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  • Presenting music with Teresa Orantes, Laura Fenster, and Dan Tucker

    Oct. 15, 1992

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by Teresa Orantes, Dan Tucker, and Laura Fenster

  • Presenting music with pianist and composer Larry Schanker

    May. 30, 1991

    Musical performance by Larry Schanker

  • Presenting music from "Orpheus Descending: An Opera in Two Acts," with composer Bruce Saylor

    May. 19, 1994

    Performance of Orpheus descending

  • Presenting music from "Fancy Meeting You: The Lyrics of E.Y. "Yip" Harburg," with Phillip Officer and Tex Arnold

    May. 6, 1997

    Terkel comments and presents music from "Fancy Meeting You."

  • Presenting music by composer and improvisational pianist William Allaudin Mathieu

    Jan. 7, 1983

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by Bill Mathieu

  • Arnold Jacobs, Harvey Phillips, Fritz Kaenzig, and Richard Frazier

    Presenting music and discussing the tuba with tubists Arnold Jacobs, Harvey Phillips, Fritz Kaenzig, and Richard Frazier

    Feb. 20, 1987

    Presenting music and discussing the tuba with tubists Arnold Jacobs, Harvey Phillips, Fritz Kaenzig, and Richard Frazier. This mixdown includes recorded and live music in the last three minutes.

  • Presenting jazz with Bill Leonard and Frank Holzfeind

    1975

    Presenting jazz with Bill Leonard and Frank Holzfeind

  • Presenting a performance of Ragtime music by David Thomas Roberts.

    Jan. 26, 1988
  • Presenting a musical performance by composer and author Ned Rorem

    Apr. 27, 1989

    Musical performance by Ned Rorem

  • Presenting 18th and 19th century American parlor music with members of the Oriana Singers and Director Bill Chin

    Oct. 31, 1989

    Terkel comments and presents a performance of 18th and 19th century American parlor music

  • Presenting "Pasiones [Songs of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939]," with Jamie O'Reilly and Michael Smith

    Apr. 25, 1997

    Terkel comments and presents songs of the Spanish Civil War

  • Phyl Garland discusses themes from her book "Sound of Soul" and the black influence on music ; part 1

    Nov. 25, 1968

    Studs interviews Phyl Garland about her book "Sound of Soul." They discuss the history of music and how black music influenced white music. Studs reads a quote from her book where she quoted Lerone Bennett. Garland also reads from her book a few times. They discuss how music changed over time for blacks from spirituals to slave songs to the blues because it was a reflection of their lives. Garland explains how blacks used music to help them through their trials and frustrations.

  • Peter Schickele performs and lectures on the music of composer P.D.Q. Bach

    Dec. 1, 1988

    Peter Schickele, the man behind the pseudonymous musical persona P.D.Q. Bach, gives a lecture on the oft-forgotten composer and sibling of Johann Sebastian Bach, playing and discussing a number of works by the fictitious composer.

  • Performance of music from the opera, Between two worlds

    Jun. 11, 1997
  • Performance from the Jazz Showcase

    Apr. 8, 1983

    Presenting music from a performance at the Jazz Showcase with Showcase organizer Joe Segal.

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