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December 1975, Folio
Washington Report
KATHRYN TIDYMAN: How: many
people work in the Washington Bureau?
ROBERT KRULWICH: There are four
regular people here now: Paz, me, Ted
Clark, and Katherine Ferguson. Then
there are the trainees in our training
program. We have Christine Bond,
Margaret Gray, David DeHart. That’s
three more, so there are seven. And then
we have Paul Chaplain, who reports and
also does our clips. That’s eight, really.
KT: And you give each of them assign-
ments to cover during the day? Is that
how you succeed in covering such an
enormous beat?
PAZ COHEN: I think the question is
“Do we succeed?”
RK: Well, we have orders from each of
the stations. What Texas wants is not
necessarily what New York wants, and
so on. It’s a process of choosing a
common denominator set of stories .
PC: Something nobody has asked for.
RK: .
—on virtually no money, compared,
certainly, to any other bureau in
"Washington. We have to get people to
it events with Machines that
pay for repairing the machines. We
re able to do it because we teach people,
nd they take that as compensation. The
graduates of the training program are
all. Like last night, David
a us in the naif
best by holding down the volume of
_ reports. Like today, for example, two
adcast. I'll ask someone to do a
, and that report will be recorded.
" Twill listen to it, critique the author, and
say, like, you need to do this with your
voice. Or, this writing was this or that.
That person won't go on the air for a
number of months yet. Trainees only go
on the air when they’reready, unless... .
PC: Unless I’m the one training them.
RK: Yes, you're a little more trusting of
them.
PC: About how shines get done...I
think alot of it is knowing that if I don’t
cover something, it’s not going to be
covered; and feeling that there is a need
for people to know what’s going on, and
that people doing things in Washington
know that they’re being covered. I,
anyway, just keep working when I don’t
feel like working, because someone has
to.
RK: Our hours are ridiculous.
KT: How would you describe a typical
work day?
RK: There’s no such thing, is there?
KT: How do you give out assignments?
PC: One of two ways. Sometimes the
day before, we know what we're going to
do the next day. We know what hearing
is coming up. If it starts early, I’ll take a
’ machine home with me—assuming there
are enough machines working that I can
take one with me—and then go straight
from home to-the Hill. Then, I stay for
the hearing, check the galleries for radio
_ and TV people on both the House and
- Senate sides to see if any new stories
_ have been released. I get back here late
afternoon. I start writing. The phone
will begin to ring incessantly, will not
Fis ‘stop ringing until we’ve missed our
deadline. I'll consider cancelling the
se News and just answering the telephone.
Then we have to feed the stations several
. eispiess to meet the various deadlines. New
. and following our own instincts ©
_ Kathryn Tidyman (whose photos often appear in the Folio)
visited Pacifica’s Washington Bureau last month. The
following interview and photographs provide an insight into
the hows and whys behind our Leports from the Capitol.
Kathryn Tidyman
York is the dry run for our feeds. Then
we hear them go, “Oh, that’s too
long... you talk too fast... By the
time the feeds get to Los Angeles...
KT: How much contact do you have with
the establishment press corps here? How
do they regard Pacifica?
RK: Paz gets along fabulously with
them. I think I’m not noticed by the
establishment press corps.
PC: Roger Mudd doesn’t talk to me.
RK: He notices you though, and he
keeps asking me where I’m from. I
suppose your real question is, do they
say, ‘‘Oh, here’s a bunch of those hippy
commies coming in here.’’ No, that’s not
the case. That’s been a big surprise to
me. There’s a very fierce sense of egali-
tarianism, at least officially, in the press
corps. You couldn’t have it any other
way, or subtle lines would be drawn
which would screw up everything.
PC: Yes, but it’s been a long struggle to
become respectable. I had to go through
a lot, learn to do things—like dress—
differently. Now I’ve been around for
three years, I can do as I like.
RK: My experience is that they just
accept you, even though they don’t hear
us, because Pacifica doesn’t have a
Washington station yet. They know our
reputation and either love us, like. our
NBC friend (I guess maybe we shouldn’t
embarrass him), or they are suspicious of
us—we aren’t doing real journalism,
we're advocates or something. When
they see us working or investigating,
they help and are very nice. I don’t think
there is any tension. We have White
House press credentials; whatever any-
one can go to, we can go to. We just
don’t get invited to dinner in George-.
town.
KT: Georgetown dinners—is that what’s
known as being part of “the Club?”
PC: The Club. It’s what I.F. Stone once
said about the danger of getting to know
high government officials, or even’ low
government officials. You begin to feel
like you're one of them, and they really
know what’s best. If they have a secret,
maybe it’s best that it be kept just
between the two of you.
RK: I would say there’s less of that kind
of crony-ism in Washington than I
would have ever imagined. But there is a
lot of it on the columnist level— Evans,
Novak, Tom Braden; the liberal colurn-
nists as well—Gary Wills.. They’ve
turned their columns into places where
people may plant items. They don’t go
out and gather their own information
anymore. The newer ‘columnists—
George Will at the Washington Post—
tend to follow their own bent and
curiosity. But the ones who have been
around Washington for a while—Joe
Kraft, for example—to read them, one
imagines that they count on the dinner
parties they attend and the telephone
calls they receive for the substance of
their reports. They are passive receivers,
and there is certainly a club atmosphere
about that. When you read Evans and
Novak, you are reading what a certain
segment of the political stratum wants
you to know, or wants to say.
But I don’t think that radio reporters
are muzzling themselves to protect
friends. Maybe they are—maybe I just
don’t know them well enough.
KT: How interested do you think the
government is in communicating with
the public? Do you find that one branch
is more cooperative than another?
PC: Elected officials want to be on the
air very often, unless they think they're
doing a terrible job. The more exposure
they have, the better known they'll be;
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a DECEMBER 1975
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MANAGER’S REPORT
State of the Station
The Month Past
WBAI remains poised on the brink
(perhaps it always has been, perhaps it
$42,735., including $1,095, (net) from
the Halloween Benefit—not bad con-
sidering that the month was sandwiched
between a spectacular September and
the Minithon months of November and
December. Even so, we lost an estimated
$12,000. in the first month of our new
fiscal year.
Subscribership stands at 14,850 as of
October 25, a net increase of 755.over the
previous period. October was the second
month in which the net subscribership
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we must have 19,000 subscribers by the
end of the calendar year in order to keep
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Renewals are the foundation on which
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The Fiscal Year Past
WBAI’s operating loss for the fiscal
year that ended September 30 was only
$24,667., the lowest in four years. (Last
fiscal year’s loss was $43,000.). The
relatively low loss in the face of rising
fixed costs (for energy, rent, etc.) was
made possible by the sacrifices of the
WBALI staff in the form of low and late
wages. Inflationary pressures on each of ~
us are unbearable and getting worse.
A detailed breakdown of unaudited
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Note that only 43.1% of the operatin
expense goes to people. (In better years
the figure was well over 55%.) 35% o
the budget goes to fixed overhead,
leaving only about 22% for the variable 53
non-people costs of program production
and promotion. _s
These skewed percentages are only
another way of saying that we pay too —
little to our people, and too much to —
landlords, and energylords. Far too little
is left for programs and promotion. The as
only way out of this bind is either more —
income, or fewer people (which might
lead. to less income as a result of fewer
programs). Only you can help. Send us
your subscription, donation, or renewal
via the coupon on page 15. i.
What is so frustrating about all this is-
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December is a most important month ©
for WBAI. The second half of the ©
Minithon and the Crafts Fair take place
this month. It is also the last month this _
year in which you can obtain a 1975 tax
deduction for your contribution to
WBAI. . a.
We depend on the Minithon for cash too
pay the short-term loans, Pacifica —
debentures, and mortgage payments —
that come due this month ($5,000 short- _
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December 1975, Folio
Seen DECEMBER Ist
ake 0 PM MAJOR
; CONTEMPORARY
WRITERS #4
Jerzy Kosinski, Being
: There
erry Kosinski reads passages from
‘is satirical novel, Being There. In the
onversation with Charles Ruas which
_ follows the reading, Kosinski explores
impact of television on society, and
‘concept of cultural passivity and its
eral consequences. Executive
roducer, Charles Ruas; Co-produ-
, Lin Harris-Rosechild and Bill
u .
m in our series, Going
jlitics of Madness, at-
to talk about alternatives to
ntal illness and incarceration, both
_ in terms of prevention and treatment.
Guests include Claude Steiner, writer
and activist in. the radical therapy
_ movement and others involved in
_humanizing and politicizing move-
_ ments in the mental health industry.
_ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4th
; 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2ist
- 9:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31st
7:30 PM
_W.P.A. RADIO PROJECT
During the 1930’s thousands of plays
were written under the Federal Thea-
tre Project of the Works Progress
Administration. Recently, more than
10,000 of these scripts have been dis-
f covered i in an airplane hangar belong-
4 _ Ing to the government. Throughout
. this month, and in the months to come,
_ The Labor Theatre, a group of per-
_ formers involved in producing mate-
rials of special interest to the labor
community, will be producing some of
these original radio scripts.
THURSDAYS, DECEMBER 4th,
Ith, 18th, 25th
8:30PM POLITICAL ECONOMY: A
TEN-WEEK COURSE
A course on political economics con-
ducted by economists David Gordan
and William Tabb. Supplementary
materials can be obtained by writing
to the station. Audience participation
by telephone is encouraged. Produced
by Bonnie Bellow.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5th
_ 9:00 PM WBAI FREE MUSIC
STORE
Sergiu Luca and the Music
Fraternity
Sergiu Luca, whose recent concerts
and recordings have made use of au-
thentic baroque instruments, will be
performing music by Vivaldi and
Mozart. Recorded at the WBAI Free
Music Store on Thursday, December
4th. See the Free Music Store Sched-
ule for details of other broadcasts.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7th ;
2:00 PM DER VASS DERTAILT _
GESCHICTES
Isaac Bashevis Singer came to the
U.S. from Poland in 1935 and west to
work for the Jewish Daily Forward.
ss He’s been there ever since and has
probably done more than any other au-.
thor to familiarize people all over the
world with the flavor of European-
Jewish life before World War II as well
as the ideas and contributions of the
Yiddish culture and language through
his stories set in Warsaw, New York
City, Tel Aviv, the Catskills, Buenos
Aires and the Bronx.
Jan Albert talks with Singer about
his latest book, Passions and a really
endearing new play, currently on
Broadway, Yentl the Yeshiva Boy,
characteristically steeped with the
Singer tradition, but at the same time
a most appropriate tale for National
Womens Year!
Produced and Coordinated by Ira
Weitzman -
We are forging ahead into December
with another month of Free Music Store
concerts as usual, on Thursday and
Saturday evenings beginning at 9:00
PM. We invite a live studio audience
(that means you) to all concerts. The
Free Music Store takes place in Studio
C, at the WBAI church, 359 East 62nd
Street, just West of lst Avenue. Admis-
sion, of course, is free, but just like
MONDAYS, DECEMBER 8th, 15th,
22nd, 29th
12:00 AM SWAN SONG
This month Swan Song features a
reading of Dickens’ A Tale of Two
Cities, with readers from among
WBAI staff and listeners, and guest
celebrities. Produced by Mickey
Waldman.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8th
10:00 PM MAJOR
CONTEMPORARY
WRITERS #4
Jerzy Kosinski,
The Devil Tree
Jerzy Kosinski reads selected pas-
sages from the second of his novels on
American life, The Devil Tree. In the
ensuing conversation with Charles
Ruas, the relationship of power to
freedom is examined in terms of the
novel’s protagonist, Jonathon Whalen,
the man who has everything.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9th
7:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10th
7:30 PM
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12th
12:00 PM
LETTERS FROM PORTUGAL
Events in Portugal are changing
quickly. The range of political parties
and shifting alignments are complex.
everyone else, it’s a big struggle for our
survival, so we encourage contributions
of whatever you can afford. If you can’t
make it in person, be sure to listen to the
Saturday concerts which are broadcast
live on WBAI 99.5 FM.
You may have seen our terrific WBAI
Free Music Store posters around town
by now. The artist is David Byrd (whose
other recent works have included the
posters for the shows Follies and
Godspell, the film Day of the Locust,
and the Art Deco Expo at Radio City). If
you want one of these posters (to spread
the word about the Free Music Store to
the world at large, or to adorn your
living quarters) hold on, they'll . be
available soon.
In the meantime, most of the Decem-
ber concerts have been set (for details on
the others stay tuned):
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4th:
Sergiu Luca and the Music Fraternity
Sergiu Luca, whose recent concerts and
recordings have made use of authentic
baroque instruments, will be performing
music by Vivaldi and Mozart. Luca and
friends will perform and demonstrate
authentic instruments from the periods
of those composers.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6th: .
Peter Schickele Returns
Many fear civil war. Meanwhile the
Left in other capitalist countries looks
to Portugal with anxiety because
Portugal is the first advanced
capitalist society to give birth to a re-
volutionary process. What will they
create? How will they do it?
Since Marx elaborated his theories
of revolutionary transformation from
capitalism to socialism, the actual re-
volutions which have been rooted in
Marxist theory have taken place in ag-
rarian and peasant societies... not
highly industrialized capitalist
economies.
Of course, the Right is watching
Portugal also. And participating.
Economic sabotage, political pres-
sures, CIA involvement, the Catholic
church are all pitted against a socialist
revolution. Our special programs on
Portugal this month will try to focus
both on questions of revolutionary
theory as they are being argued and
fought for in Portugal, as well_as look-
ing at the human forces at work. How
has life changed? What was it like be-
fore? What happens in the process of
change? What are the visions for anew
life? How. are they being worked out?
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9th
10:00 PM JACK SPICER
Second of two programs on the late
Continued on page 18
Peter (P.D.Q. Bach) Schickele returns to
the Free Music Store, with performances
of his chamber music and songs. A
definite must see. Broadcast Live.
