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JULIUS LESTER’S
SEARCH FOR
THE NEW LAND
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WBAI TENTH ANNIVERSARY FOLIO
ARTICLES BY:
Eric Bentley, Ruby Dee, Nat Hentoff, Thomas Hoving,
Rollo May, Eric Salzman, Harold Taylor
ART BY:
Thomas Allen, Seymour Chwast, Alexander Dobkin, Adolph Gottlieb, Red Grooms,
Chaim Gross, Jacob Landau, Stefan Martin, Robert Andrew Parker,
Gregorio Prestopino, Ed Renfro, Ed Sorel, Moses Soyer
OUR SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Nathan Rabin of Fine Art Photography; Seymour Chwast of Pushpin Studios;
Melinda Wentzell and to the following artists whose work could not appear because
of space limitations: Richard Avedon, Alexander Calder, Robert Mueller, Herbert
Steinberg
FEBRUARY GOALS:
At the beginning of the Pacifica Foundation, founder Lewis Hill wrote, “There
is no precedent in radio economics for our listener-subscription plan.” Even today,
20 years later, there are few imitators, because confidence in the intelligence and
good will of the listening public remains a monopoly of the Pacifica radio stations
among the broadcasting media.
Last month marked WBAI’s Tenth Anniversary, but this month merits greater
celebration: the inauguration of our second decade of service to the New York com-
munity. We would like to start this new decade with a clean slate by paying off the
old decade’s bills. Please help us make our goal this month of $40,000 by sending a
small additional contribution. If your renewal is due, get it to us right away. Then
sit back and listen.
FRANK A. MILLSPAUGH, JR.
General Manager, WBAI-FM
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Robert Andrew Parker
PREVERT, KOSMA, PACIFICA AND |
by Eric BENTLEY
Back in 1945, which I can well remember even if you can’t,
the GIs returned from Paris talking about Jacques Prévert.
That was how I first heard about him. Frank Jones translated
some of the poems; and later Lawrence Ferlinghetti; later still,
Teo Savory. If I say all these gifted and gallant translators failed
to satisfy my hunger for Prévert in English, it is not by way of
implying that I can translate him better. Or maybe it is; but
only in the sense that he is better translated when sung, and I
sing him. But in this translation process I use, there is a third
party to credit: Joseph Kosma.
Do you recall the movie Children of Paradise? You must:
it is unforgettable. But nine moviegoers out of ten remember
Jean Louis Barrault, and the tenth remembers Pierre Brasseur,
or possibly Arletty as Garance. No one remembers that the
screen play is by Jacques Prévert, much less that the score is
by Joseph Kosma. Or most of the score; it seems there were
other composers on the lot. Perhaps there was a squeeze on
Kosma, though Prévert has said he was the only composer that
he, the author, worked with on the film. One of their best songs
—Prévert’s and Kosma’s—was squeezed right out of the film.
It is in the published screenplay. (Published in English now
too, by Simon and Schuster, but not under the names Prévert
and Kosma, nor yet those of Barrault, Brasseur and Arletty.
“A film by Marcel Carné,” the title page reads.) The song I’m
telling you about is called “Et puis aprés?” It expounds the
philosophy of a prostitute, Garance: Arletty. It seemed terribly
French still, even in English, when we tried it out for our DMZ
Cabaret a couple of years ago. Remote. World of Maurice
Chevalier. Of Toulouse Lautrec, almost. So, I re-did the lyric.
For us, for New York, for the late Sixties. It’s the title song of
my new album: THE QUEEN OF 42nd STREET.
I’m not pretending I myself don’t have a past. Over half a
century of it, actually. Prévert is seventy. At any rate, he will
be by the time this album is around. He was born in 1900, and
the album is by way of a celebration of his 70th birthday.
Joseph Kosma, alas, is no longer with us all. I was happily
_ Jacob Landa
corresponding with him about the album, when suddenly he HAPPY TENTH ANNIVERSARY
was not answering, and someone sent me his obituary in Le
Monde. An album which was to be the poet’s birthday celebra-
tion turns out to be the composer’s memorial. I won’t say it’s a Margot Adler
worthy one; but it is certainly heartfelt. Like Prévert, Kosma
had a very great talent in a line of business where the talents in Brahua plber
general are very small. Rise Albert
Prévert has a long poem about Vietnam that is still all too Elly Alboim
topical: it came out nearly twenty years ago. But he, thank God,
is very much alive, and on the occasion of the student revolt, Nancy Allen
wrote a poem about the Prefect of Police (who had praised his Rose Mary Anderson
men for their extraordinary sang froid) : Frank Baez
Comment ne pas le croire?
