Discussing spirituals and other songs and interviewing folk singers Jim Post and Win Stracke (2 parts).

Discussing spirituals and other songs and interviewing folk singers Jim Post and Win Stracke (2 parts).

Discussing the origins of three schools of contemporary American music, their influence upon each other, and the new directions composers are taking with their music with composer and trombonist Bill Russo.

Birgit Nilsson talks about her career and her roles with musical interludes.

Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson sits down with Studs Terkel to discuss historical developments in jazz piano, his own personal development as a pianist, and his experience directing a youth jazz piano school. Includes Peterson playing short excerpts from "Chicago (that toddlin' town)," "Soon," Chopin's Nocturne in E flat Major to demonstrate musical concepts.