SPECIAL
. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10th &
THURSDAY, DECEMBER ILith:
Concerts of contemporary music from
two of the most highly regarded series
concentrating on New Music:
Wednesday, December 10th: The Cre-
ative Associates from the Center for the
Creative and Performing Arts of Buffalo.
This will be the first in the Evenings of
New Music series to be held at the Free
Music Store. Stay tuned for details.
Thursday, December 11th: The Com-
poser’s Forum.
The third in this series (which is the
oldest series of American contemporary
music) will feature the works of two
composers, followed by a discussion
about the music, led by a distinguished
member of the music community. The
composers featured in this Forum are C.
Curtis Smith and Hubert S. Howe.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13th:
The Concord String Quartet
The quartet returns to WBAI with an all
Bartok program! Mark Sokol and
Andrew Jennings, violins; John Ko-
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“olio, December 1975
This month WBAI wi!!
ne broadcasting a series of
radio plays written in the 1930’s under the Works
Progress Administration Federal Theatre Project.
(Check Highlights for dates and times.) To get
background on the W.P.A. and current day arts
subsidies, Courtney Callender spoke with
director, actor and teacher John Houseman. The
interview will be broadcast in its entirety over
Getting Around in January 1976.
Interview with
John Houseman
COURTNEY CALLENDER: Just about
everybody who’s under forty in the arts
has heard of the WPA, the Works
Progress Administration, and yet they
probably only have the dimmest idea of
what it was, and what it did, and how it
worked. Can you describe it?
JOHN HOUSEMAN: Well, there’s a
great deal of misapprehension, and
there’s a great error when people refer to
the WPA Federal Arts Projects as the
beginning of subsidy in this country, of
the arts. Because in fact, while it ended
up working that way, it was never
intended that way. It was a purely relief
operation.
CC: For people outside of the arts as well
as in the arts?
JH: It was simply a relief operation
having nothing to do with what the
people did. Then, Harry Hopkins had a
wonderful idea when he created the
WPA, that it was healthier and more
constructive to let people receive their
relief money, but at the same time put
them to work in those occupations which
were theirs before they became unem-
ployed.
CC: So it was basically a form of
unemployment.
JH: It was entirely a form of unemploy-
ment relief—or rather straight relief.
Then among the other works projects he
created—he created the arts projects.
And I was concerned specifically with
the theater,
worked. And he had a wonderful second
notion because not only would he put
people to work, but in order to insure
that the work was creative and valuable,
he permitted ten percent of the personnel
of the WPA Arts Projects to be non-
relief personnel. They received exactly
the same wages as the relief people but
they did not have to qualify that they
were on relief and indigent in order to do
it and—
CC: And this was to insure that the
people who were involved were not out of
work simply because they were inept, I
suppose.
JH: That’s right, it also meant that
some of the best of the people who were
not necessarily on relief were able to
come in and give their exper.ise to help
raise the artistic, the creative tone of the
projects.
CC: Who defined the projects?
JH: Well, in the case of the arts he very ~
wisely chose about five outstanding
people for the visual arts, for the writer’s
project, for music, and for the theater.
And there he made a very courageous
because that’s where I |
decision. He didn’t go to any of the
established theatrical people, he went to
a lady whom he incidentally had gone to
school with many years before at
Grinnell, but who was a university
teacher who, with an outstanding record
for doing good experimental theater up
at Vassar, and she had written books
about theater. She was a very knowl-
edgeable lady, but completely outside
the normal, centralized professional
theater. And that proved to be a
wonderful choice.
CC: What was her name?
JH: Ellie Flannigan.
CC: Was there any kind of conscious
manipulation or in a sense censorship—
conscious or unconscious—on the part of
the government in choosing the projects
and the people?
JH: On the part of the people who ran
the WPA, by and large, no. However,
since the WPA was getting a great deal
of money from the government, and
since there was a certain amount of
opposition to Roosevelt and the New
Deal, obviously the Federal Arts Proj-
ects came under constant attack. If they
did something that was totally conven-
tional, they were accused of being boring
and useless and if they did something in
the least bit adventurous, there were
always some people who would rush in
and say that they were Communists or
crazy or something like that.
CC: Was that the Heritage Theatre that
you were involved with?
JH: No, this was the Lafayette Theatre,
up in Harlem, it was cdlled the Negro
Theatre Project. It was the largest
theatre project in New York City. It was
the first to open, and it was one of the
most successful ones that they had. So,
little by little, one discovered who on the
project had theatrical experience, know-
how and talent and who just was there
on relief and so the project got organized
accordingly.
CC: A lot of people who have to depend
on public monies now, complain about
being on a kind of short leash. I mean
they get amonth’s worth of money or six
month’s worth of money or they get six
month’s worth later than they were
promised and a little bit less than they
were promised. Did that kind of thing go
on with you or was it administered more
freely?
JH: Oh, I’m sure there were individual
complaints of people who felt they were
not being treated fairly, but by and large
it was fairly simple. Everybody got their
$22.50 or whatever it was—I forget what
the minimum was—and each week they
got it. It was that simple.
CC: How about the money for produc-
tion? The other kinds of money
necessary?
JH: That was very carefully adminis-
tered. Actually the money for production
was fairly lavish. On the Federal Theatre
we did some very distinguished produc- .
tions, which if they had been done
commercially could not probably af-
forded to give the kind of production.
The rather famous Negro MacBeth had a
great deal of scenery and perfectly
beautiful costumes.
CC: You mention that the WPA was not
this country’s first effort in public
subsidy of the arts.
JH: No. I said it was not the first, there
were no others. It was not an artistic
subsidy. It was a relief project. The
entrance of the government into subsidy
did not occur until thirty—thirty-five
years later.
CC: I’m curious about the audience for
the theatre or for painting or for
anything in those days, but particularly.
for the theatre, since I’m talking to you.
When people were out of work and poor
and desperate, did they participate any
more, did they enjoy the arts more, did
they care about it more?
JH: Well, in the first place, they got in
for very little money. They could get in
for a quarter. I think the most expensive
seat was fifty cents. So a whole new
audience began to come into the theatre
—a very exciting, new audience which
before had really not really considered a
kind of carriage-trade thing.
CC: But fifty cents was a meal in those
days.
JH: It-was a meal, oh, indeed it was. In
fact you could eat for twenty-five cents.
It wasn’t like fifty cents today, but still ~
it was a very reasonable price for an
admission ticket.
CC: And people did partake of it more?
JH: Oh, a great many people. I don’t
know what the figures are. Unless I’m
mistaken, I think the figure is that
fifteen million people saw the shows of
the Federal WPA Theatre during its four
years of existence.
CC: What were their tastes like? That’s a
funny kind of way of putting it, but did
they have a sense of selectivity?
JH: I can only. answer you that prag-
matically. Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, which
was always considered a library play and
had never really been performed in the
commercial theatre, I think ever, in this
country played for about four and a half
‘tion end, or whether on the artistic end,
months in the Maxine Elliot theatre in _
Austin Rose’s production.
CC: And this with a lot of other theatre
competing with it? .
JH: Oh, sure. There was a great deal of a
theatre even through the eae Ga. ‘
so-called commercial tastes. If
at the programs of the Federal Theatre
of the WPA in New York—and I’m only
talking about New York, because
where I was, but I think it wa
true all over the country—you'll find
that the standard of productions and the ::
choice of material was very high. _
CC: Some people claim that they can tell
about the state of the country and the . ©
economy by looking at hemlines on ;
dresses and that kind of thing, and I’m
sure that’s very debatable. But when —
you go to the theatre, comparing now —
and forty years ago, can you get some — ¥
message about the state of the country? ;
JH: Well, the theatre at the moment is
not doing very well in New York City, 2.
for entirely economic reasons. But —
throughout the rest of the country the
theatre is very healthy indeed. There’s a —
great deal of theatre all over the country,
spread very widely arid the quality of it
is pretty good.. }
CC: But I’m kind of curious abane i
what’s actually on the stage, the
content, the message, the tone, the
texture. Does that say something about —
this country right now as opposed to
what was done forty years ago?
JH: Well, as a result of the witch hunts ©
of the McCarthy Era, for about twenty- _
five years the theatre simply refused to —
face any contemporary problems that —
were in the least bit controversial. Now, —
that changed with the Vietnam protests
—a good deal of fairly strong stuff got —
into the theatre. However, today the~
theatre is not nearly as much involved —
with contemporary life as I would like to”
see it. s
CC: As it was say ten years ago, five
years ago?
JH: Not ten years ago, as it was, let’s —
say, in the thirties when the theatre had ;
a great deal of relation to life. Bae
CC: Most careers in the arts, whether
they’re on the administrative or produc-
have been, up until now, for the elite,
meaning economically independent, or
for gypsies of one kind or ‘another, —
however you want to define those. And
now there’s a.certain kind of whit
collarism involved in the arts: arts
iPoubinues on page 16 4
Page 5
December 1975, Folio
By Kay Swift
When I was four years old, opera
was the love -of my life. This
condition prevailed until I was about
_ eleven, when baseball took over. My
, _ father was a music critic for the New
_ York Mail and Express, so on
_ matinee days he often took me to the
_ old Metropolitan Opera House,
_- where I saw Wagner operas so many
_ times that I eventually memorized a
few of the shorter parts. Nasty old
_ Fricka, in “Die Walkure,” was one.
‘Then, when I was about eleven
_ and had read the sporting pages, my
father, who was rather a fan himself,
took me to see the New York Giants
ounds. I was instantly hooked.
fter that, pictures, clipped out of
pitcher of the Giants, and a
others, looked down from
_ three walls of my room. They were
action pictures: throwing, catching
or sliding men livened up the decor,
not quite covering, in. some in-
_ stances, the holes made earlier by
nails that had supported the framed
_ pictures of formier years. Rabid on
_ the subject of professionalism even
_ at an early age, these players, my
___ heroes, seemed infinitely more glam-
-orous than any star of college
football. A rare treat, that of
: attending a Harvard-Yale football
_ game with the family of the famed
_ sportswriter, Walter Camp, left me
cold. How intolerant can you be? My
_ mother reminded me, years later,
_ that my only comment after the
wedding of one of my aunts, at which
I was a flower-girl, was “‘Well, the
whole thing looked pretty amateur-
ish to me.”’
My brother, four years younger
than I, did far more for baseball than
I did. He played it—so ably, that
_ when he went to Milton Academy in
_ Massachusetts, a Boston sports-
_ writer described him as being the
best schoolboy first baseman he’d
_ ever seen. This was, of course,
thrilling— but even more exciting to
me was a summer during which Sam
pitched professionally, for Worces-
ter!
My only contribution was two
weeks’ allowance, sent in to a fund
_ raised by some fans of the Giants,
who donated a car to Christy
_~ Mathewson. My father took me to
_ the game at which Matty accepted
_ this treasure. I shall never forget my
joy and pride as the big blond pitcher
drove that car slowly around the
outfield; I felt certain that my fifty
_ cents had added substantially to the
_ purchase of the gift.
J * la
Song-writer Kay Swift is the subject of Fine and Dandy: The
Music of Kay Swift, to be broadcast Sunday,
December 21st at 2 PM.
BASEBALL:
The Love of My Life
When I was a lumpy twelve-year-
old, my grandfather began taking me
daily to the TriState League ball-
games in Wilmington, Delaware.
Nothing he or anyone else could have
done would have given more pleas-
ure. We always sat in the same seats,
right behind third base, and soon
knew some of the players—not really,
but enough to call out loud greetings
to them as they took: the field. Other
fans who sat near us were mostly
men, elderly and alone, and we all
second-guessed the managers, ex-
horting them to take out the
pitchers, or to leave a man in— when
he was being replaced and took that
sad, long walk back to the bench.
Gramp was a handsome man, six feet
two, with silver hair and moustache.
_ I was proud of him, and delighted
when he lent me a beat-up old brown
felt hat that kept slipping down over
my eyes. The sun beat relentlessly on
us, but we loved every moment of the
games.
Later, back in New York, I saw
many struggles between the home
teams (both the Giants and the
Yankees) and visiting teams, at the
Polo Grounds and at Yankee Sta-
dium, respectively. On my birthday,
which falls in the Spring, my choice
of entertainment was, of course,
going to a game. Once, the season
opened on my birthday, which
seemed like a special omen of good
luck. The home team won the game
that day.
When I grew up I became a
Dodger fan. I wrote a letter to my
favorite Dodger, Jackie Robinson,
and whatever I said must have
pleased Jackie, for a doctor who
knew him informed me that the fiery —
second baseman actually carried my ©
letter in his pocket. I admired every-
thing about Robinson: his powerful
competitive spirit, his amazing speed
on the bases and the fact that he was
more intelligent than any other
player I ever saw. I loved to see him
outwit an opposing pitcher, which he
did— with ease—on many occasions.
My last contact with professional
baseball—other than watching
games on television, which I do.
today — was when I wrotea scorching
letter to the owners of the New York
Yankees. Messrs. Topping and Webb
had dropped famed shortstop Phil
Rizzuto from the roster without the
slightest warning, and, tactlessly,
they had chosen to do it just before
an annual game played on “Old
Timers’ Day’’, in which Rizzuto was
playing—not as a retired veteran, of
which the Old Timers team was
composed, but as the regular Yankee
shortstop. Phil’s wife, his children,
and his parents were all attending
the game, and as the news of his
dismissal came—just before the first
inning —all of them took it hard. The
Rizzuto family shed tears, and I, at
home, shed more. I had gone with
my brother to see the Yankees the
day before, and we had been im-
pressed by Rizzuto’s remarkable
fielding of some hot grounders. I
worked up such resentment against
Topping and Webb for letting him go
that my letter—if they read it— must
have burned someone’s fingers.
Of course Rizzuto, as everybody
knows, went on to become a highly
successful broadcaster of the team’s
games. His cry of “Holy cow!,”
whenever a homer was hit, resounded
in the land for a number of years.