Sans cet extraordinaire sang froid, le sang aurait Robbie Barish
coulé et on aurait vu, comme le dit plus loin Toha Base
le préfet, “des choses comme on n’en a encore
jamais vu a Paris...” Steve Bookshester
Sans cet extraordinaire sang froid, on aurait vu le sang Frank Coffee
couler IC
Le sang rouge et chaud, le sang vivant, le sang nouveau ie mn
versé sur la chaussée. Kathy Dobkin
La chausée dechausée et les pavés danser. Bob Fass
If you had to skip the French, you'll be relieved to know
my album presents Prévert in English, except for the two tiny NIRS MLSE
Paul Fischer
lyrics which your high school French should take care of.
Speaking of age and birth and death and celebrations and
memorials, what about WBAI? Who ever thought it would
come of age? That it would have a past, stretching back, way
back into the dark corridors of time? Well, it has. It is a thing
of the Sixties, which are gone. Hail and farewell, dear, hateful
Nineteen-Sixties! And happy Seventies to, no, not a hateful,
but sometimes slightly irritating, yet always very dear WBAI.
Paul Gorman
Robert Hinton
Milton Hoffman
Larry Josephson
Dan Kavanaugh
eal
TO WBAI FROM IT
Bob Kuttner
Julius Lester
Nick Levinson
Kay Lindsey
Molly McDevitt
Frank Millspaugh
Herb Perten
Charles Pitts
Steve Post
Charles Potter
David Rapkin
Caryl Ratner
Mike Sahl
Eric Salzman
Bill Schechner
Baird Searles
Arthur Sherrod
Tiger
Marjorie Waxman
Tom Whitmore
Peter Zanger
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MASS SOCIETY AND THE HUMAN
SCALE
by Harotp TAYLor
Chairman of the Board of Directors, WBAI
As the post-industrial society rolls on and CBS buys the
Yankees while baseball players buy restaurants, anything non-
conglomerate, non-commercial and fundamentally humane gets
into deeper trouble.
Yet what we all need are institutions reduced to human
scale, institutions which bring people closer together in their
common interests and help each other to meet their common
needs—schools, colleges, hospitals, radio stations, where teach-
ers know their students, doctors know their patients, broad-
casters know their listeners and enjoy their confidence and
company. What we get instead are huge institutional concen-
trations of social and economic power whose existence and
success depends on their becoming more and more impersonal
and on their capacity to promote their own institutional inter-
ests instead of the interests of the people they serve. We could
get to the point where Con Edison owns everything—the sub-
ways, Macy’s, CBS, the streets, the houses, the Mayor, the
police, WBAI, everything.
I thought a lot about this during Mr. Agnew’s attacks on
the news broadcasters, after first thinking about the way in
which the honor of the Presidency had been lowered by the
President’s guile in reaching for the Wallace vote. For a while
I wished that the Pacifica Foundation were bigger and that it
owned fifty television stations and forty-seven newspapers so
that we could turn loose a powerful flow of information to in-
form the public about the meaning of it all. The trouble is that
if we were that big we would not be able to do what has to be
done.
What has to be done is very simple—it is to build a com-
munity of concerned persons who trust each other and who
care so much for the truth that they are willing to put their
time, energy and minds to work in the constant search for get-
ting it. For the past ten years at WBAI we have been building
that community, by telling as much of the truth as we can get
our hands on, by allowing every point of view in politics, the
arts and world culture a chance for free expression. That
means giving the arts and the artists a central place in the pro-
grams, looking for talent wherever it is, and taking a chance
that what is said, done or performed will add something im-
portant to the total flow of ideas and experiences which make
up the American intellectual and cultural environment.
