And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey
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The Pulitzer Prize winner's "latest indispensable oral history" (New York Times) of the twentieth century's most celebrated musicians.Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Studs Terkel hosted a legendary daily radio show in Chicago, presenting listeners with his inimitable take on an eclectic range of music, from classical, opera, and jazz to gospel, blues, folk, and rock. And They All Sang is nothing less than "a tribute to music's universality and power" (Philadelphia Inquirer), featuring more than forty of Terkel's unforgettable conversations with some of the greatest musicians of the past century—including Louis Armstrong, Leonard Bernstein, Big Bill Broonzy, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Mahalia Jackson, Janis Joplin, Rosa Raisa, Pete Seeger, and many others. The New York Times - Dave Itzkoff Miss this volume, and you will miss Louis Armstrong's stories of halting a civil war in Africa, Leonard Bernstein's (favorable!) comparison of the Beatles to "Porgy and Bess," and a charming little anecdote about how Enrico Caruso once ended up in jail ("I just pinched her fanny a little").
Prelude : an American original1Vox humanaTito Gobbi : good and evil13Geraint Evans : the outsider19LiebestodJon Vickers24Birgit Nilsson30SalzburgJosef Krips35Irmgard Seefried40Elisabeth Schwarzkopf44DivaRosa Raisa48Edith Mason53American-bornMarian Anderson60Richard Tucker65Catherine Malfitano69The instrumentAndres Segovia75Ravi Shankar81Alfred Brendel88Garrick Ohlsson96Nicolas Slonimsky105ComposersVirgil Thompson112Aaron Copland117Leonard Bernstein124Impresario (1)Sol Hurok132JazzLil Armstrong139Louis Armstrong145Earl Hines148Dizzy Gillespie152Betty Carter157Henry Threadgill161Keith Jarrett164Impresario (2)John Hammond, Sr.168Spirituals, blues, folk, rockThomas A. Dorsey177Mahalia Jackson184Big Bill Broonzy189Emanuel Dunn197Bob Dylan203Woody Guthrie211Pete Seeger213Jean Ritchie223Janis Joplin235Impresario (3)Alan Lomax241Variations on the themeLarry Adler251Richard Dyer-Bennett259Julian Lee Rayford263Postlude : a graceful goodbye275