Yesterday, my friend Alfred Stern,
a producer of civic and industrial
shows who once wrote, with my
husband, a splendid TV series that
dealt with every facet of the game,
talked with me about baseball. ‘It’s
a game that keeps you honest,” he
said. “You see, there’s no possible
way of faking anything in baseball.
A batter either hits the ball or strikes
out, or he draws a base on balls. A
pitcher either gets the ball over the
plate, or he doesn’t. A fielder either
catches a ball or not. It’s a definite,
clear game, ano nonsense affair.”
I had just watched a World Series
on television, all seven games, and I
had to admit to myself that there
had been a little bit of rhubarb about
one or two of the calls made by the
umpires, but I didn’t mention those
to Alfred. Instead, I hummed to
myself one of the songs Ralph Freed
and I had dreamed up for a TV
series, a series, incidentally, for
which no sponsor ever approached
us. Ralph’s lyric contains two lines
that, to me, sum up the entire
subject:
“Baseball, baseball,
Nothing can ever replace
baseball”
Truer words were never written.
Folio, December 1975
Page a4
MONDAY,
DECEMBER Ist
5:00 COUNTING SHEEP
Can’t sleep? Count Sheep! Live radio
with Jan Albert.
7:00 TAKING IT EASY—BUT
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NEWS
A rebroadcast of last night’s News.
With Marty Goldensohn.
9:30 THROUGH THE OPERA
GLASS
Presented by Martin Sokol. Smetana’s
Dalibor.
11:55 PROGRAM
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1:00 THE FOUNDATION OF
AFRICAN HISTORY
Beginnings of Organized
Societies in Africa
African pre-history has been passed
down through the generations via the
spoken word. Later, numerous
volumes were written by travelers,
explorers, and historians. Yet, its
position and importance to the world is
generally unknown. Participants:
Thelma Harris, James Gross and
Lewis Thompson.
2:00 ADVENTURES IN JAZZ
4:00 IRSAY IN THE AFTERNOON
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6:30. NEWS
A report of the day’s event by Marty
Goldensohn. (December 2nd.)
7:30 GETTING AROUND
Discussions, whispers, and guffaws on
artists and arts. Moderated by
Courtney Callender.
8:30 MISCELLANY
8:45 ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Electronic music placed in a
socio-economic context, emphasizing
isolation of musical environment by
today’s music industry. Musical
selections consist mostly of
compositions that are either
commercially unrecorded or
unavailable in the U.S. Many
composers and musical personalities
from the U.S. and abroad are often
guests on this program. Produced and
presented by Ilhan Mimaroglu.
10:30 MAJOR CONTEMPORARY
WRITERS
Jerzy Kosinski, “Being
There”
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Jerzy Kosinski reads passages from
his satirical novel, Being There. In the
conversation with Charles Ruas which
follows, Kosinski explores the impact
of television on society, and the
concept of cultural passivity and its
general consequences.
Executive Producer, Charles Ruas.
Co-producers, Lin Harris and Bill
Kortum.
11:55 PROGRAM
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12:00 SWAN SONG
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TUESDAY,
DECEMBER 2nd
5:00 MORNING WATCH
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7:00 TAKING IT EASY—BUT
TAKING IT!
With Larry Cox.
9:00 PROGRAM
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qe Produced by Judith
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11:00 GAY.ALTERNATIVES
Set. Leonard Matlevich: The
Development of a Gay
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A rebroadcast of a discussion with Air
Force Sgt. Leonard Matlovitch about
the changes in his ideas and
self-perception that lead him to test
the right of gay people to serve in the
Armed Forces, and the further
changes which have led him to
question the values of our society.
Host and producer is Ronald Gold.
11:55 PROGRAM
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Produced by Deloris Costello.
WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 3rd.
5:00 MORNING WATCH
Live radio with Bill Monaghan.
Robbie Dulman
Our October “ Carlin” Benefit was a huge success.
3:00 GETTING AROUND
A rebroadcast from December Ist.
4:00 JAZZ SAMPLER
A usually free-associative,
more-or-less historically-inclined,
approximate two hours of recorded
jazz. Presented by Bill Farrar.
6:00 PROGRAM
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6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events by Marty
Goldensohn. (December 3rd.)
7:30 IS THERE A RADICAL
THERAPY?
This final program in our series on
“madness” concerns alternatives to
mental illness and incarceration in
terms of prevention and treatment.
Guests include Claude Steiner, writer
and activist in the radical therapy
movement, and others involved in |
humanizing and politicizing
movements within the mental health
industry.
8:30 MISCELLANY
8:45. POETRY READING:
Audrey Lorde reads from her recent
' works. She has published, The First
Cities, Cables to Rage, From a Land
Where Other People Live. Produced by
Susan Howe.
9:15 WAR BABIES
Improvisational theatre with War
7:00 ROOM 101
With Steve Post.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEWS
A rebroadcast of last night’s News.
10:00 MORNING MUSIC
Works of the twentieth century, with
special consideration given to
composers who are now breathing, or
whose spirit was of our time. Also
some jokes. With Jim Theobald.
12:00 PROGRAM
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12:05 HOUSING NOTEBOOK
Produced by Esther Rand.
2:00 THIS IS JAZZ
Host Larry Davis presents a variety of
jazz and often talks with guest artists.
4:00 PRAXIS
Live radio with Paul MclIsaac.
6:00 PROGRAM
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COMMUNITY BULLETIN
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6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events with
Marty Goldensohn.
7:30 WASHINGTON REPORT
8:30 THE RADIO
More The Tree Where Man Was Born,
a documentoid about the Serengeti
DECEMBER 4th
‘Songs from “Carmina Burana” (12th
Plain. Also, the continuing adventure
of Barnett Frummer—A Militant
Underachiever. Directed by Tim
Jerome; produced by Charles Potter; —
technical direction by David Rapkin. *
(Rebroadeast December 14th.)
9:00 ART TALK od
Cindy Nemser, Author and editor of
the Feminist Art Journal, talks to
three women artists about working
out a “feminist consciousness.
Participants in the discussion are Anne
Healy, fabric sculptor; Toby Zausner, —
magic realist painter; and Nancy
Grossman whose mixed media works |
deal mostly with the figure. Produced — =
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10:00 A DELICATE BALANCE
Marian McPartland shares music and —
reminiscences with fellow musicians. —
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THURSDAY,
5: 00 A CONSORT OF EARLY
MUSIC
Josquin des Prez:“Ave Maris Stella;
Century)’ Bach: The Act of the hc
selections
PM
6:00 PROGRAM
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6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events. With”
Marty Goldensohn.
7:30 W.P.A. RADIO PROJECT
“The Crisis in Municipal
Finance” ;
A production ofa radio seript produced ;
in the 1930’s under the Federal =
Theatre Project of the Works Progress -
Administration. The play unfolds at —
3:00 a.m. in the bedroom of a Mayor 0 f
a large city that has just gone —
bankrupt. The Mayor, an outraged _ 4
citizen, a policeman and a voice must
find a solution by dawn. Produced by
The Labor Theatre with Bonnie
Bellow. §
TEN-WEEK COURSE
Session Four: The Rise of
Monopolies
political economics, which has bee ma
designed to stimulate critical
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discussion about the economic
system—its history and its future.
Supplementary written materials are
available and audience participation
by telephone is encouraged.
Conducted by economists David
Gordan and William Tabb, and
produced by Bonnie Bellow.
11:55 PROGRAM .
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12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE
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FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 5th
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5:00 HOUR OF THE WOLF
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Freund.
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_ Marty Goldensohn.
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i REPORT
_ A weekly roundup of news on the
neighborhood level, selected primarily
from the various community
_ newspapers in the city’s boroughs.
Presented each Friday evening
following the News, and produced by
Nathan Weber.
9:00 THE WBAI FREE MUSIC
STORE
___ _Sergiu Luca and the Music
Fraternity
-Sergiu Luca, whose recent concerts
and recordings have made use of
-oque instruments, will be
music by Vivaldi and _.
corded at last Saturday’s
M sie Store.
:55 PROGRAM
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5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE
~~" NIGHT BEFORE
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6:00 PROGRAM
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9:00 THE WBAI FREE MUSIC
: STORE
Peter Schickele Returns
Peter (P.D.Q. Bach) Schickele returns
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and songs. At press time, works to be
~ performed include “Summer Trio” for
pte, cello and flute; songs from “The
ight of the Burning Pestle,” based
onaplay by Fletcher Beaumont; and a
setting of the poem “St. Theresa’s
Bookmark” for violin, percussion, and
piano four-hands. Performers include
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Hunt, Don Jennings. You're invited to
be a part of the studio audience at 359
East 62nd Street, just west of 1st
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5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE
NIGHT BEFORE
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8:00 NEWS
A rebroadcast of last night’s News.
2:00 DER VASS DERTAILT
GESCHICTES
“He who tells stories”
Isaac Bashevis Singer came to the
United States from Poland in 1935 and
went to work for the Jewish Daily
Forward. He’s been there ever since
and has probably done more than any
other author to familiarize people all
over the world with the flavor of
European-Jewish Life before World
War II, as well as the ideas and
contributions of the Yiddish culture
and language through his stories.
Jan Albert talks with Singer about
his latest book Passions and a new
play, currently on Broadway, Yentl
the Yeshiva Boy.
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6:30 NEWS
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MONDAY,
DECEMBER 8th
5:00 COUNTING SHEEP
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7:00 TAKING IT EASY—BUT
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9:00 PROGRAM
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NEWS
A rebroadcast of last night’s news.
9:30 MORNING MUSIC
The Laughing Cavalier presents The
Orfeo Catala. The renowned Catalan
chorus, founded by Don Luis Millet, is
heard in its legendary, controversial,
and somewhat mysterious recording of
Ludwig von Beethoven’s Missa
Solemnis.
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1:00 THE FOUNDATION OF
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AFRICAN HISTORY
Southern Origins of Egypt
In the past, Egyptian Civilization has
been thought of as having suddenly
sprung into existence full-blown
without precedence, and separate
from the African scene. However,
research has proven these teachings to
be erroneous and omissive. Lecturer:
Ira Smith, noted historian.
2:00 ADVENTURES IN JAZZ
Presented by Mickey Bass.
4:00 IRSAY IN THE AFTERNOON
6:00 PROGRAM
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6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events by Marty
Goldensohn. (December 9th.)
7:30 GETTING AROUND
Discussions, whispers, and guffaws on
artists and arts. Moderated by
Courtney Callender.
or’
8:30 MISCELLANY
8:45 MUSIC AFTER PEARL
, HARBOR
Composer Jude Quintiere plays and
talks about his music.
10:15 MAJOR CONTEMPORARY
WRITERS
Jerzy Kosinski, “The Devil
Tree”
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subject matter. If you feel you might
be offended by such subject matter,
please tune away for the next hour
and forty-five minutes and rejoin us
again at midnight. :
Jerzy Kosinski reads selected
passages from the second of his novels
on America life, The Devil Tree. Inthe
ensuing conversation with Charles
Ruas, the relationship of power to
freedom is examined in terms of the
novel’s protagonist, Jonathan Whalen,
the man who has everything. The
author’s own experiences, and
biography, are related to this work.
Executive producer, Charles Ruas.
Co-producers: Lin Harris and Bill
Kortum.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 SWAN SONG
Beginning tonight and continuing for
the next three Mondays in December
at this time, Mickey Waldman
presents an unabridged reading of A
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
The readers include people from
WBATI’s staff and listening audience,
and celebrity guests. You are invited
Guardianphoto/ Patrick Smith
to read along with us, and enjoy the
book. Produced by Mickey Waldman.
TUESDAY,
DECEMBER 9th
5:00 MORNING WATCH
Live radio with Bill Monoghan.
7:00 TAKING IT EASY—BUT
TAKING IT!
With Larry Cox.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
* NEWS
A rebroadeast from December 8th.
10:00 MORNING MUSIC
Those same twelve notes over and
over again. Produced by Judith
Sherman.
12:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:05 LUNCHPAIL
Live radio with Paul Gorman.
2:00 This hour has been left open to
present a program of special interest.
For details, call Folio-by-Phone at
826-1818, or listen to Program
Announcements.
3:00 GETTING AROUND
Rebroadecast from December 8th.
4:00 JAZZ SAMPLER
A usually free-associative,
more-or-less historically-inclined,
approximate two hours of recorded
jazz.
Presented by Bill Farrar.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events by Marty
Goldensohn. (December 10th.)
7:30 LETTERS FROM
PORTUGAL: Part 1
Events in Portugal are changing
quickly. The range of political parties
and shifting alignments are complex.
Many fear civil war. Portugal is the
first advanced capitalist society to give
birth to a revolutionary process, a
source of concern and anxiety for both
the Left and the Right.
Our special programs on Portugal
this month will try to focus both on
questions of revolutionary theory and
they are being argued and fought for in
Portugal, as well as looking at the
human forces at work.
This program will be concluded
tomorrow night at 7:30. The probram
will be broadcast in its entirety
December 12th at noon.
8:30 MISCELLANY
8:45 POETRY IN OUR TIME
A second reading by Karen Swenson,
author of Attic of Ideals. Produced by
Paul Oppenheimer.
9:15 this slot has been left open for a
program of special interest. For
details, listen to Program
Announcements or call
- Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818.
3:00 JACK SPICER
The second of two programs on the late
San Francisco poet, Jack Spicer. On
this program he reads from his book
Language. Produced by Mark Weiss
with Susan Howe.
11:00 GAY ALTERNATIVES
A program about alternate gay
lifestyles. Produced for and by the gay
community. Hosted by Ronald Gold.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
“We wish to plead our own cause. Too
long have others spoken for
a SS
es
Folio, December 1975 Page ee
”—Freedom’s Journal, March 16, NEWS encouraged. COMMUNITY NEWS 4
2 pneed by Clayton Riley of A rebroadcast of last night’s News. 10:00 DICK AND JANE GO TO REPORT d oe
oductions. : d f th q
10:00 MORNING MUSIC CHOIR PRACTICE. A. weekly roundup of news on thes
WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 10th
5:00 MORNING WATCH
Live radio with Bill Monaghan.