We do in fact have an institution reduced to human scale,
where the listeners and the broadcasters do know each other,
where the controversies of contemporary life can find an arena
for full debate. In the next ten years we have our work cut out
for us, since it is clear that the controversies are going to be-
come more intense as each year goes by and the United States
tries to find a democratic way through a social revolution in
which we are involved on a world scale. There will be the usual
efforts to keep us quiet and orderly, the usual threats to our
broadcasting policies, the usual trials and errors by which an
enterprise like ours makes what progress it can.
At the risk of contradicting myself I therefore argue that
what we must now do is to concentrate on making our small
community into a big one. But it is not to be a conglomerate
except in the variety of the persons and ideas which go to make
it up. In the long run, our business is with expanding the com-
munity of concerned persons, and we will know we have suc-
ceeded with WBAI when there are enough of us in that com-
munity to raise the level of the quality of life in the community
at large.
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WBAI
THE FREEDOM TO KNOW
by THOMAS HovING
Chairman, Citizens Committee for Broadcasting
The First Amendment — the “freedom to know’—is a
sacred article of faith among commercial broadcasters these
days. Since Vice President Agnew’s attack on the broadcast
press, the networks have defended the Bill of Rights, taking on
the unaccustomed role of champions of the public’s right to be
informed. What they do give in terms of news and information
is good; in fact, it unquestionably is the best that their schedules
have to offer, but it is not enough.
With a superb public relations sense, the networks have
made it seem as if, day and night, they were addressing them-
selves selflessly to the great issues that confront this nation.
What we get are news strips, all too ample space coverage, oc-
casional preemptions for presidential press conferences and
speeches (followed by rather guarded analyses by network cor-
respondents), and a rare documentary, usually on some aspect
of ecology or animal life. This at a time when the majority of
Americans reportedly depend on television for most of their
information on what is going on in the world.
In 1922, Walter Lippmann was writing about the damage
to a democracy of an uninformed public. In his book Public
Opinion, Lippmann wrote: “It is because they (a self-govern-
ing people) are compeiled to act without a reliable picture of
the world, that governments, schools, newspapers and churches
make such small headway against the more obvious failings of
a democracy, against violent prejudice, apathy, preference for
the curious trivial as against the dull important, and the hunger
for sideshows and three legged calves.”
The networks, in terms of what they could be doing, have
copped out as an information medium. Rich beyond the dreams
of avarice, they look upon their news operations as an expen-
sive nuisance. The Vice President’s blast with its not-so-veiled
threat of pulling station licenses hit the broadcasting industry
where it lives—in the money bags. That, not some lofty adher-
ence to freedom of the press, is what so engaged and enraged
the broadcasting establishment. Fat and sleek, they exist for
the sake of advertising, certainly not for the public good. Movy-
ing goods is important to the life of our nation, but not as im-
portant as the life of our nation itself.
WBAI exists to serve those whose needs are not met by the
mass media— and that could include millions all over the
country if there were more WBAIs. WBAI sees no virtue in
poverty: in a three-year effort, WBAI has grown from 8,000
subscribers and a budget of $250,000 to 20,000 subscribers
and an operating budget of almost half a million. Its listener-
support comes from white, college-educated, middle-aged lib-
eral sorts, and from the non-white, the young and the poor.
Its service is predicated on the fact that although peace of
mind can be achieved by talking with like-minded people, the
most pressing need of an open society is, in the words of a
Supreme Court decision, “the widest possible dissemination of
information from diverse and antagonist sources...”
To that end it has put on Young Americans for Freedom
and Students for a Democratic Society (back-to-back), Social-
ists, Communists and Conservatives, black radicals like Mal-
colm X and H. Rap Brown before it became accepted practice,
music by unknown young composers, and folk, jazz and rock
groups before they became famous. Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan,
Judy Collins, Jose Feliciano, and many others got their start,
or very near to it, over WBAI.
But WBA\i’s greatest service to the public is live coverage
of an event. It had continued live coverage from Washington
' from Thursday through Sunday during November’s massive
peace demonstration. No network considered this worthy of
live coverage (although The New Yorker estimated that there
were from half to a million people there), as did no local Wash-
ington television station. One is left to wonder at their “news
judgment.” WBAI gave complete coverage of the October
Moratorium, and was outstanding during the Democratic con-
vention in Chicago last year and during the student demonstra-
tions at Columbia University. As WBAI’s Program Director,
Bob Kuttner, with slight tongue in cheek, has said, “We're
brilliant in crises, but we can’t depend solely on them to stimu-
late good programming. Even in New York, they don’t happen
quite often enough to be our mainstay.”
