And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey
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...
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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
\ Dave ItzkoffMiss 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").\ — The New York Times\ \ \ \ \ Publishers WeeklyIn this enjoyable, informative collection of 40 interviews, Pulitzer-winning oral historian Terkel recalls his venerable radio program, The Wax Museum, which premiered shortly after the end of WWII in 1945, profiling composers, entertainers and impresarios of nearly every type of music. In a stirring introduction, Terkel explains his love affair with music, which began when he was a boy and culminated with this daily radio show, where Terkel used a diverse playlist to spark dynamic chats with opera divas Edith Mason and Rosa Raisa, rockers Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, world musicians Ravi Shankar and Andres Segovia, jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong, folk singers Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and others. Insightful and daring, Terkel always asks the right questions, whether culturally or musically. Most scintillating are the occasions when Terkel provokes his subjects to weigh in on controversial topics (as when composer Leonard Bernstein comments, "What would American music or culture be like if there were no black people here?"). Although perhaps not as strong as some of Terkel's weightier works (e.g., The Good War: An Oral History of World War II), this volume is nevertheless effective oral history, demonstrating an expert journalist's ability to let his subjects speak. (Sept. 1) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.\ \