7:00 ROOM 101.
With Steve Post.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEWS
A rebroadcast of last night’s News.
10:00 MORNING MUSIC
Works of the twentieth century, with
special consideration given to
composers who are now breathing, or
whose spirit was of our time. Also
some jokes. With Jim Theobald.
12:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:05 THE FORUM
Produced by Deloris Costello of TCB
Productions.
2:00 THIS IS JAZZ
Host Larry Davis presents a variety of
jazz and often talks with guest artists.
4:00 PRAXIS
Live radio with Paul MclIsaac.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events. With
Marty Goldensohn. (December 11th.)
7:30 LETTERS FROM
PORTUGAL: Part 2
For details, see Highlights and the
program listing for December 9th at
7:30 PM. The program will be
broadcast in its entirety December
12th at noon.
8:30 WIDE WORLD OF MUSIC
Islamic liturgy (Dervish Chants) and
African Tribal Music presented by the
late Dr. Henry Cowell.
9:00 ART REVIEW
Judith Vivell host a panel of three
women artists who deal with the
human figure: Mary Frank, whose
fired clay images combine all aspects of
nature; Henrietta Bagley, whose
monumental figures span every media;
and Juanita McN eeley, who paints
enormous narratives in series of
panels. The women discuss the erotic,
autobiographical, symbolic and
psycholo ae: aspects of their work.’
Produced by Judith Vivell.
10:00 DON CHERRY
Trumpeter, composer, singer Don
Cherry plays all kinds of wonderful
instruments and talks with Verna
Gillis about his music. Produced by
Verna Gillis.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 NUANCES
Live radio with Pepsi Charles.
THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 11th
5:00 A CONSORT OF EARLY
MUSIC
Josquin des Prez: Missa “L’ Homme
Armeé;” Secular works by Machaut
(14th century); and 16th century
German songs by Senfl and others.
7:00 ROOM 101
With Steve Post.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The first in a possible series on
heroines, unless last month’s program
was pre-empted by hearings, financial
crises or other acts of man, in which
case this program will consist of last
month’s material. Produced by Manya
LaBruja.
12:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:05 LUNCHPAIL
Live radio with Paul Gorman.
2:00 CAN’T ARGUE WITH
SUNRISE...A PAPER
MOVIE
Photographer and writer Lou
Stoumen has created the literature of
the future by interweaving
photography and the written word.
The Academy Award winning artist
discusses his work with Barbara
Wherein Richard Fioravanti, who
would join a chorus anyway, records
how he did it with but a passing
knowledge of musical notation,
unsophisticated voice, and mostly
enthusiasm. In fact, it’s not at all
difficult.
11:00 FILMS |
A program that explores film as
entertainment, as big business, as art, °
and finally, as the prime cultural force
in molding the consciousness of our
society. For details, listen to Program
Announcements or call
Folio-by-Phone (826-1818). Produced
by Paul MclIsaac.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE
Live radio with Bob Fass.
Tennessee Williams: Past and Present, Friday, December 12th at 7:30 pm.
Londin. Produced by Barbara Londin.
3:00 This time has been left open for a
program of special interest. For
details, listen to Program
Announcements or call
Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818.
4:00 WEATHERBIRD
Gary Giddens presents jazz recordings
from New Orleans to the Avant Garde.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events. With
Marty Goldensohn.
7:30 THE CITY IN CRISIS
City Magazine: In-depth reports on
the choreography of the city crisis. We
will continue to examine the roots of
the crisis, it affect on people’s lives, its
political implications, and how people
are responding to it. Produced by Gail
Pellet. (December 13th.)
8:30 POLITICAL ECONOMY: A
TEN-WEEK COURSE
Session Five: Spreading Out
Over the World
The fifth session in our ten-week
course on political economics
conducted by economists David
Gordan and William Tabb. (Produced
by Bonnie Bellow.)
Supplementary materials will be
made available. Audience
participation by telephone is
FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 112th
5:00 HOUR OF THE WOLF
The Friday Morning Science Fiction
Extravaganza. With Jim Freund.
7:00 ROOM 101
With Steve Post.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEWS
A rebroadcast of last night’s News.
10:00 MORNING MUSIC
With James Irsay.
12:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PORTUGAL
2:00 ECHOES IN BLACK MUSIC
Jazz from past years, witha sprinkling
of blues, gospel, rock, and current
releases. Presented by Gene Lewis.
4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME
“Sacred bullshit makes the
metaphysical flowers grow.”— Aiden
Kelly, N.R.O.0.G.D. Live radio with
Margot Adler.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events. With
Marty Goldénsohn.
9:00 PROGRAM
neighborhood level, selected primarily :
from the various community
newspapers in the city’s boroughs. |
7:30 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: .
PAST AND PRESENT rs
A retrospective evening with ou
America’s most distinguished living P
playwright. iy
Part 1-Reading from his recently —
published and most revealing
Memoirs, his poetry and short stories, —
Mr. Williams discusses his artistic and 2
personal goals, as well as his plans for —
the future.
Part 2-In the Bar of a Tokyo H: otel
by Tennessee Williams. Directed and
produced by Bill Lentsch and Ms
company. The cast includes Peter
Britten, Maryellen Flynn, Laun
Maurer, Hoshin Seki and Laurel Yap. —
Produced by Rick Harris and
Charles Raus, with technical
assistance from Bill Kortum.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE
Live radio with Bob Fass.
SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 13th
5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE
NIGHT BEFORE
Live radio with Gary Fried.
8:00 NEWS
A rebroadcast of last night’s News.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE SATURDAY MORNING
SHOW
(Is a last minute affair—but here’s
what you might hear.) a5 ad
9:05 Imagine!
9:30 (or so) Schools, Teacheragl ; 2
Students, Parents ete. — Ap
10:30 Something Terrific
11:30 Nina Mende Interviews... .!
Produced by Paul McIsaae and Jane
Solar. s
12:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
LUNCHPAIL
2:00 THE CITY IN CRISIS
City Magazine: In-depth reports on
the choreography of the city crisis.
aes by Gail Pellet. (December
11th.
3:00 WOMEN’S STUDIES
Viv Sutherland interviews Sarah
Pomeroy, author of Goddesses, Whore,
Wives, and Slaves.
4:00 LATIN MUSIC
Sometimes live, sometimes on
recording. Producers of this series are:
Max Salazar, Dr. Kenneth Leo Rosa,
and Carlos de Jesus.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
With Abraham Aig. (December | 14th. )
7:00 SALUD: Essential Amino Acids
This month we discuss nutrition and
infant foods as part of our continuing
exploration of a filth-free balanced
diet. Produced by Richard Harris.
8:00 BEYOND THE BEDROOM
WALL
Author Larry Woiwode reads
passages from his latest book, Beyond
the Bedroom Wall, a poetic saga
tracing three generations of a North»
Dakotan family, the Neumillers. Mr.
Woiwode is interviewed by Lin
Harris-Rosechild. 4
9:00 THE WBAI FREE MUSICS
STORE
The Concord String Quartede
Anall Bartok program! Mark Sone “a
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lola; and Norman
] ou’re invited to join us
in Studio C, 359 East 62nd Street, just
west of 1st Avenue. Produced by Ira
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Weitzman. Broadcast list, in stereo.
11:00 THE READING
EXPERIMENT:
John Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem
Poets, Part IV
This program contains frank
language. If you feel you might be
- offended by such language, please
tune away for the next hour and
rejoin us again at. midnight.
“Giorno’s Poetry System’s has
essentially been working with the idea
that you have a poet and you have an
audience, and at some point between
and the work of the
the two, they make contact. . .and that’
point of communication is open to
endless possibilities.” —John Giorno
Inaconversation with Charles Ruas
and Lynda Perry, John Giorno
discusses the possibilities of the
telephone, social neurosis in America,
oets reading:
Michael McClure, Ed Dorn, Fran
O'Hara, Frank Lima, Bill Berkson,
Larry Fagin, Paul Blackburn, Philip
Whelan, John Ashberry, Clark
Coolidge, Charles Amirkhanian,
_ Bernadette Mayer, John Cage.
Produced by ‘Lynda Perry.
Executive Producer Charles Ruas.
11:55 PROGRAM
_ ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE
30 PROGRAM
~ ANNOUNCEMENTS
- HERE OF A SUNDAY
MORNING
: ‘IS. Bach-Cantata #36 “Schwing
Freudig Euch Empor,”
Stravinsky—“Appollon Musagete,”
Ruggles—“Suntreader,” Ligeti—“Lux
Aeterna,” and other works. Presented
by Chris Whent.
11:00 IN THE: SPIRIT
Varieties of religious experience. For
program details, call Folio-by-Phone
(826-1818), or listen for Program
Announcements. fs
12:30 PROGRAM
at ANNOUNCEMENTS
1:00 FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT
A look at India’s independence with
- Dominique Lapierre, co-author of
Freedom at Midnight. Included in the
program are interviews with Ghandi’s
assassins; and with India’s last
Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten; as
well as passages from the book.
Produced by Richard Harris.
2:30 This-time slot has been left open .
to broadcast a program of special
interest. For details, listen to
Program Announcements, or call
Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818.
4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME
~ “A eaveisahole onits side.” —Firesign
Theatre. Live radio with Margot
Adler.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS ~*~
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
With Abraham Aig.
7:15 AEC/ALTERNATE ENERGY
COMMITTEE
Lindsay Audin continues his
investigations of energy and science °
with an effort to expose the economic
bases of technology. For details listen
to the Program Announcements or call
Folio by Phone at 826-1818.
(December 0)
8:15 MISCELLANY
8:30 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC
Produced by Tom Whitmore.
(December 18th.)
9:30 THE RADIO
More of The Tree Where Man Was
Born, and the further advertures of
Barnett Frummer—<A: Militant
Underachiever. (December 3rd.)
10:00 FEMINISM
This ongoing series of programs
considers the material, as well as the
theoretical and spiritual dimensions of
feminism today. Produced by Nanette
Sembee Next program December
th.
11:00 MUSIC OF INDIA
With Ravi Shankar. Sixth program in
a twelve part series broadcast on
alternate Sunday-nights at this time.
This program: Raga Dabari Kanahara,
discussions of gamaka, practice of two
sargams (song forms). Chanting of the
Bedas. Produced by Ann McMillan.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE
Live radio with Bob Fass.
15-16-17 |
Once again, the 1975 Minithon—our
latest attempt to make fund raising
less arduous than usual for both the
listeners and the staff. We’ve pared off
just one week of regular programming
in December, in two.blocks of four and
three days each. For a run-down of the
gruesome financial facts that make
this Minithon necessary, turn to
“Report to the Subscriber” on page 2
of the Folio. Our financial crisis?s real,
if perennial, so please make your
contribution today. Support
Minithon-by-Mail, or make your
donation via the coupon on page 15.
Get your holiday shopping over with
the painless way by giving a gift
subscription. We'll send the recipient a
card informing them of your gift. Of
- eourse, you can always phone in your
pledge. And then, send your
contribution to Pacifica
Foundation-WBAI, P.O. Box 12345,
Church Street Station, New York,
N.Y. 10249.
The scheduled programs for the
next three days are as follows:
MONDAY,
DECEMBER 15th
AM
5:00 COUNTING SHEEP
Live radio with Jan Albert.
7:00 TAKING IT EASY — BUT
TAKING IT!
With Larry Cox..
PM
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events. With
Marty Goldensohn.
12:00 SWAN SONG
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles
Dickens, picks up from last Monday at
this time. Readers include some
WBAI staff members and listeners,
and guest celebrities. Produced by
Mickey Waldman.
Anne Jackson, A Tale of Two Cities reader, Swan Song, Mondays at midnight
TUESDAY,
DECEMBER 16th
AM
5:00 MORNING WATCH
With Bill Monaghan.
7:00 TAKING IT EASY — BUT
TAKING IT!
With Larry Cox.
PM
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events. With
Marty Goldensohn.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 WONDERS OF MUSIC
An attempt to introduce more people
to the relevancy and joy of good music.
_ Produced by J.D.
WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 17th |
5:00 MORNING WATCH
With Bill Monaghan.
7:00 ROOM 101
With Steve Post.
Kathryn Tidyman
December 1975, Folio
6:00 PROGRAM
PM ANNOUNCEMENTS _.
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events. With
Marty Goldensohn.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 NUANCES
Live radio with Pepsi Charles. Sandra
Gregg, Cyndi Hinton, Tyrone Laws,
Martin Nelson, and Michelle Thomas
are co-hosts.
THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 18th
5:00 A CONSORT OF EARLY
MUSIC
Ceremonial music of the Early
Renaissance by Dufay, Josquin, Isaac,
and others. Byrd and Tallis: selections
from “Cantiones Sacrae, 1575.”
Gabrieli: Symphoniae Sacrae,
selections. Produced by Ted Cohen.
7:00 ROOM 101
With Steve Post.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEWS
A rebroadcast of last night’s News.
With Marty Goldensohn.
10:00 MORNING MUSIC
Requiem Aeterna-—Be glad you woke
up for this one. Presented on tape.
Produced by Kathy Kurs.
12:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
LUNCHPAIL
Live radio with Paul Gorman.
2:00 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC
(December 14th.) é
3:00 THE RITE OF FOOTBALL...
The Great American Football
Ritual
An avid football fan, Anthropology
Professor William Arens, talks with
Barbara Londin about football and the
role it plays in American society.
Produced by Barbara Londin.
4:00 WEATHERBIRD
Gary Giddens presents jazz recordings
from New Orleans to the Avant Garde.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events with
Marty Goldensohn. (December 19th.)
7:30 THE CITY IN CRISIS |
City Magazine: In-depth reports on
the choreography of the city crisis. We
will continue to examine the roots of
the crisis, its effect on people’s lives,
its political implications, and how
people are responding to it. Producer:
Gail Pellett.
8:30 POLITICAL ECONOMICS: A
TEN-WEEK COURSE.