In its articles of incorporation, WBAI stated that it proposed
to broadcast information on causes of conflict between nations,
races, creeds and colors, to study political and economic prob-
lems, and to gather varied sources of news not generally avail-
able to the public to promote the widest possible dissemination
_of information on matters vitally affecting the community. In
pursuing its goal, WBAI has come in for heavy criticism from
Congress and the broadcasting establishment. Broadcasting
magazine has said that WBAI is “more an electronic soapbox
than an organ of broadcast journalism.” But with so many
people with differing views locked out of our present system
of broadcasting, it seems essential that we have more “soap-
boxes” in order to turther understanding. This is what com-
munications is all about, and what so few broadcasters seem
to realize is their necessary function.
In renewing WBAI’s license in 1964, the FCC stated: “We
recognize that... provocative programming as here involved
may offend some listeners. But this does not mean that those
offended have the right, through the Commission’s licensing
power, to rule such programming off the airwaves. Were this
the case, only the wholly inoffensive, the bland, could gain
access to the radio microphone or TV camera.”
And in a landmark decision in June 1969, the United States
Supreme Court in upholding the FCC’s “fairness doctrine”
made it clear that the First Amendment right of free speech
and free press applied not only to the broadcast medium but
to the public. The Court ruled: “It is the purpose of the First
Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas .
in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to counten-
ance monopolization of that market whether it be by the Goy-
ernment itself or a private licensee... It is the right of the
public to receive suitable access to social, political, esthetic,
moral and other ideas and experiences which is crucial here.
That right may not be constitutionally abridged either by Con-
gress or by the FCC.”
I end on a personal note. Robert Goodman, who was Presi-
dent of the Pacifica Foundation and of WBAI, also gave his
invaluable services to the National Citizens Committee for
Broadcasting as a member of our Board of Trustees. In a loving
tribute at the time of his death last year, the WBAI manage-
ment noted his total dedication to social justice and freedom of
speech. “We can do no better than to measure the Foundation
and the stations against his standards, his aspirations, his
humanity and his integrity” it said. The obituary ended with
the words, “And to Bob Goodman, Peace.” And to WBAI,
keep those standards flying.
WBAI
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NAT HENTOFF ON WBAI
What I hope WBAI will be in the next ten years is first a
continuation of what it is now—one of the very few-nearly
total exemplars on radio of what freedom of expression is ail
about. Beyond that, I think WBAI might do more investigative
reporting—making news.
And it can be an even more valuable conduit of feeling as
well as information between those who are surely going to be
increasingly under siege in the time of John Mitchell. What
I mean, among other things, is the kind and quality of multi-
dimensional radio which characterized the coverage of the
November 15 day in Washington—a mixing of means and an
intercutting of time that made the experience palpable and
thereby reinforced its reality as the regular press, radio and
television were already blurring what had happened and what
it portended.
People working for fundamental change are going to need
warmth as well as light in the years immediately ahead, and
WBAI can be a source of both. It is already, but what I am
suggesting is even more venturesomeness in the dynamics of
individual programs, and even more candor and spontaneity
in their content.
In sum, keep on keeping on, but stronger.
Thomas Allen
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WBAI
DR. ROLLO MAY ON WBAITI
Our country’s electronic mass communications industry
should be a matter of serious concern to us all. At present, not
only does it reinforce “the way things are” in our society, it
reinforces the passivity of the audience. It distorts reality simply
by sugar-coating everything, covering over all the real prob-
lems of social change.
One of the more indirect but great dangers of mass com-
munications is that it increases the loneliness of modern man.
The more mass communications burgeons, the more lonely are
the people who comprise the audience. There is no contradiction
in this. Millions of Americans are visited in their living rooms—
through radio and television—by the most powerful men in
the world, politicians, statesmen, and celebrities. The net effect
is to emphasize the estrangement of the average person from
those who move his world. “They all ‘know’ me and can speak
to me at will, but whom do I know and to whom can I speak?”
