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  • Discussing the book "Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music" with the author, music historian Judith Tick

    Dec. 12, 1997
  • Discussing the book "Ragtime: Its History, Composers, and Music" with editor and music historian John Edward Hasse

    Jul. 2, 1985
  • Discussing the book "Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie" with the author, historian and critic Albert Murray

    Feb. 21, 1986
  • Discussing the book " Red and Hot: Jazz in the Soviet Union, 1917-1980" with the author, musicologist and jazz musician Dr. S. Frederick Starr

    Jun. 6, 1983
  • Discussing his autobiography "Perfect Pitch: A Life Story" with Russian-born musicologist, pianist and composer Nicolas Slonimsky

    Apr. 13, 1988

    *Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing Bach with composer, conductor and musicologist William Malloch

    Nov. 21, 1978
  • Discussing and listening to African-American music with Eileen Southern, musicologist and Harvard University Professor of African-American Studies

    Jun. 1, 1985
  • Duke Ellington

    Celebrating jazz composer and musician Duke Ellington's birthday with jazz scholar and historian Richard Wang

    Apr. 9, 1991

    Celebration for Duke Ellington's birthday

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