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  • Presenting a performance of the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus with music director Lucy Ding

    Mar. 3, 1989

    Terkel presents a musical performance of the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus

  • Presenting a performance of "Papageno," an adaptation of Mozart's "The Magic Flute," with the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus and music director Sandra Prodan

    Mar. 6, 1991

    Terkel presents a musical performance of the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus

  • Windy City Gay Chorus

    Presenting a performance by the Windy City Gay Chorus

    May. 22, 1989

    Musical performance of the Windy City Gay Chorus

  • Presenting a performance by the Czech chamber music group Vlach Quartet Prague and a discussion with Andrea Kopel, public relations representative

    Jan. 21, 1997

    The members of the Vlach Quartet Prague are Jana Vlachova (violin), Karel Stadtherr (violin), Petr Verner (viola), Mikael Ericsson (cello).

  • Presenting a performance by Chicago The Oriana Singers

    Dec. 1, 1986

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by The Oriana Singers

  • Presenting a musical performance of the Pilgrim Chamber Players

    Nov. 7, 1997

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance of the Pilgrim Chamber Players

  • Windy City Gay Chorus

    Presenting a musical performance by the Windy City Gay Chorus

    May. 22, 1989

    Musical performance of the Windy City Gay Chorus

  • Presenting a musical performance by composer and author Ned Rorem

    Apr. 27, 1989

    Musical performance by Ned Rorem

  • Presenting a live musical program with vocalist Robert White

    Mar. 10, 1989

    Musical performance by Robert White

  • Presenting 18th and 19th century American parlor music with members of the Oriana Singers and Director Bill Chin

    Oct. 31, 1989

    Terkel comments and presents a performance of 18th and 19th century American parlor music

  • 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.

  • Pianist Andre Watts talk about his profession

    Jan. 22, 1986

    Andre Watts's mother believed learning to play music was as important as learning the alphabet and mathematics in school. Watts first studied the fiddle for six months before he went onto the piano. Watts believed playing the piano was a transitory art and that his interpretation of a composer's music was very important to convey to his audiences.

  • Phoebe Legere in conversation with Studs Terkel

  • Peter Sellars

    Peter Sellars talks about his production of Wagner's Tannhauser at Chicago's Lyric Opera

    Oct. 14, 1988
  • Peter Schickele performs and lectures on the music of composer P.D.Q. Bach

    Dec. 1, 1988

    Peter Schickele, the man behind the pseudonymous musical persona P.D.Q. Bach, gives a lecture on the oft-forgotten composer and sibling of Johann Sebastian Bach, playing and discussing a number of works by the fictitious composer.

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