This conflict between apparent intimacy and actual distance
is experienced as a profund alienation, one approaching a
schizoid condition. Mass communications induces this effect
to a varying degree in almost everybody. It is certainly no ac-
cident that the Kennedys were assassinated by persons who
radically represent the individual in isolation, the schizoid
attitude exacerbated by mass communications. And it is in
terms of this effect that the industry’s contribution to a national
atmosphere of violence should be examined.
Now the question is, what is wrong? Is mass communications
in itself wrong? Obviously not. Furthermore, it is here to stay.
However, it is necessary to save mass communications from
itself by creating alternatives within the mass communications
framework which serve to deepen and enlarge the national
consciousness.
This is the function of Pacifica radio, and it is a tremen-
dously important function. Pacifica does not sugar-coat reality.
It tries to meet the issues directly. It makes available not just
the things that will please people but those that are going to
stimulate them to think, those that are going to be personally
and socially enlarging.
In Pacifica, communication is a genuine and related phe-
nomenon. It brings reality to the listener and the listener to
reality. As such, Pacifica serves as a corrective to the other
media representatives and thus has a value which transcends
the mere numbers of its immediate listeners.
WBAI
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1
MUSIC FORUM The first program
from the series that began in 1962.
Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter and
Felix Greissle discuss the life and
times of the pioneer International
Society for Contemporary Music with
music director Eric Salzman. (WBAI
1962 Archives)
THE SCIENCE OF MADNESS First
of 2 Symposia from the Esalen Inst.
Julian Silverman, Stanislav Grof and
Alan Watts are the main speakers.
(From WBAI’s 1969 Archives)
FREE MUSIC STORE A Renais-
sance/Baroque Christmas, directed by
Joshua Rifkin, from the 1968-69 Fre2
Music Store season.
ST. PHILOMENA: A Nightmare in
Nirvana An interview with “Big
Head,” who now uses the name “St.
Philomena.” This program probes
deeper into his interest in pubescent
girls, psychedelics, poetry and religion.
Recorded and produced in 1963 by
Randolph Hayden Wicker, whom we
thank for supplying us with the tape
for rebroadcast in anniversary-archive
month.
99.5 RADIO THEATRE: The Bobbity
Ba Letters From the 1968 Archives,
a dramatic reading of thoroughly un-
likely correspondence between Eliza-
beth Barrett and Sir Robert Peel during
their equally unlikely heated affair.
Written by Patrick Ryan for Punch.
Randa Haines and Mike Hodel play
the lovers.
THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA #1 First
of a two-part documentary produced
from recordings made in Mississippi in
August, 1963. This program deals with
the texture and conditions of life—
economic, social and political—in the
realm of King Cotton and the heart-
land of segregation. Included are
voices of Negro farmers, sharecrop-
pers and day laborers. Also heard are
the editors of two Delta newspapers,
the mayor of Greenwood, Miss., re-
created interviews with the head of the
Nat'l White Citizens’ Council and the
President of the Greenwood Bank of
Commerce. Recorded, written and
produced by Dale Minor. (From
WBAI’s 1963 Archives)
THE AGE OF THE TALKING MA-
CHINE Songs of the Age of Victoria,
produced by Byron Bryant. (From
WBAI’s 1962 Archives)
THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA #2 This
portion of the documentary deals with
conditions of life in the Delta, past
and present. An examination of the
impact of “the Movement” on this
cotton society; its economics, politics,
and the traditional relationships be-
tween its two major races, as the black
drive for equality and integration and
the white reaction in defense of the
status quo draw the lines of battle.
(From WBAI’s 1963 Archives)
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COUNTRY MUSIC Produced by
Tom Whitmore, WBAI’s Chief Engi-
neer of now and yore.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
MEMORIAL FOR MALCOLM X
Recorded and produced by Ken Wibe-
can, this Memorial for Malcolm X
contains the remarks of many black
American leaders who respected him.
(From WBAI’s 1965 Archives)
THE CRITICAL PEOPLE review the
various arts. A Current Program.
