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Arts and Older Folks
CBM 731
Individuals over sixty remember their past and discuss their
present activity in the arts. Includes interviews with Rudy Vallee,
Avon Long, and Artur Rubinstein.
Careers in Music
CBM 582
Distinguished professionals discuss the pros and cons of
their field of music. Some of the areas discussed are the military, jazz
performance, publishing, and music journalism.
Chant
CBM 1193
Suggests the therapeutic uses of both Eastern and Western
chant. Chant expert Alfred Tomatis gives the history and techniques of
chant.
Duke Ellington High School for the Arts
CBM 724
A visit to one of the fifty high schools in America that not
only stresses traditional studies but gives individual and class
instruction in music, dance, theater, and the visual arts. The listener will sit in
on classes and hear aspiring young artists discuss their experiences and
hopes for the future.
Good Ol' Boys
CBM 774
A colorful group of writers and performers in the country and
western music world reflect on the lifestyle and ethic of country and
backwoods jazz.
Legend of Our Times
CBM 894
Cameos of a variety of artists including Rudy Vallee singing
"The Whiffenpoof Song," and Shirley Temple, Nora Beys, and Maurice
Chevalier singing a medley of well-known favorites.
The Men Who Made the Hits
CBM 533-534
Survey of songwriters and publishers active in the early
twentieth century.
Mozart's Sisters
CBM 730
A historical overview of women composers and musicians from
the eleventh century to the contemporary American composer Vivian
Fine. Interviewed are women musicologists who suggest that "music
history must be rewritten to include women."
Music and the Women's Movement
CBM 723
At the sixth National Women's Music Festival in Urbana,
Illinois, women discuss their music and the women's movement. Features songs
by Holly Near.
Music Therapy
CBM 720
Dr. Clive Robbins demonstrates how music has opened
communications with autistic, blind, and retarded children.
Outline for the Next Wave
CBM 777
Conversations with four artists on art, culture, and
perception. Explores performance art.
Ragtime Women
CBM 781
Popular music historian and composer Max Morath discusses the
large number of white middle- and upper-class women who wrote and
played ragtime at the turn of the twentieth century. Although they
outnumbered men ten to one in this field, they are largely forgotten
today.
The Sound of Music and Voice
CBM 732
This program contains several reports on the use of voice and
music. Subjects include an interview with a Hollywood doctor about
the use and abuse of the voice, a physicist who is trying to reproduce
the original sound of musical instruments using a computer, and a music
therapist in a Brooklyn hospital.
Todd Duncan and Paul Calloway
CBM 83
Todd Duncan, the original Porgy in Porgy and Bess, and Paul
Calloway, the Washington Cathedral's director of music, discuss their
difficulties in achieving success.
The Working Musician
CBM 197
Discusses the joys and difficulties of a modern musical
career.
Yehudi Menuhin, Man and Musician
CBM 69
The renowned violinist whose musical career began before the
age of three discusses his experiences as a child prodigy and as a
mature musician.
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Posted on 2006-05-30