Session Six: Business Cycles and Their
Consequences. The sixth session in
our ten-week course on political
economics conducted by economists
David Gordan and William Tabb.
Supplementary materials will be made
available and audience participation
by telephone is encouraged. Produced
by Bonnie Bellow.
10:00 MEVLANA’s 702nd
ANNIVERSARY
A special tribute to Jelaluddin Rumi, ©
the Persian mystical poet and founder
of the Mevlevi (“Whirling”) Dervishes.
Includes recordings of Mevlevi music,
selections of Rumi’s poetry, historical
background, and an interview and
demonstration of Turkish classical
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’ instruments with two Turkish
musicians. Produced by Mare Gold.
11:00 FILMS
A program that explores film as
entertainment, as big business, as art,
and finally, as the prime cultural force
in molding the consciousness of our
society. For details, listen to Program
Announcements or call
Folio-by-Phone (826-1818). Produced
by Paul Mclsaac.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
RADIO UNNAMEABLE
Live radio with Bob Fass.
FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 19th
5:00 HOUR OF THE WOLF
The Friday Morning Science-Fiction
Extravaganza. With Jim Freund.
7:00 ROOM 101
With Steve Post.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEWS
Rebroadcast from last night.
10:00 MORNING MUSIC
With James Irsay.
12:00 This slot has been left open for a
program of special-interest. For
details, listen to Program
Announcements or call
Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818.
1:00 REPORT TO THE LISTENER
Larry Josephson, WBAI’s Station
Manager, reviews recent
developments and spews forth
financial data of this station. Listener
phone calls invited. No rebroadcast, so
you'd better catch it now.
2:00 ECHOES IN BLACK MUSIC
Jazz from past years, witha sprinkling
of blues, gospel, rock and current
releases. Presented by Gene Lewis.
4:00 UNSTUCK IN _TIME
Live radio with Margot Adler. “We
are robots created by DNA to produce
more DNA.”~a noted biologist.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
Report of the events of the day with
Marty Goldensohn. (December 20th.)
COMMUNITY NEWS
REPORT
Weekly roundup of news on the
neighborhood level, selected primarily
from the various community
newspapers in the city’s boroughs.
Presented each Friday evening
following the regular news, and
produced by Nathan Weber.
7:30 RETROSPECTIVE ON
VIOLET LANG
Poet, playwright and founder of the
Poet’s Theater of Boston, Violet
(“Bunny”) Lang was a remarkable
woman whose ieee lives on. Poets
John Ashberry, Gregory Corso, John
Hollander, James Merrill, Richard
Wilbur, as well as artist Edward
Gorey, reminisce about Bunny Lang
and read from her poetry. Alison Lurie
reads from her memorial to Ms. Lang
which introduces the recently
published V.R.Lang Poems & Plays
(Random House). As a special addition
to the evening, one of Ms. Lang’s
one-act plays, J Too Lived in Arcadia,
will be performed by Ruth Ford,
Marian Seldes, and Earl Hyman.
Produced by Charles Ruas and Rick
Harris.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
RADIO UNNAMEABLE
Live radio with Bob Fass.
SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 20th
5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE
NIGHT BEFORE
Live radio with Gary Fried.
8:00 NEWS
Rebroadeast from December 19th.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE SATURDAY MORNING
SHOW
A mix of kids - foods - comedy - plants -
music - poetry and other snappy talk.
This program features “Kids’ Radio,”
with kids‘and adults from the Teachers
and Writers Collaborative.
12:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
LUNCHPAIL
Live radio with Paul Gorman.
2:00 BETWEEN THE LINES
Rebroadecast from December 19th.
3:00 WOMEN’S STUDIES
Kathleen Cleaver, Brion Gysin, Ted
Berrigan, David Henderson, Gerard
Malanga, Joe Brainaird, Allen
Ginsberg, Maureen Owen. Produced
by Lynda Perry. Executive Producer
Charles Ruas.
9:00 THE FREE MUSIC STORE
The Canticum Novum Singers in a
concert of works by Purcell,
Monteverdi, Brahms, Schumann, and
others. Join us in Studio C, 359 East
62nd Street, just west of First
Avenue. Produced by Ira Weitzman.
BROADCAST LIVE, in STEREO.
11:00 MOISE AND THE WORLD
OF REASON
Tennessee Williams reads and
discusses passages from his recently
published novel, Moise and the World
of Reason. The discussion is
moderated by Charles Ruas and Rick .
Harris.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE
Live radio with Bob Fass.
Retrospective on Violet Lang, Friday, December 19th at 7:30 pm.
Aggression, carefully taught. Viv
Sutherland interviews Irene Javors
and others.
4:00 LATIN MUSIC \
Sometimes live, sometimes on
recording. Producers of this series are
Max Salazar, Dr. Kenneth Leo Rosa,
and Carlos De Jesus.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
MISCELLANY6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events with
Abraham Aig. (December 21st.)
7:00 SALUD
Each week, we explore the areas
which affect the quality of life and
lifestyles that are common to us all.'On
Grow Your Own, we discuss plants
with Liz Christy. Hosted by Gerry
Hatch.
8:00 THE READING
EXPERIMENT:
John Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem
Poets — Part V
This program contains frank
language. If you feel you might be
offended by such language, please
tune away for the next hour and
rejoin us at 9:00 PM.
Inaconversation with Charles Ruas
and Lynda Perry, John Giorno
discusses his personal poetry, the
erformance Spee. of poetry and the
ife and work of the poets reading:
Emmett Williams, Ed Sanders.
SUNDAY,
DECEMBER 21st
5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE
NIGHT BEFORE
Live radio with Gary Fried.
8:00 NEWS
Rebroadeast from December 20th.
8:30 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
HERE OF A SUNDAY
MORNING
J.S. Bach-—Cantata #21, “Ich Hatte
Viel Bekummernis”;
Vivaldi—Concerto Grosso in F Minor,
Opus 8, #4; Handel—“The Messiah
(Part 1)” and other works. Presented
by Chris Whent.
11:00 IN THE SPIRIT
Varieties of religious experience. For
details, call Folio-by-Phone
(826-1818), or listen to Program
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12:30 PROGRAM
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1:00 A program of special interest.
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2:00 FINE AND DANDY:
The Music of Kay Swift
11:00 ECHOES FR(¢
She wrote hit songs, was a friend and
confidante of the Gershwins, ran away
to a ranch in Oregon with a rodeo ~
cowboy. Stay tuned for more he
adventures with Kay Swift. Produced —
by Judith Sherman.
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Live radio with Margot Adler. Today 2
is Yule! Celebrate the rebirth of th
Sun.
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6:30 NEWS
With Abraham Aig. (December 22nd. a.)
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Lindsay Audin continues his :
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with an effort to expose the economic
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8:15 MISCELLANY ——
8:30 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC
Produced by Tom Whitmore.
9:30 W.P.A. RADIO PROJECT:
“The Great Dark” —
A radio production written in the
1930’s under the Federal Theatre
Project of the Works Progress :
Administration. This play is the story
of a mine explosion and the miners’
wives who wait for word of the fate of
their husbands. Produced by The
Labor Theatre with Bonnie Bellow. —
10:00 This slot has been left open fora
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details, listen to Program
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The lyric and music of Ce “le: peoples
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11:55 PROGRAM Sea
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RADIO UNNAMEABLE
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MONDAY,
DECEMBER 22nd
5:00 COUNTING SHEEP
_ So who’s counting? Live ae with Jan -
Albert.
7:00 TAKING IT EASY — BUT
TAKING IT!
With Larry Cox.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEWS
Rebroadeast from December 21st.
10:00 MORNING MUSIC
Through the Opera Glass presented by
Martin Sokol. Rimsky-Korsakov’s
Christmas Eve.
12:00A program of special interest.
For details, listen to Program
Announcements, or call
Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818.
1:00 THE FOUNDATION OF
AFRICAN HISTORY
Egypt: The Golden Age
Egyptian History is not only African
History, but also Black History. In
spite of the belief that most ancient
history was passed down via the.
spoken word, in the case of Egypt,
volumes have been written in minute
detail, and are well preserved and
buried in present day
archives—although seldom do they.
come to the light of the public. ‘s
Participating lecturers:Y.
Ben-Jochannan, G. Simmons, and Ira /
Smith, all noted historians.
2:00 ADVENTURES IN JAZZ
Presented by Mickey Bass.
4:00 IRSAY IN THE AFTERNOON
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6:00 PROGRAM
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COMMUNITY BULLETIN
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: MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events by Marty
Goldensohn. (December 23rd.)
7:30 GETTING AROUND
Discussions, whispers, and guffaws on
artists and the arts. Moderated and
produced by Courtney Callender.
(December 23rd.)
8:30 MISCELLANY
8:45 BILL HOWLE’S FOURTH
ANNUAL CHRISTMAS
PROGRAM
In all its glory.
10:15 MAJOR CONTEMPORARY
WRITERS
11:55 PROGRAM
_ ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 SWAN SONG
_ This year’s marathon reading of A
Tale of Two Cities, by Charles
_ Dickens, continues. Read along with
_ WBALI staff and listeners, and guest
celebrities. Produced by Mickey
Waldman.
_ TUESDAY,
DECEMBER 23rd
5:00 MORNING WATCH
_ Live radio with Bill Monaghan.
‘TAKING IT!
aN ith Larry Cox.
- 9:00 PROGRAM
¢ OUNCEMENTS
a
elie S$ x te
cast from last night. oo
ry b: ‘0:
Ret oes
~ 10:00 MORNING MUSIC
_ Chaos out of order. Produced by
_ Judith Sherman.
12:00 PROGRAM
ES ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:05 LUNCHPAIL
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f- 2:00 AEC/ALTERNATE ENERGY
COMMITTEE
. Rebroadeast from December 21st.
_ 3:00 GETTING AROUND
Rebroadeast from December 22nd.
4:00 JAZZ SAMPLER
A usually free-associative,
_ more-or-less historically-inclined,
approximate two hours of recorded
jazz. Presented by Bill Farrar.
6:00 PROGRAM
es ANNOUNCEMENTS
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BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events by Marty
Goldensohn. (December 24th.)
7:30 THE CITY IN CRISIS
_ City Magazine: In depth reports on the
_ choreography of the city crisis. We will
continue to examine the roots of the
crisis, its affect on people’s lives, its
political implications, and how people
are responding to it. Produced by Gail
Pellett.
8:30 MISCELLANY
8:45 POETRY IN OUR TIME
A reading by Samuel Menashe, author
of To Open. Produced by Paul
Oppenheimer. ;
9:15 This slot has been left open to
peerent a program of special interest.
or details, call Folio-by-Phone at
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11:00 GAY ALTERNATIVES
A pro about alternate gay
lifestyles. Produced for and by the gay
community. Hosted by Ronald Gold.
12:00 REFLECTIONS
Produced by Deloris Costello.
WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 24th
5:00 MORNING WATCH
Live radio with Bill Monaghan.
7:00 ROOM 101
With Steve Post.
9:00 NEWS
Rebroadeast from last night.
10:00 MORNING MUSIC
Works of the twentieth century, with
special consideration given to
composers who are now breathing, or
whose spirit was of our time. Also
some jokes. With Jim Theobald.
12:05 EYE ON THE LAW
Produced by Conrad Lynn.
2:00 THIS IS JAZZ
Host Larry Davis presents a variety of
jazz and often talks with guest artists.
4:00 PRAXIS
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6:00 PROGRAM
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COMMUNITY BULLETIN
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MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events with
Marty Goldensohn. (December 25th.)
7:30 CHRISTMAS ORATORIO
J.S. Bach. Soloists: Ameling,
Fassbander, Laubenthal, and Prey.
The Bavarian Radio Orchestra and
Chorus conducted by Eugen Jochum.
Presented by Chris Whent.
10:40 GREGORIAN CHANTS
First Christmas Vespers.
11:25 MAGNIFICAT
J.S. Bach. Soloists: Stader, Topper,
Haefliger, and Fischer-Dieskau. The
Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra
conducted by Karl Richter.
11:55 PROGRAM
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12:00 NUANCES
Live radio with Pepsi Charles.
The City in Crisis, Tuesdays at 7:30 pm.
THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 25th
CHRISTMAS DAY |
5:00 A CONSORT OF EARLY
MUSIC
Special Christmas Program.
edieval and Renaissance Christmas
songs. Biber: Rosary Sonatas;
Schuetz: Christmas Oratoria; Mozart:
various Masonic works, finale from
“The Magic Flute.”
7:00 MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS
MORNING
Including: Gregorian Chant—The first
Mass for Christmas; J.S. Bach,
a #63 “Christen, Atzet Dirsen
ag.”
9:00 NEWS
A rebroadcast of last evening’s News.
9:30 WORDS AND MUSIC FOR
CHRISTMAS DAY
Chosen by Chris Whent and Charles
Ruas. Including: Dylan Thomas
reading “A Child’s Christmas in
Wales;” a Christmas story from
Dickens; and more.
2:30 LA CENERENTOLA
‘ The story of Cinderella, libretto by
Jacopo Ferretti, music by Gioacchino
Rossini.
Soloists: Teresa Berganza, Luigi
Alva, Renato Capecchi, Paolo
Montarsolo. The London Symphony
Orchestra and the Scottish Opera
Choir conducted by Claudio Abbado.
Presented by Chris Whent.
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events.
(December 26th.)
7:30 CHRISTMAS NIGHT
More programming in the spirit of the
ay.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE
Live radio with Bob Fass.
FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 26th
5:00 HOUR OF THE WOLF
The Friday Morning Science Fiction
Extravaganza. With Jim Freund.
7:00 ROOM 101
With Steve Post.
PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
9:00 NEWS
Rebroadcast from last night.
10:00 MORNING MUSIC
With James Irsay.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 THE CITY IN CRISIS
Rebroadcast from December 23rd.
1:00 This hour has been left open to
present a program of special interest.
For details, call Folio-by-Phone, or
listen to Program Announcements.