ONE ORDINARY DAY WITH PEA-
NUTS Recording of a demonstration
education work-shop with gifted chil-
dren at Columbia Univ. Teachers
College, with Mildred Parsons. (From
WBAI’s 1962 Archives)
MUSIC FORUM Edgard Varese, long
considered an “experimental,” sus-
picious and best ignored “modernist,”
is finally (as of 1962 anyway!) getting
his due as one of the outstanding
composer-pioneers of this century.
Varese here talks with Eric Salzman
about his life and his music and a
lot of the latter will be played by way
of illustration. (From WBAI’s 1962
Archives)
THE ACTOR’S WORKSHOP PRE-
SENTS: The Stalingrad Elegies A con-
cert reading of James Schevill’s work
based on letters from troops of Hitler’s
6th division facing certain death on
the Stalingrad front. (From WBAI’s
1965 Archives)
THE OUTSIDE Steve Post stuck a
feather in his cap and called it Mac-
aroni. Isn’t that dumb?
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2
IN THE BEGINNING with Larry
Josephson, who plays “I’m Inclined to
Knock Musik” by Mozart.
MISCELLANY
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #1 The
Gregorian Chant and its antecedents.
Alan Rich, former music director of
KPFA and WBAI and _ currently
music critic for New York magazine,
explores the history of musical ex-
pression from the days of early church
down to the present. (From KPFA’s
1968 Archives)
GOLDEN VOICES The late Anthony
Boucher with recordings of John
McCormick. (From KPFA’s Archives)
DANTE AND THE INFERNO John
Ciardi reads from his translation of
the poem. (From the 1962 Archives)
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PLES The late Dr. Henry Cowell with
music of Tibet, India, Iceland and
Ireland. (From WBAI’s 1960 Archives)
CUBA, THE UNITED STATES,
AND THE CRISIS OF LATIN
AMERICA A documentary on the
impact of the Cuban Revolution on
Latin America and the U.S., prepared
from the voices of many of the partici-
pants. Included are Fidel Castro, Ratl
Roa, José Figueres, James Wadsworth,
and Adlai Stevenson. (From WBATI
1962 Archives)
MISCELLANY
THE THEME OF THE JOSEPH
NOVELS Beginning on November 17,
1942 and continuing through late
1943, Nobel-prize-winning novelist
Thomas Mann lectured at the Library
of Congress at the behest of the
United States government. On several
occasions, he was introduced by then
Vice President Henry Wallace. They
are a remarkable series of lectures,
summing up in large measure the
morality and belief of the pre-war
generation, the impact of the war, and
mankind’s hopes for the future. They
are also more modestly a major state-
ment by a major European artist. We
broadcast them through the special
permission of the Library of Congress
which made the tapes available to the
Pacifica Foundation.
PYP Richard Schiffman presents The
Real Story.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN EVO-
LUTION from Gunther Schuller’s epic
series that began sometime around the
year XXV and will probably outlive
us all.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast by Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: an in-depth look at a local
issue or event.
CAVEAT EMPTOR from the Wash-
ington Bureau.
COMMENTARY by Conrad Lynn.
ECONOMIC PROSPECTS FOR
1970: Unemployment, Inflation or
Both? Victor Perlo in a live, 45-
minute commentary, in which he will
also answer questions from listeners
who phone him on OX 7-8506.
ANGELA LANSBURY READS
JAMES LEO HERLIHY’S “Laughs,
Etc.” The noted actress reads this raw
and funny story about a skirmish in
the war between the generations in
today’s East Village. (From WBAI’s
1968 Archives)
MUSIC FROM BIRMINGHAM
CHURCHES The Birmingham Music
Choir, recorded in Birmingham, Ala-
bama in July of 1963. (From WBAI’s
1963 Archives)
MAN’S IDENTITY IN A MASS
SOCIETY Bruno Bettelheim talks
about alienation, man’s identity, the
longing for a past “Golden Age,” and
our mass society. Recorded and made
available by the Univ. of Chicago.
(From WBAI’s 1963 Archives)
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10:45 WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/3)
11:00 STUDIO RECITAL A program of
contemporary music for unaccom-
panied violin, performed by the young
American violinist Paul Zukofsky.
