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  • Roger Sessions discusses his career and upcoming performance at Northwestern ; part 2

    Jan. 25, 1961

    Composer and Pulitzer prize winner for music Roger Sessions discusses his music and its reception by the Russian people. Sessions is known for his admiration for music genres such as modern music and its influence in his compositions.

  • Jean Komaiko and Dr. Quentin Young

    Jean Komaiko and Dr. Quentin Young discuss hunger in Chicago

    Feb. 6, 1969

    Joan Komaiko saw there were kids who could buy cartons of milk for four cents and the other kids who couldn't afford the milk, sat and watched the ones who drank the milk. Komaiko wrote a letter to the school board pointing out how kids couldn't do well at school because they were sent to school hungry. Dr. Quentin Young explained that the government needs to provide the children with breakfast and lunch at the schools because those two meals were probably the only meals children would receive that day.

  • Interview with Helena Carroll and Terry Lomax

    Mar. 25, 1968

    Discussing Bertolt Brecht's "A man's a man."

  • Ida Kaminska

    Ida Kaminska discusses her career

    Apr. 13, 1966

    Through an interpreter, Madame Ida Kaminska discusses her role in the film "The Shop on Main Street." Both her mother and father were actors, too. Madame Kaminska explains she comes from a family of actors from 100 years ago.

  • Frederick Ritter

    Frederick Ritter discusses Bertolt Brecht and philosophy of epic German theater with in studio performances

    May. 3, 1962

    Frederick Ritter discusses the life and work of playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht and preforms a few his songs. He also discusses the philosophy of epic theater and literature in Germany. Sabina Roupp joins Ritter with Brecht's music.

  • Discussing Bertolt Brecht, with Eric Bentley

    Jan. 10, 1973

    The British-American theater critic and playwright joins Studs to discuss the work of German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Carlos Fuentes discusses his books "Burnt Water" and "Distant Relations"

    Jun. 6, 1982

    Discussing the books "Burnt water" and "Distant relations" with the author Carlos Fuentes.

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