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Musicians Music Music - Classical Music & Opera
  • Interviewing Jim Bolle and children from the orchestra and cast of "Noye's Fludde"

    Jun. 23, 1965

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

  • Rita Streich discusses her upcoming recital and Studs plays selections ; part 2

    Feb. 17, 1962
  • Elisabeth Schwarzkopf discusses her role as The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier ; part 2

    Nov. 2, 1960
  • Interviewing Madame Lotte Lehmann at Northwestern University

    Nov. 6, 1964
  • Rita Streich discusses her upcoming recital and Studs plays selections ; part 3

    Feb. 17, 1962
  • Licia Albanese

    Licia Albanese discusses her opera performances

    Feb. 27, 1960

    Licia Albanese discusses her performance preparations, advice to young new opera singers, the conductor techniques from Fausto Cleva, and the late Arturo Toscanini.

  • Rita Streich

    Rita Streich discusses her upcoming recital and Studs plays selections ; part 1

    Feb. 17, 1962
  • Marian Anderson

    Interviewing Marian Anderson and James De Preist

    1966

    Interviewing Marian Anderson and James De Preist.

  • Jan Eaglen

    Jane Eaglen discusses her career as an opera performer

    Mar. 26, 1996

    Jan Eaglen, British soprano, discusses her career as an opera singer and trends in opera music.

  • 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.

  • Rosa Raisa

    Rosa Raisa, in Chicago for the restoration of the Auditorium Theater, reflects on her career

    Dec. 13, 1961
  • Interview with Paul Ulanowsky

  • Marian Anderson

    Interviewing Marian Anderson and James De Preist

    1966

    Interviewing Marian Anderson and James De Preist.

  • Placido Domingo

    Placido Domingo discusses his career as a tenor singer

    Dec. 14, 1979

    Placido Domingo discusses his career as a tenor singer and conductor, including his role in the film "Otello" directed by Franco Zeffirelli and based on the opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

  • Janos Starker

    Janos Starker discusses his career

    1965
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