HINDEMITH Sonata, Op. 31, No. 1
(1924); JONES Chorale Prelude
(1956); STRAVINSKY Elegie (1944);
YSAYE Sonata, Op. 27, No. 4 (1924);
KLEBE Sonata No. 2, Op. 20 (1955);
CAGE 2’ 35.669” for a String Player
(1955); RIFKIN Division No. 2;
Winter Piece (1961); MURPHY
Phantasie (1961); HONEGGER So-
nata (1941) (From WBAI’s 1962
Archives)
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE A Fass
Gass.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3
7:00 IN THE BEGINNING with Larry
Josephson who has been described as
“the prize in the bottom of a cracker-
jack box.”
9:00 WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and NEWS (2/2)
9:15 HISTORY OF MUSIC #2 Alan Rich
continues this series with Medieval
Polyphony (From KPFA’s 1968 Ar-
chives)
10:15 GOLDEN VOICES The late An-
thony Boucher presents the voice of
Marcella Sembrich. (KPFA’s Ar-
chives)
10:45 MEMORIES OF FORD MADDOX
FORD A documentary with Matthew
Josephson, Alan Tate, Louise Bogan,
Nathan Asch, Robie McCauley and
others. (From WBAI’s 1961 Archives)
11:45 MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES The late Dr. Henry Cowell with
music from Georgia (USSR), Bali, the
United States and Greece (From
WBAI’s 1960 Archives)
12:15 MISCELLANY
12:30 LUNCHPAIL Paul Gorman chews
and eschews the issues and news.
2:00 THE WAR AND THE FUTURE
Second in a series of five lectures by
Thomas Mann.
3:30 PYP: We dip into the Archives to
present The Gold Fox, by Jeri An-
drzejewski, read by the ever-sly Gor-
don Spencer.
4:30 CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN EV-
OLUTION Gunther Schuller’s famous
series, from the archives.
6:00 MISCELLANY
6:15 NEWS
Newscast by Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: coverage of the day’s events
in NYC.
7:10 REPORT TO THE LISTENER Frank
Millspaugh tells you what it’s like to
be station manager.
7:30 REVENGE
8:00 WHATEVER BECAME OF ... THE
SHADOW? One of Richard Lam-
parski’s favorite programs from his
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many years on WBAI. In this one, he
speaks with Lamont Cranston and
Margo about the invisible man and
the evil that lurks in the minds of
men.
THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CUL-
TURAL REVOLUTION Julius Les-
ter with some Great Moments from
his past programs. (This oughtta be a
biggie, folks)
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/4)
BARBARA: An In-Depth Study of an
American Prostitute Meet Barbara,
“a sometime student at one of Cali-
fornia’s largest universities with an
IQ well above average, but at 19 she
isn’t the average teenager. She’s a
well-trained, highly-skilled profes-
sional; an expert in a field which
brings her approximately one-thous-
and tax-free dollars a week.” Entire
production conceived, written and.
presented by Martin Varno. (From
KPFA’s 1968 Archives)
RADIO UNNAMEABLE with Bob
Fass. A soulful melange of music and
Meaning.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4
IN THE BEGINNING Larry Jo-
sephson plays the march of dimes for
all it’s worth.
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/3)
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #3:
Medieval Polyphony, sacred and sec-
ular. Alan Rich’s series, continued.
(From KPFA’s Archives)
GOLDEN VOICES The late Anthony
Boucher with the voice of Leonard
Warren.
WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH
Documentary on the murder of the
three civil rights workers, Michael
Schwerner, James Chaney and An-
drew Goodman, prior to the discovery
of their bodies in Mississippi in 1964.
This program was produced by Dale
Minor and Chris Koch. (From WBAI’s
Archives)
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES The late Dr. Henry Cowell with
music of Spain, France, Arabia and
Brazil.
THE LAST DAYS OF HART
CRANE A “documentary montage”
with John Unterecker and others.
(From WBAI’s Archives)
MUSIC OF ALCIDES LANZA His
Exercise I for Electronic Sounds;
Strobo I for double bass, miscella-
neous percussion instruments, lights,
audience and electronic sounds; an in-
terview with Mr. Lanza and Carlos
Santos, and Piano Concerto.
WBAI
2:00 GERMANY AND THE GERMANS
Third lecture in the series of five,
given by Thomas Mann in 1942.
