of klezmer music, and explain how song structures work and overlap. Songs played throughout are: "Moldovanke" by The Klezmorim, 2 songs by an unknown klemer band from the mid 1920s,"Papirosn" by The Klezmorim, "A Glezele Vayn (A Little Glass of Wine)" by The Klezmorim, and a live performance of "Papirosn" by The Klezmorim. All music performed by The Klezmorim were prerecorded off site. Music has been removed from this recording for copyright reasons.

  • Ravi Shankar discusses playing the sitar

    Oct. 26, 1983

    A master at playing the sitar, Ravi Shankar, also composed the music for the soundtrack of "Gandi". According to Shankar, there are 72 scales in Indian music and when he plays music, 90% of it is improvisation. Younger people became interested in playing the instrument after Shankar announced he was teaching George Harrison of the Beatles how to play the sitar. There is an excerpt of an interview with Shankar from 22 years ago, to the date of this program.

  • Presenting a recorded performance of Shay Duffin portraying Irish playwright and author Brendan Behan

    May. 25, 1988

    Terkel comments and presents a recorded performance of Shay Duffin

  • Presenting a performance of the Mexican ensemble Los Folkloristas

    Feb. 5, 1991
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