While their works and forte is classical music, Roger Detmer and Virgil Thomson talk about tape and electronic music. Detmer points out that in some eastern European countries, tape is considered pasee, and yet it's used often to recreate a sound to be used with their orchestras. Both men talk about electronic music and how it's sometimes used to make hand-made music sound artificial.

Sarah Caldwell expresses how fortunate she's been in her career as a conductor. This recording also contains an excerpt with opera bass-baritone Donald Gramm.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

Licia Albanese discusses her performance preparations, advice to young new opera singers, the conductor techniques from Fausto Cleva, and the late Arturo Toscanini.

The music professor and well-traveled concertmaster of several orchestras joins Studs to discuss Bach, William Jennings Bryan, and the Chautauqua education and social movement.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

Lotte Lehmann discusses her retirement from opera and how she knew when to stop singing concerts.

Composer and Pulitzer prize winner for music Roger Sessions discusses his music and its reception by the Russian people. Sessions is known for his admiration for music genres such as modern music and its influence in his compositions.