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  • Presenting music with actress and cabaret singer Andrea Marcovicci

    May. 10, 1993

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by Andrea Marcovicci

  • Presenting music performed by storyteller and musician David Holt

    Jul. 7, 1988

    Terkel comments and presents a performance by David Holt

  • 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 His Majestie's Clerkes, a 21-member a capella choir, with Artistic Director Anne Heider

    Sep. 19, 1991

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance of His Majestie's Clerkes

  • Presenting maritime music with folk singer and songwriter Lee Murdock

    May. 29, 1991

    Terkel comments and presents maritime music with Lee Murdock

  • Presenting classical Hindustani music with the Dagar Brothers

    Apr. 27, 1983
  • Presenting cabaret songs with Paris-born, American singer Claudia Hommel

    Aug. 12, 1997

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance with Claudia Hommel

  • Presenting a performance of tap dance music by Jim Roberts

    Sep. 10, 1985

    Musical performance by Jim Roberts

  • Presenting a live musical performance of African American vaudeville sketches, songs and dances called "Rollin' with Stevens and Stewart," by Ronald "Smokey" Stewart and Jaye Stevens.

    Jun. 13, 1991

    Live musical performance by Smokey Stewart and Jaye Stevens

  • 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.

  • Phyl Garland discusses her book "Sound of Soul" and the history of black music in America ; part 2

    Nov. 25, 1968

    Studs interviews Phyl Garland about her book "Sound of Soul." They discuss various musicians that she mentions in her book and their influence on black music. Garland explains the music of young black artists and how commercialization of music gave blacks an opportunity that they would not have had otherwise. Garland talks about how Fannie Lou Hamer used music to express her message in the Civil Rights Movement and as a women's rights activist. Studs and Garland discuss various black female artists and their music.

  • Phoebe Legere in conversation with Studs Terkel

  • Patrick Henry, Tricia Alexander in conversation with Studs Terkel

    May. 21, 1986

    Discussing PROJECT! with Free Street Theater founder Pat Henry and lyricist Tricia Alexander. Produced by the Free Street Theater, PROJECT! is a series of inner-city vignettes in song and dance about life in an inner-city housing project. All of the actor

  • Patrick Henry and cast discuss the plays he's directing "To Life" and "What Do You Want to be When You Grow Old"

    1984

    Interviewing the company of Free Street Too with Pat Henry, Free Street Theater founder and producer. Free Street Theater is an arts outreach organization that provides workshops in writing, theater, music and dance and stages performances for populations

  • Norman Wallace discusses his music career

    Jun. 8, 1980

    Norman Wallace discusses his music career. Norman Wallace discusses his occupations as a pianist and a songwriter.

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