2:00 ECHOES IN BLACK MUSIC
Jazz from past years, witha sprinkling
of blues, gospel, rock and current
releases. Presented by Gene Lewis.
4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME
“Mister Order he runs
at a very good pace
But old Mother chaos
is winning the race.”
—Illuminatus—Part I
Live radio with Margot Adler.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events with
Marty Goldensohn. (December 27th.)
COMMUNITY NEWS
REPORT
A weekly roundup of news on the
neighborhood level, selected primarily
from the various community
newspapers in the city’s boroughs.
Presented each Friday evening
following the news, and produced by
Nathan Weber.
_7:30 WBAI-THEATER!
Two of New York’s little theaters
bring four one-act plays to radio.
First, The Little Theater on West 26th
Street presents three plays:
Pirandello’s A Man with a Flower in
His Mouth, Beckett’s Krapp’s Last
Tape, and Kafka’s Address to the
Academy. Then, a radio presentation
of Edie’s Home, an original one-act
play presented in conjunction with
Triad Playwrights Company.
Playwright Mylan Stitt is the
Executive Director of Triad
Playwrights Company. The role of
Edith is played by Judy Frank.
The productions are followed by
interviews with the directors and
performers.
Produced by Rick Harris and Janine
Cooper. Technical production by Peter
Zanger.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE
Live radio with Bob Fass.
SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 27th
5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE
NIGHT BEFORE
Live radio with Gary Fried.
8:00 NEWS
A rebroadcast of last night’s News.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE SATURDAY MORNING
SHOW
(Say, this is the last one in 1975-My,
how time does fly!)
9:05 Imagine! That.
9:30 (or so) More! More Kids,
more about schools. More,
more, more!
10:30 Something Special!
11:30 Nina Mende
Interviews... !
Produced by Paul and Jane.
12:00 PROGRAM
Folio, December 1975
ANNOUNCEMENTS
LUNCHPAIL
Live radio with Paul Gorman.
2:00 This slot has been. left open to
broadcast a program of special
interest. For details, listen to
Program Announcements or call
Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818.
3:00 WOMEN’S STUDIES
Mary, Our Lady Queen of Feminists.
This is the first anniversary
re-broadcast in honor of the holiday
season. Viv Sutherland interviews
Ann Plogsterth, member of Catholic
Women for the Equal Rights
Amendment and NOW-NY’s
Committee on Sexism in Religion.
4:00 LATIN MUSIC
Sometimes live, sometimes on
recording. Hosts of this series are Max
Salazar, Dr. Kenneth Leo Rosa, and
Carlos De Jesus.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
With Abraham Aig. (December 27th.)
7:00 SALUD
Beating the System
Jerry Hatch helps you fight back
against pollution of your physical and
psychological environment:
8:00 AN EVENING WITH MAYA
ANGELOU
Maya Angelou has written two books
of autobiography, J Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings, and Gather
Together in My Name, and two
volumes of poetry Just Give Mea Cool
Drink of Water ‘fore I Die, and the
recently published Oh Pray My Wings
Are Gonna Fit Me Well. During this
conversation with Lin Harris,. Ms.
Angelou reads and sings passages and
poems from all her works, and
discusses what writing means to her
sue the effect her art has had on her
life.
9:00 THE WBAI FREE MUSIC
STORE:
Lucy Lowe Sings America!
Lucy Lowe returns with the second of
her three Holiday concerts at the Free
Music Store (the next one is Saturday,
February 21st). Miss Lowe is a former
vaudeville star whose concert of
American popular songs in 1936 was
the first such concert to be held in the
then very formal Town Hall. You’re
invited to be a part of the studio
audience at 359 East 62nd Street, just
west of First Avenue. Produced by Ira
Weitzman. Broadcast live in Stereo.
11:00 THE READING
EXPERIMENT
John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem
Poets — Part VI
This program contains frank
language. If you feel you might be
offended by such language, please
tune away for the next hour and
rejoin us at midnight.
In a discussion with Charles Ruas
and Lynda Perry, John Giorno
explains the wide variety of poetry
being written in America by his
contemporaries. His anecdotes and
reminiscences introduce the readings:
Edwin Denby, Helen Adam, Dianne
DiPrima, John Weinérs, Robert
Duncan, John Cage, Denise Levertov,
Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, John
Ashberry, Charles Stein.
Produced by Lynda Perry;
Executive Producer, Charles Ruas.
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE
Live radio with Bob Fass.
SUNDAY,
DECEMBER 28th
5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE |
NIGHT BEFORE
Live radio with Gary Fried.
8:00 NEWS
Rebroadcast from last night.
8:30 HERE OF A SUNDAY
MORNING
J.S. Bach—Cantata #28 “Gottlob nun
Geht Das Jahr Zu Ende” and Cantata
#171 “Gott, Wie Dein Name, So Ist
Auch Dein Ruhm.”
Mozart—Symphony #40 in G Minor.
Beethoven-Symphony #9 in D
Minor. Presented by Chris Whent.
11:00 IN THE SPIRIT
Varieties of religious experience. For
details, call Folio-by-Phone at
826-1818, or listen to Program
Announcements. Produced by Lex
Hixon.
12:30 This slot has been left open for a
program of special interest. For -
details, call Folio-by-Phone (826-1818)
or listen to Program Announcements.
Born, and the further adventures of
Barnett Frummer-A Militant
Underachiever. (December 31st.)
10:00 FEMINISM
This ongoing series of programs
considers the material, as well as the
theoretical and spiritual dimensions of
feminism today. Produced by Nanette
Rainone.
11:00 MUSIC OF INDIA WITH
RAVI SHANKAR
The seventh program in a twelve part
series broadcast on alternate Sunday
nights at this time. Tonight’s program:
Ravi Shankar speaks of the tala
system (rhythm), Raga Adama, and
Indian instruments. Produced by Ann
MeMillan.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Pablo Casals, subject of A Tribute to Don Pablo, Monday, December 29th
at 9:30 am.
2:30 RANK AND FILE MEETING
During the last week in October, as the
city crisis worsened, rank and file
workers from a wide range of
industries came to WBAI to speak
their minds about their disagreements
with their bosses and their own union
leadership. This program is an excerpt
from that live event. Produced by
Bonnie Bellow.
4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME
Live radio with Margot Adler. “The
new witch burners have a stake in your
future, do you?”—A.A.D.L. ;
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events with
Abraham Aig. (December 29th.)
7:15 AEC/ALTERNATE ENERGY
COMMITTEE
Lindsay Audin continues his
investigations of energy and science
with an effort to expose the economic
_ bases of technology. For details, listen
to the Program Announcements or call
Folio by Phone at 826-1818.
(December 00)
8:15 MISCELLANY
8:30 GRASSROOTS OF MUSIC
Produced by Tom Whitmore. (January
Ist.)
_ 9:30 THE RADIO
More of The Tree Where Man Was
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE
Live radio with Bob Fass.
MONDAY,
DECEMBER 29th
5:00 COUNTING SHEEP
So who’s counting? Live radio with Jan
Albert.
7:00 TAKING IT EASY—BUT
TAKING IT!
With Larry Cox.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEWS
Rebroadcast from last night.
9:30 THE LAUGHING CAVALIER
A Tribute to Don Pablo.
' Mr. and Mrs. Euguen Istomin, .
Mieczyslaw Morszowski and H.L.
Kirk, author of Pablo Casals: A
Biography, reminisce with the.
Laughing Cavalier about Pablo Casals
. — “cellist, conductor, and human
being.” In addition, Mr. Morszowski
will play the first broadcast
performance of one of Maestro Casals’
piano pieces, and the els
Cavalier will present the worl
broadcast premiere of an unissued
record made by Casals in 1915.
2:00 ADVENTURES IN JAZZ
Presented by Mickey Bass.
4:00 IRSAY IN THE AFTERNOON
Rinehart and Winston) ® H.L. Kirk
H.L. Kirk, Pablo Casals:
United Nations
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6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events with _~
Marty Goldensohn. (December 30th.)
7:30 GETTING AROUND ;
Discussions, whispers and guffaws on
artists and the arts. Moderated and
produced by Courtney Callender.
(December 30th.)
8:30 THE MYSTICAL MUSIC OF
ALAN HOVHANESS
Renowned composer Alan Hovhaness -
talks about and shares records of his
music. Jim Theobald listens,
fascinated.
10:15 POET FROM PATERSON:
A Homage to William Carlos
Williams
Susan Howe, Lin Harris-Rosechild,
and Charles Ruas interview Reed
Whitmore, the author of “William
Carlos Williams: Poet from New
Jersey.” Bill Williams, the poet’s son, |
will share recollections of his father;
Allen Ginsberg will discuss the
influence of Williams on contempo
poetry; and the late poet will be heard _ |
In readings of his poems.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 SWAN SONG
WBAI’s marathon reading of A Tale of
Two Cities, by Charles Dickens,
concludes tonight with the final
readings by WBAI staff members and
listeners, and celebrity guests. ‘You
are invited to read along with us.
Produced by Mickey Waldman, with
help from many people who work at
the station, and whocame into —™
participate in the reading.
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TUESDAY, «9 a
DECEMBER 30th
5:00 MORNING WATCH
Live radio with Bill Monaghan. —
7:00 TAKING IT EASY—BUT
TAKING IT!
With Larry Cox.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEWS
Rebroadcast from last night.
10:00 MORNING MUSIC
Ira Weitzman presents some exciting _
live-on-tape moments from the WBAI ~
Free Music Store, and other tidbits.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 LUNCHPAIL 4
Live radio with Paul Gorman. :
2:00 AEC/ALTERNATE ENERGY 3
COMMITTEE -
Rebroadcast from December 27th. “
3:00 GETTING AROUND i
Rebroadecast from December 29th.
4:00 JAZZ SAMPLER
A usually free-associative, P
more-or-less historically-inclined, “
approximate two hours of recorded
jazz. Presented by Bill Farrar. :
6:00 PROGRAM 4
ANNOUNCEMENTS j
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD .
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS :
A report of the day’s events with _
Marty Goldensohn. (December 31st.)
7:30 ETHNI-CITY AND THE
- AMERICAN DREAM
The first in a new series exploring the —
ethnic history of New one Tonight ©
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will be interviews with people
currently involved in ethnic studies
and organizations. Produced by Gail
Pellett.
8:30 MISCELLANY
8:45 POETRY READING
Rochelle Owens reads from her
current work of poetry. She has
published The Joe 82 Creation Poems
and J am the Babe of Joseph Stalin’s
Daughter. Her plays include Futz and
What Came After and The Karl Marx
Play & Others. The New York
Strategy recently performed SHIH.
9:15 WAR BABIES
Improvisational theatre by the group
“War Babies,” with audience
participation invited. Phone 371-5200
to help create the program. Live.
10:15 This time slot has been left open
to broadcast a program of special °
interest. For details, listen to
Program Announcements or call
Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818.
11:00 GAY ALTERNATIVES
Two women and two men who believe
that they're gay not by accident or
conditioning, but by choice, discuss
the reasons for their belief, and
‘suggest that everybody-straight or
—has made a choice whether
ey re aware of it or not. Guests are:
Kitty Cotter of Lesbian Feminist
Liberation, Dean Hannotte and Tony
" Panico of the Ninth St. Center, and
>
Ginny Vida, former LFL
Spokeswoman and a board member of
‘the National Gay Task Force. Host .
and producer is Ronald Gold.
11:55 PRGGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 TCB/TAKING CARE OF
BUSINESS
WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 3ist
5:00 MORNING WATCH
' Live radio with Bill Monaghan.
7:00 ROOM 101
With Steve Post.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEWS
A rebroadcast of last night’s News.
10:00 MORNING MUSIC
Works of the twentieth century, with
special consideration given to
composers who are now breathing, or
whose spirit was of our time. Also
_ some jokes. With Jim Theobald.
12:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:05 T.C.B. MAGAZINE
A monthly round-up of local, national,
and international news; interviews
with newsmakers; and an extra
feature of the program: Speaking Out,
a segment where women/men from all
_ walks of life will comment on various
subjects and issues as they view them.
' Produced by Ronald Francis.
2:00 THIS IS JAZZ
Host seit Davis presents a variety of
jazz and often talks with guest artists.
4:00 PRAXIS
Live radio with Paul Mclsaac.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
BOARD
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events with
Marty Goldensohn. (January Ist.)
7:30 WASHINGTON REPORT
Capitol Punishment: Other views of
Capitolism from the estranged New
Yorkers in our Washington Bureau.
8:30 W.P.A. RADIO PROJECT
“Help Yourself’
A production of a radio script produced
in the 1930’s under the Federal
Theatre Project of the Works
- Progress Administration. This play is
a farce about an unemployed man who
creates a job for himself at a large bank
through the power of positive
thinking. Produced by The Labor
Theatre with Bonnie Bellow.
9:30 NEW YEAR’S EVE
A special holiday program of music for
the occasion, provided by Marian
McPartland and Bobby Short. Have
your evening out at home.
7:30 pm.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 HAPPY NEW YEAR!
NUANCES
Live radio with Pepsi Charles.
10:00 A DELICATE BALANCE
Marian McPartland shares music and
reminiscences with fellow musicians.
THURSDAY,
JANUARY Ist
5:00 A CONSORT OF EARLY
MUSIC
Presented by Ted Cohen.
7:00 MOZART DAY
Further Adventures of
Wolfgang Amadeus
Theodore
Gottlieb Mozart
child star and master of note.
Produced by Larry Josephson and
Judith Sherman.
6:30 NEWS
A report of the day’s events.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE
Live radio with Bob Fass.
Richard Rodgers, subject of The Sweetest Sounds, Friday, January 2nd at
FRIDAY,
JANUARY 2nd
5:00 HOUR OF THE WOLF
The Friday Morning Science Fiction
Extravaganza, with Jim Freund.
7:00 ROOM 101
Live radio with Steve Post.
9:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
9:05 NEWS
Rebroadcast from last night.
