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.

Interviewing composer and pianist William Bolcom and mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.

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

Interviewing musician, composer, and teacher Terry Allen and actress Jo Harvey Allen.

Interviewing composer Frank Abbinanti and pianist Peter Gena.

Interviewing composer Dominick Argento.

Interviewing composer, conductor and musician David Amram.

Studs rebroadcasts an interview he did five years ago with George Flynn, composer and head of the music department at DePaul University. Flynn explains the creative part of his music and how worldly events such as the Vietnam War help him and other musicians like him, write their avant-garde music. Flynn defines some of his compositions that include: "Wound," "American Rest," and "Canal." He shares the people and events in his life from a teenager who have influenced his work.

Studs Terkel speaks with Charles Mingus about his life and work in the context of his autobiography "Beneath The Underdog".

Musician Anthony Braxton speaks with Studs Terkel about his music and the various musicians who have influenced him.