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  • Interviewing Virgil Partch

    Jul. 5, 1963
  • Interviewing violist Irving Ilmer

    Nov. 13, 1987
  • Rachel Barton

    Interviewing violinist Rachel Barton, cellist Wendy Warner, and Suzuki-Orff instructor Peggy Wise in preparation for a benefit concert at the James R. Thompson Center on 3/22/1997

    Mar. 18, 1997

    Studs Terkel interviews Rachel Barton, Wendy Warner and Peggy Wise during the preparation for a benefit concert at the James R. Thompson Center. The benefit concert will be held on March 22, 1997.

  • Interviewing violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg

    Dec. 5, 1990

    Virtuoso violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg discusses her training, performance style and reactions to it, attracting a younger classical audience, and comments on several of her recordings.

  • Interviewing violinist Elizabeth Matesky

    Dec. 21, 1994
  • Interviewing Vincent Price

    1963
  • Interviewing Vincent Canby

    Mar. 28, 1975

    Long-time film critic Vincent Canby talks about his first novel, Living Quarters, which explores the impermanence of life.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Interviewing Vijay Dubey Indian film-maker and Habib Tanvir Indian poet and playwright

    Mar. 1963
  • Interviewing Vagn Steen

    May. 19, 1971

    The Danish poet and translator joins Studs to discuss his approach to poetry, before a lecture tour stop at the University of Chicago.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Interviewing United Airlines' flight attendants Patina Sharp and Dianna Rushing

    Sep. 14, 1993

    two United Airlines flight attendants

  • Interviewing Ulick O'Connor

    May. 17, 1971

    Interviewing Irish author Ulick O'Connor and discussing Brendan, his biography of poet and playwright Brendan Behan.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Interviewing Tuskegee Airmen Ralph Orduna, Sammy Rayner, Col. Bill Thompson, and Judge John W. Rogers

    Feb. 5, 1985
  • Interviewing Trazana Beverley, Tawnya Pettiford, Brenda J. Davis, and Gloria Calomee (cast members - for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)

    Jan. 2, 1978

    The cast of Ntozake Shange's choreopoem discuss the origins of the production and how it combines dance, poetry, and song. Program includes some dramatic readings.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Interviewing Tom Paxton: lament for Robert Kennedy

    1964
  • Interviewing Tom Paxton, Anne Hills and Bob Gibson

    Feb. 8, 1985
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