10:00 MORNING MUSIC
With James Irsay.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 ETHNI-CITY AND THE
AMERICAN DREAM
Rebroadcast from December 30th.
2:00 ECHOES IN BLACK MUSIC
4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME
Live radio with Margot Adler.
“Apotheosis, not apocalypse!
This is a revolution:
Report to your nearest tree!”
-Tim Zell
6:00 PROGRAM
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Richard Rodgers’ career in the musical
theatre has spanned more than 55
years over the course of which he
sustained two of the longest and most
successful partnerships the theatre
has known-with Lorenz Hart and
Oscar Hammerstein. Rodgers
continues to write with his current
collaborator, Sheldon Harnick, and
together they are writing a musical
based on the life of one of the Henry’s
of England to be produced this Spring.
Tonight, in tribute to Richard
Rodgers, we will present tons of
music; interviews with friends,
relatives, associates and the man
himself; readings from his
autobiography Musical Stages; and
lots more. Produced by Ira Weitzman
with Bruce Kenyon.
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and Carlos De Jesus.
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Death at an Early Age, talks with
David Nasau:about the American
system.of mass education and the
turmoil it produces within children and
the society at large.
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of the poets reading.
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Folio, December 1975
administration programs, community
arts councils, all kinds of state public
funding agencies and so on. Do you have
any feelings about that?
JH: The whole theatre now—the com-
mercial theatre is so small and so
unsound as to be negligible. The rest of
the theatre all over the country is’ all
virtually now on an institutional basis
and ona deficit basis. It has finally been
realized—a fact that is historically true
and which has been known in Europe
and even behind the Iron Curtain for
many years—is the arts in general and
theatre in particular is a deficit opera-
tion. That is to say the theatre cannot
live entirely by the sale of tickets. That
has been true from the Greeks, from the.
Elizabethans, through the French—
CC: I didn’t know that was true that far
back. I mean I know it’s certainly been
true here for a long time.
We're holding this interview right now
in your office, which is in Julliard
School, which is part of Lincoln Center
Complex, which represents a massive
public support of the arts in the sense of
bricks and mortar.
JH: Yes, indeed it does, and in the sense
of money that was poured into here to
keep the various projects functioning,
but I would like to point out to you that
the Lincoln Center is only about fifteen
years old. And in those fifteen years, the
value of the real estate in the twelve
blocks surrounding Lincoln Center has
appreciated by, I don’t know, a hundred
fifty million or more. I hope that the
Rockefellers, who were very generous in
giving money towards the creation of
Lincoln Center, have also profited little
from this rise in real estate. However,
the fact is, most of the people who have
profited from this enhancement of this
area of New York City haven’t given a
thing to the arts. The arts go around,
begging for money, and are treated with
a certain contempt by these very
business people who have made fortunes,
as a result of the presence of the artistic
people in Lincoln Center.
CC: And in this city it is very definitely
real estate, the real estate interests.
JH: Of course it’s real estate. It’s
builders, it’s investors. I live in a series
of buildings owned by the ALCOA
Corporation. The ALCOA Corporation
has made a great deal of money building
these buildings, and operating them.
But they would not have been there if it
had not been for Lincoln Center.
CC: Since the boards of directors of
places like Lincoln Center consist of this
whole oligarchy of people of financial
power, why is there such a dichotomy
between the people who run these places,
and the people who can afford. .. .
JH: Because the meshing has not yet
taken place, it’s beginning. . . .
CC: Even though the captains of
industry sit on boards.
JH: Yes, they don’t, uh,...The
boards are made up of rather limited
people. You don’t find the big banks and
the big industrialists on those boards,
you find people who are interested in the
arts, and who may be rich people, indeed
they are, many of them. But it’s not
quite the same.
CC: Do you feel that you’ve lived
through two kinds of government in-
volved in arts? One was the direct
subsidy to the artist, the twenty-two
dollars-and fifty-two cents per week, and
the freedom to do what you wanted. And
now, there is an enormous investment in
a place like Lincoln Center, not to single
it out, but it’s the most dramatic
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Of. &
JH: Well, uh finally, at long, long last,
the government is fully aware that the
arts have to be subsidized, just like
highways, or fisheries, or hospitals, or
anything else. There’s got to be some
kind of public money. It is a public
service, and this is now fully realized.
The amount of money is so negligible
compared to these other projects that
I’ve mentioned, that it’s not a burden on
the economy, and even though cut-backs
occur, they do not generally hit the tiny
amounts that are given to the arts. I
think more and more this will happen
and of course it is interesting that the
big growth in federal subsidy occurred
under Republican administrations.
CC: Which seems to be one of life’s little
ironies.
JH: I believe it has ceased to be a matter
of opinion, or a matter of being liberal or
conservative, I think the conservatives
are now just as aware of the necessity for
government aid, and encouragement to |
the arts as the so-called liberal govern-
ment.
CC: As we're talking in New York City,
and as a last question, and since New
York is facing the terrible problems
financially, that it is facing, any kind of
word-to-the-wise for the next year or
five?
JH: Well, New York City’s simply got
to, I don’t know what changes they will
make as a result of this crisis in our
government, but certainly if the New
York theatre is to come out of the real
trough of economic horror that it’s in
now, there’re going to have to be drastic
changes. I mean, for example, we’ve just
finished a very successful five week
repertory season here at the Harkness.
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two and a half times as much as it
anywhere else. Our deficit will
greater in five weeks of playing Ney
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CC: The usual culprit the people us all:
identify is the unions.
JH: No, the unions in part yes, the s
hands were getting between five
seven hundred a week, and the a
were getting two hundred dollars a w
They’re paying five musicians for d
nothing. But the fact is that that’s
part of the system. You can’t blame
unions, they’re perfectly right. Tl
system’s a speculative system. You
on a show and either it’s gonna close
two nights or it’s gonna run three ye
you're gonna get a big movie sale
naturally the people say what the he
We may be out of work in three days
let’s get what we can out of it. And
whole system of producing plays in
York is of an expense that makes
nonsense of the whole procedure.
CC: And you think the city governmen
can help do something about
somehow? *f
JH: I don’t know what the hell the
government can do. There should be
instance, we were very hard put to fine
theatre in which to give our season, there
was no public theatre. There was no
theatre that belonged to the city whi
we could have gone rent free and gi
these shows. In that respect when
crisis is over, I am sure that the city
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probably not at the moment.
CC: I guess not, yeah. I want to thank —
you for your optimism and sak Be ul
perspective. :
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ant the odds are that people will vote for
omeone by virtue of knowing the
‘son’s name, rather than the person's
record.
RK: I think that Washington is the
easiest city in the world to have news
own at you. There is less worry about
aking to reporters. In fact, up and
yn the line, until you hit a middle and
an er-middle bureaucracy, people expect
be called by reporters. There’s a whole
tnd istry here to tell you “The Story.”
; full-dress press conferences, they
nt you to come, write down what they
it to you, and go home. Your job is
there, write it down, and then go to
_telephones—find out what they
*t say, what they left out, unwrap all
pre-packaged information they’ve
nted you.
e job of a journalist working for the
en Record in northern New Jersey is
somebody to do something that
you a story in the paper. Here, you
; you're going to have a story. The
em is to find out the truth, at least
th that’s different from the one they
you.
If I go to briefings, which I do
time, there are some quotes which
bviously the quote of the day; like
rnor Carey saying New York would
n “economic Pearl Harbor.”’ But
are other things that speakers say,
times in asides; or it’s not the majn
er, but someone sitting at the table
will do something that’s very
ative. Other people won’t report it
use it’s not the major aspect or
al reason for the news conference or
ng.
For instance, I went to a briefing on
conomic pclicy, and the speaker’s
narks cent2red essentially on how to
t Third World demands for greater
in the economic structure of the
. But he presented it in a very
hing, liberal way. We will make
concessions, but more ea,
to do in order
ntion that what they
D ed anid that this Bniortant
‘st had recommended that Third
tions be given a greater voice in
as going on, which I consider
How does your approach to
ing differ from Paz’s?
n appreciation of the consequences
goes on in Washington is
a way of explaining the dif-
ce. Covering the Washington scene
mnally, you are covering essentially a
s of people talking in different
speeches, answers, colloquies,
, white papers, official papers. So
don’t see anything except people
g up, handing in pieces of paper,
sting down. And here’s where you
choice: you can watch the people
ing to each other, the curious things
do, the innuendos, the way they
heir eyebrows, or you can concen-
‘on the consequences | of the people
The danger for me is seeing people
e pie and forgetting how important
r effect is. It’s not just that some
on is nasty, and usually he is
that resolution will have an effect on
of people’ 's lives. In the presence of
rson, it’s hard to realize that.
have a James Thurber sense of the
I find myself standing beside
T’ve heard all my life, and I watch
as I might watch people on the
ay or in the grocery store. Because
d to be a little puffy, they are
ewhat amusing to me. When I report
ut them, I tend in my voice (I try not
copy) to have a “‘Take-a-look-at-
low!”’ attitude. But when you
at them as consequential people,
ome either champions or ene-
and it will be very hard for you to
a James Thurber attitude. Some-
do sound like I’m going to a
Third World As
ucing some nasty resolution, but |
time; and it would be insulting to listen
to sideshow all the time.
PC: My tendency is to ask, “What is
that person saying?” I remember at a
hearing on the B-1 bomber some time
ago, they were talking about “‘tactical
air strikes,’’ and I said, “‘Are you talking
about bombing people?’’ The answer
was, “Ahemmmm, ahemmm, ahemm.”
RK: When you talk English in Washing-
ton, it’s just trouble.
PC: You tend to be more interested in
how things work; I’m interested in how
the fact of their working affects people.
KT: But you both simplify things for the
audience.
RK: There’s another big difference
between Paz and me—our conception of
audience. When a journalist writes copy,
he or she has to decide who am I talking
to? What can I presume about my
audience? My sense is talk to as many
people as you possibly can, assume as
little as possible about them. While you
run the risk of talking to them like they
were little babies, or insulting them,
people will be thankful if you help them
to understand things—tell them stories
with word pictures that will make things
vivid—particularly the more difficult it
is.
On the nuts and bolts things for
Washington, I try not to use initials for
government agencies; I don’t identify
the names of committees, which would
be standard journalism procedure, un-
less it’s absolutely important to the
story. I avoid expressions like “‘on the
Senate side,” or ‘‘on the Hill.’”’ Why
bother if I can say it an easier way?
Paz and I get into problems when
we're discussing some struggle abroad—
or some struggle at home. Different
groups assign themselves names, alpha-
betical names, like the ABC-WT, AFL-
CIO, MGM. I don’t like to call them by
anything but the most broadly descrip-
tive name that I can. We got into trouble
in Southeast Asia when those countries
were falling... .
PC: Or rising.
RK: Or rising. We have extensive
arguments over what to call the people
who are falling or rising. Shall we call
them the Third Force. I’d say no,
because a lot of people don’t know what
the Third Force is.
PC: Robert thought they were the
neutrals. "
RK: Well, they were the in-betweens.
PC: You said nobody knew what the
Third Force was.
RK: I said everybody doesn’t know, and
let’s go for everybody.
PC: I felt, and I feel, that the regular
listeners to the Pacifica News broadcasts
know what the Third Force is. I don’t
want to dedicate 2 minutes and 45
seconds explaining what the Third Force
is. And I think it’s worse to omit talking
about the Third Force than to oversim-
plify who they are.
RK: And I would be careful about labels.
But I wouldn’t say don’t discuss what’s
happening in the world because you
can’t choose the right name for it. Why
shouldn’t the newscaster omit an unclear
term or use a descriptive term that gets
the idea across?
PC: I don’t think that was the question.
Your feeling was that they were neutrals,
and I was insisting they did have a
political position.
RK: Edwin Newman writes fascinating
stuff on the English language on radio.
A syntactical struggle does exist when
you're writing your copy.
At least we have the wonderfulness on
radio of not having an editor call us up
and say, “You have a minute and ten
seconds to do the story.’’ It’s a challenge
to us to see if in two or two and a half
minutes, which is much longer, which is
like a novella length. . .
PC: Which is actually much shorter than
my stories ever are.
RK: .. . or three minutes, even, we can
explain what’ 8 going on.
PC: I don’t know if I explain what’s
going on. I just say what I’m seeing.
That means different things to different
people.
RK: But to give a headline, which is all
you'll get on any other radio station, is
simply not enough.
If you're an intelligent person, you'll
want to know—in the case of the gas
shortage—what is the gas shortage?
Where is it? Why is there a shortage?
And for those people who say there is
none, what are they talking about? How
can sensible people looking at a range of
business experience come to such dras-
tically different conclusions? One says
the shortage is made up; another says
there’s just not enough gas to go around.
It’s not enough to do what I call ‘‘win-
loss” news; he says-she says; one-to-
nothing; he wins-she wins. In-depth
reporting is done in the newspapers all
the time. It’s not as if we were inventing
something. But it’s not done on radio.
PC: There are a lot of things which never
make their way into the public media—
electronic or print. Like once Ford gavea
news conference towards the end of our
involvement in Vietnam, in which he
said he wasn’t going to blame anybody.
Then he went on and he blamed every-
body except himself. I clipped his speech
and ran those things together. I can’t
say that no one else did that, because I
don’t know what everybody did. But
many journalists would choose not to
portray the speech in that way, or they
would have an understanding with their
editors that one does not present things
in such a way.
KT: You mentioned before that you felt
isolated from the WBAI audience.
I wish that we got more feedback than
we do.
RK: So do I. We got one letter this week
—the woman was convinced I was an
agent.
PC: Would you care to deny that in
print?
RK: Yeah, I’m not, never been, but I
was so happy to get even that letter.
We're far away from everybody, so we
don’t hear.
PC: We’re not so far away. Here we are.
People can call BAI and say they want
to know about something going on in
Washington, or that they want us to ask
someone in Washington a certain ques-
tion. We can ask the question. It’s
unfortunate that more people don’t do
that. We can serve the audience better if
we know what it wants. Robert and I sit
here debating, but we're not the two
extremes of the audience.
