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Wayne Wilcox on Pakistan

Thursday, November 21, 1968

Asia Society Presents, Episode #1

Ernest A. Gross on Tibet

Monday, November 18, 1968

Asia Society Presents, Episode #5: 8:30-8:53, WNYC-AM: The Asian Society Presents. Ernest A. Gross, former United States deputy representative to the United Nations, and legal advi...

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Interpretations of Bach's B Minor Mass

Sunday, May 05, 1968

David continues with an earlier discussion of what a critics looks for when judging a musical performance. He begins by playing excerpts from three difference versions of Gloria from Bach's B minor Mass. We won't, however, spoil things by telling you who is conducting and performing till after you've heard ...

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John T. Bowers on Chinese Medicine

Friday, December 22, 1967

Asia Society Presents, Episode #11: 10:30-10:55. WNYC-FM: The Asia Society. "The Survival of Traditional Chinese Medicine," John T. Bowers of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.

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Claire Holt on Indonesia

Wednesday, November 29, 1967

Asia Society Presents, Episode #2: 9:30-9:55, WNYC-AM: The Asia Society. Mrs. Claire Holt, "Life and Art in Indonesia."

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Electronic Music - Part 3 of 3 - Live and Recorded

Sunday, July 30, 1967

By Ted Houghtaling

In the third and final part to his overview of electronic music, Canby uses The Beatles and the 'happenings' of the 1960s to illustrate the blurring of boundaries between popular music and avant-garde experimentation in electronic sound.

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Electronic Music - Part 2 of 3 - Electronic Abstraction

Sunday, July 23, 1967

By Ted Houghtaling

In this second episode of a three-part series on the history of electronic music up to the 1960s, Ed Canby discusses the shift from naturally derived sounds to the pure electronic abstraction made possible by electronic tone generators and musical synthesizers.

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Electronic Music - Part 1 of 3 - Musique Concrète

Sunday, July 16, 1967

By Ted Houghtaling

In this first episode of a three-part series, host Ed Canby discusses the history of electronic tape music from its origins in the 1940s to its subsequent influence on the vocabulary of experimental music and sonic expression in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Background Music and Couperin

Sunday, March 12, 1967

Canby discusses background and foreground music, as well as the different approaches or impulses to listening to such music.

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"Background music in various sorts has been important in Western music history--and in fact, for much of our history it has honestly been more ...

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NYU Mini Lecture: Walter James Miller Gives Lecture on Three Poems

Wednesday, January 04, 1967

Host Walter James Miller discusses and explores the poems "Desire" by Sir Philip Sidney, "The Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost.

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Reel 18: Tony Towle

Sunday, January 01, 1967

Michael Silverton interviews Tony Towle for Poetry of the Avant-Garde on WNYC.

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Reel 19: Frank O'Hara Memorial

Monday, August 01, 1966

Michael Silverton presents a Frank O'Hara Memorial for Poetry of the Avant-Garde on WNYC.

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Orpheus

Sunday, March 06, 1966

David Randolph plays excerpts from two older operas on the subject of Orpheus, one modern orchestral work written about Orpheus and a parody on the story of Orpheus. He begins material from L'Orfeo written by Claudio Monteverdi in 1607. David goes on to the fifth and final act of Monteverdi's ...

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