WQXR 50th Anniversary Show [Album # 22]

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

In this edition of the 50th anniversary of WQXR, Robert Sherman interviews WQXR host George Jellinek who discusses his tenure at the station where he began the well-known program, The Vocal Scene. Sherman plays an excerpt from Music in Review as well as an interview with De los Angeles. At the end of the program, Sherman replays excerpts from a Jellinek program "FDR remembered".


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