KT: How different is the newsgathering *
atmosphere now under the Ford ad-
ministration compared to the Nixon
years?
_PC: That would largely be a question
directed to the person covering the
White House. Mostly the people I deal
with are not so used to receiving calls
from reporters that they are likely to
have received orders about how to deal
with them. I don’t like attending White
House briefings because they’re boring.
Robert can describe your typical White
House briefing.
December 1975, Folio
here under President Nixon. I’ve been
mostly here during the Ron Nessen time.
But the singular most amazing surprise
to me as a reporter has been the White
House press corps.
KT: In what way?
RK: I cannot do justice to a White
House briefing. It takes place in the
press office which, as everyone knows,
used to be a swimming pool. Everyday
at 11 a.m., the press secretary enters a
room full of reporters. About 50% of
them are writing press, 30% are radio
and TV, hangers-on, associates and re-
searchers, and 20% are foreign press.
The main thing is the people are very
mean to each other. It’s just like third
grade, when you had a substitute
teacher coming in at PS 141—that’s Ron
Nessen. All these other people are the
class. Remember when you were a kid
and the sub came in, everybody would
go, “Pssst! psst! Farr-rr-rr out!’’ and
then start throwing spitballs— anything
to test the sub, right?
So Nessen comes in and will say, ““The
President this morning has had the usual
breakfast: of muffins and toast.’’ And
someone will shout, ‘‘How many muf-
fins, Ron?’’ And he'll say, ‘I’m not
sure...’ And the reporter says, ‘“You
don’t know, or you just won’t say? Come
on Ron, yesterday we asked you about
the muffins. Why are you holding back
on the muffins? Has he switched away
from muffins? Are you protecting the
muffin industry, Ron?”
And Nessen, instead of saying, oh,
this is stupid and smiling, he loses his
temper. This is a caricature, but change
the subject to something remotely
political, and this is what happens. And
finally Nessen goes, ‘I THINK WE’VE
HAD ENOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT
MUFFINS!!!!”
KT: Do you think they’re reacting in
part to the Zeigler years?
RK: Yeah. They think that they, as
reporters, are entitled to at least the
truth. A man shouldn’t make things up.
If he can’t answer the question, he
should say, “I don’t know.” or “‘I’ll find
out.’”” Ron Nessen, I think, is em-
barrassed if he doesn’t know the answer.
He comes in with this little book, and it
has all the questions he thinks will be
asked, and all the answers written out.
And God forbid someone should ask him
something he doesn’t know.
KT: Are there any politicians, states-
people, lobbyists, etc., that you would
classify as unforgettable characters?
RK: Washington is not a good city for
unforgettable people. They’re notable,
but they’re all forgettable. Fishbait
Miller was very forgettable.
KT: He was the bellringer or doorman in
the House or something, right?
RK: See?
RK: I could describe one, but I was not
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Folio, December 1975
SUNDAY, JANUARY
4th
5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE
NIGHT BEFORE
Live radio with Gary Fried.
8:00 NEWS
A rebroadcast of last night’s News.
8:30 HERE OF A SUNDAY
MORNING
Music presented by Chris Whent.
11:00 IN THE SPIRIT
Varieties of religious experience.
Produced by Lex Hixon.
12:30 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:35 A special program produced too
late for listing here. For more
information, listen to Program
Announcements or call
Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818.
4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME
Bulletin! Neo-luddite rebel
government in Phoenix turns entire
state over to Native American
peoples. News black-out ends — more
ore to follow. Live radio with Maree
Adler.
6:00 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
MISCELLANY
6:30 NEWS
With Abraham Aig.
7:15 AEC/ALTERNATE ENERGY
COMMITTEE
8:15 MISCELLANY
8:30 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC
Produced by Tom Whitmore.
9:30 A program of special interest.
For details, listen to Program
Announcements, or call
Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818.
11:00 ECHOES FROM TARA
The lyric and music of Celtic Peoples.
Presented by Bill Monaghan.
11:55 PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE
Live radio with Bob Fass.
Continued from page 3
San Francisco poet Jack Spicer. On
this program he reads his book, Lan-
guage. Produced by Mark Weiss with
Susan Howe.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER I4th
1:00 PM FREEDOM AT
MIDNIGHT
A look at India’s independence with
Dominique La Pierre, co-author of ©
Freedom At Midnight. Included in the
program are interviews with Ghandi’s
assassins and with colonial India’s last
Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten, and
passages from the book Fr eedom At
Midnight. Produced by Richard Har-
ris.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12th
7:30 PM TENNESSEE WILLIAMS:
PAST AND PRESENT
A retrospective evening with Ameri-
ca’s most distinguished living play-
wright. Reading from his recently
published and most revealing
Memoirs, his poetry and short stories, -
Mr. Williams discusses his artistic and
personal goals, as well as his plans for
the future.
Also, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel,
produced by Rick Harris and Charles
Ruas, with technical assistance from
Bill Kortum.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19th
7:30 PM RETROSPECTIVE ON
VIOLET LANG
Poet, playwright and founder of the
Poet’s Theater of Boston, Violet
“Bunny” Lang was a remarkable
woman whose legend lives on. Poets
John Ashberry, Gregory Corso, John
Hollander, James Merrill, Richard
Wilbur, as well as artist Edward
Gorey, reminisce about Bunny Lang
and read from her poetry. Alison Lurie
reads from her memorial to Ms. Lang
which introduces the recently pub-
lished V.R. Lang Poems & Plays.
(Random House). Asa special addition
to the evening, one of Ms. Lang’s one
act plays, J Too Lived in Arcadia, will
be performed by Ruth Ford, Marian
Seldes, and Earl Hyman. Produced by
Charles Ruas and Rick Harris.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21st
2-4:00 PM FINE AND DANDY:
The Music of Kay Swift
She wrote hit songs, was a friend and
confidante of the Gershwins, ran away
to a ranch in Oregon with a rodeo cow-
boy. Stay tuned for more adventures
with Kay Swift. Produced by Judith
Sherman.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 29th
9:30 AM — 2:00 PM
The Laughing Cavalier
presents — A TRIBUTE TO
DON PABLO
Mr. and Mrs.
Mieczyslav Morszowski, and H.L.
Kirk, author of Pablo Casals: A Biog-
raphy, reminisce with the Laughing
Cavalier about Pablo Casals-cellist,
conductor, and human being. In addi-
tion, Mr. Morszowski will play the first
broadcast performance of one of Maes-
tro Casals’ piano pieces and the Laugh-
ing Cavalier will present the world
broadcast premiere of an unissued re-
cord made by Casals in 1915.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 29th
_ 8:30 PM THE MYSTICAL MUSIC _
OF ALAN HOVHANESS “is
Reknowned Composer Alan’ ESS. IV.L
ness talks about and shares records of
his music. Jim Theobold listens fasci-
nated.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30th
7:30 PM ETHNI-CITY AND THE
AMERICAN DREAM
We will begin a new series at the end of
this month focusing on the ethnic ex-
perience in New York City’s social his-
tory. The series will continue. in
January and February of 1976. We will
be recording New York City history
from the memories of elderly immi-
grants and young immigrants today.
The first program on December 30th
will include interviews with people in-
volved in ethnic studies and organiza-
tions. The purpose of this series is to
examine what has been lost from
ethnic cultures in the American ex-
perience, what has been preserved,
what has been transformed and what
political meaning these cultural phe-
nomenon and processes have. Produ-
cer: Gail Pellet
THURSDAY, JANUARY Ist
7:00 AM MOZART DAY
Further Adventures with
Wolfgang Amadeus
Theodore
Gottlieb Mozart
child star and master of note. :
Produced by Larry Josephson and
Judith Sherman.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2nd
7:30 PM THE SWEETEST
SOUNDS.
Richard Rodgers’ career in the musical
theater has spanned more than the last
55 years over the course of which he
sustained two of the longest and the
most successful partnerships the thea-
ter has known. First with Lorenzo
Hart, he wrote such innovative shows
as On Your Toes (which contained the
(Unaudited)
I. OPERATING BUDGET
1. Income
Subscriptions $ 93,482.
Renewals 215,217.
Donations _ 216,407.
Total Listener-Sponsorship $525, 106. $525, 106.
Direct Mail (net)? ( 897.)
Community Service Events t
Free Music Store (net) 2,688.
Crafts Fair (net) 14,805.
Community Center Events (net) 1,905.
Other 237.
Net Community Service Events $ 19,635. $ 19,635.
Other Revenue ; 6,747.
TOTAL OPERATING REVENUE: CASH 550,592.
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSE:
ACCRUED (see breakdown) (575,259.)
OPERATING LOSS: ACCRUED $( 24,667.)
II. GRANT-FUNDED PROJECTS BUDGETS —
Eugene Istomin,
Ill. CAPITAL BUDGET
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Pacifica Foundation—Station WBAI
Statement of Income and Expense
For the period ending September 30, 1975
Projects funded by grants are deliberately kept outside the station’s operating budget in orde r
we not become dependent on the extra income (which, at project’s end, approximately eq
extra expense). Cash for these projects is kept separate from the station’s operating | a
Expended . Forv
Income
FY 74-755 FY 74-75
CPB? Base Grant (for the Folio, in part) $ 9,350.3 ($1,782.)
CPB? Incentive Grant (for Promotion
Direct Mail) 10,000.3 ( 2,159.)
NEA? Grant (for the program “Mag Time,
the Little Magazine of the Air”) 10,000. ( 10,815.)
$29,350. ( 14,756.)4
Like most not-for-profit organizations, Pacifica does not amortize capital expenditures, since it is d
not subject to corporate income taxes. Capital accounts are, like grant-funded projects, kept sep-
arate from operating accounts on the theory that capital expenses are non-recurring.
Unfortunately, we cannot afford to establish a sinking fund for the eventual replacement of our
capital equipment nen) it eventually wears out. : A
Capital Income
Capital Expense
Excess of Capital expense over reverie”
(added to net-worth) _ ay
ONG iia Rnb
Asmall percentage of WBAI’s income is Aailagiot to retiring th ipal BAI’s shar
Pacifica National Debentures. Interest on these certificates is charged to Operate Eepenncs.
WBAI’s share of the proceeds of these debentures was used to retire presen | short term debts
then existing.
Percent of’
Operating,
Income
Original Principal Balance
(FY 72-73) $ 43,000.
Beginning Principal Balance
(FY 74-75) 36,588. 36,588.
Debt retirement FY 74-75 . aa
(Principal) ( 8,616.) 1.5 %
Remaining Principal Balance $ 27,972. $27,972. ‘
Continued from page 2 December is also the month of |
interest payment; and $10,600 in deben-
ture principal and interest payment).
Not to mention all of the other bills,
salaries, and taxes that are due and
overdue.
We depend on the Crafts Fair to net at
least $15,000. to the station to catch up
on salaries and other pressing bills. So
please come to the Crafts Fair on
December 13 and 14, and December 20
and 21, at Ferris Booth Hall, Columbia
University, Broadway at 115th Street.
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musical theater’s first ballet sequ-
ence), Pal Joey (in which, for the first
time a musical character was less than |
goody-two-shoes), By Jupiter, A
Connecticut Yankee, and many
others.
With Oscar Hammerstein, Rodgers
further innovated the theater with Ok-
tahoma (the first musical to integrate
the music, songs, dnace, and other as-
pects ef production into a special unit-
all of its own), South Pacific, The King
and I, and so many others we have
grown to know and love. After Ham-.
merstein’s death Rodgers continues to
write for the theater with his current
colaborator, Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler
_ Ira Weitzman and Bruce Kenyon. _
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aggravating)—a subscription to WBAI.
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11 issues of the Folio to a friend or
enemy. And it’s tax-deductible to the.
giver. Why give it to Uncle Jerry when ; i|
you can give it to WBAI instead? He’ll |
only give it to Lockheed or some other
country. Nene
Larry Josephson ‘|
General Manager
on the Roof), he is writing a musical |
based on the life of one of the Henry’s
of England to be produced this Spring. |
In all this time, Richard Rodgers’
music has that spark of originality, the _
glimmer of musical optimism and |
freshness that has been the mark of
the American Musical Theater. To-
night, in the tribute to Richard Rod-
gers, we will present along with tons of
music, interviews with friends, rela-
tives, associates and the man himself,
readings from his autobiography Mus- |
ical Stages, a radio broadcast of Rod-
gers and Hart with Andre Kostelanetz
from 1939 and lots more. Produced by
” Per fe ie His =
meee ee s be my 2 a
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(or, where the money goes) of Total
Operating
1. People Expense Here’s my contribution to the Minithon.
___— Salaries $ 201,445. . is a donation of $.......
_ Payroll Taxes 20,145. C) Enclosed is
____ Health & Disability Plans 13,315. :
Consultant Fees 13.259. QO) I am a current subscriber to WBAI.
; Total People 248,164. 248,164. 43.14 %
2 end me a subscription to WBAI.
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Wire Services 15,968. CL) Regular one year ($30)
‘ Telephone Equipment & Lines 12,329.
_____ Tower Rent? 33,732. O Student one year ($18)
: Pacifica Foundation Lev yo 25,992.
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Property Taxes 24,000.
4 Other Taxes & Licenses 324. () Student half year ($9)
Legal & Audit 12,817.
Church Mortgage Interest Pee ene U,0Ge, L) Friend of Free Radio
Church Mortage Amortization 8,508.
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Lease Payments & Rental on equipment 5,609.
anes pou (1) Sustaining Member A
Total Fixed Expense 201,472. - 201,472. 35.02 %
Bile. = , LC) $60 a year CL] $5 a month
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_ Technical Maintenance 184.
Technical Parts & Supplies 5,657. O) New subscription (fill in below):
ee eserpiaons to Periodicals 222.
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elephone Local & Long Distance Calls 25,828. C) Gift subscription (fill in below)
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