PYP Celebrate the joys of February in
song with Bob Cohen, our joyous
Spirit!
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN
EVOLUTION Gunther Schuller’s
now-famous series, continued. (From
the Archives)
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast by Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: Goings on here; in-depth
coverage.
JUDICIAL REVIEW from the Wash-
ington Bureau.
WOMANKIND Current news from
the feminist movement. A Rainone/
Lindsey production.
FILMS IN FOCUS Andrew Sarris be-
gins a 4-part discussion of films in the
sixties.
MUSIC FORUM Henry Cowell talks
about and plays, not music of the
world’s peoples, but music of one per-
son (himself). Mr. Cowell speaks of
50 years of creativity and musical
pioneering, with illustrations from his
own works, many of them performed
by himself (outside and inside the
piano and with the requisite fingers,
fingernails, fists or elbows). (From
WBAI’s 1962 Archives)
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN CALI-
FORNIA: 1963 A documentary pro-
duced and recorded in a single day by
Fred Haines, David Ossman, Mike
Tigar, Art Wadsworth and John
Ohliger, on the eve of the scheduled
execution of 3 men in San Quentin’s
gas chamber, and dealing with the
various aspects of the question of capi-
tal punishment. (From KPFA’s Ar-
chives.)
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/5)
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11:00 WITCH’S BLOOD Read by Fredi
Dundee.
11:30 DANCE, NEW YORK with Marian
Horosko.
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE Bob Fass
struggles with reality.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5
IN THE BEGINNING Larry tries to
be faithful to his image over the years
in keeping with Archive Month: he
comes in an hour late.
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/4)
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #4:
Early Renaissance, presented by Alan
Rich. (From KPFA’s Archives)
GOLDEN VOICES The late Anthony
Boucher presents operatic arias as
sung by Helge Roswaenge.
HUAC DOCUMENTARY A docu-
mentary on the hearings held in San
Francisco in 1960 by a subcommittee
of the House Committee on UnAmeri-
can Activities, and the attendant dis-
turbances involving a student protest.
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Alexander Dobkin
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Produced by Elsa Knight Thompson
and Dale Minor. (From KPFA’s Ar-
chives)
LUNCHPAIL Paul Gorman and
guests with talk, music, both or neither.
NIETZSCHE’S PHILOSOPHY
Fourth lecture in a series of five given
by Thomas Mann.
PYP Find the way with Watkins Rock
today!
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN
EVOLUTION Gunther Schuller’s
series cont'd.
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD
What’s going on in the city, presented
by Andy Parks.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: in-depth coverage of the day’s
events.
THE 99.5 RADIO THEATRE: Death
House Letters of Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg Selections and excerpts
from a two-year correspondence be-
tween Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as
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they awaited execution in the death
house at Sing Sing Prison. The readers
are Gerald Fritz and Lois Adler.
Narration is by Eric Nord. Directed
by Lois Adler. (From WBAI’s 1967
Archives)
OF UNICORNS AND UNIVERSES
Reviews of fantasy and science fiction
with Baird Searles and others.
READINGS FROM THE CON-
GRESSIONAL RECORD—just that.
RED BEANS, RICE AND OTHER
TOPICAL ISSUES New, unsched-
uled programs and/or music with
Neal Conan.
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/6)
THE 99.5 RADIO THEATRE: The
Dispute Over the Ownership of An-
thony Burns Documentary concerning
the famous fugitive slave case that led
Boston to riot in 1854. Written and
directed by Jon Katz. (From WBAI’s
1967 Archives)
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RADIO UNNAMEABLE Fass trips
through the tulips (thereby breaking
his leg . . . this is just so you don’t
confuse “trips” with “trips,” one be-
ing innocent, one guilty, if you know
what we mean, and if you don’t know
just forget we ever mentioned it).
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6
IN THE BEGINNING This morning,
Larry Joseph’s On.
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/5)
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #5
Secular Art of the Renaissance. Alan
Rich’s series continued. (From KPFA’s
Archives)
GOLDEN VOICES The late Anthony
Boucher’s series continues with more
music sung by Helge Roswaenge.
DEATH OF A WOMBAT An im-
pression in language and music of a
bush fire in Australia by Ivan Smith
and George English. (From WBAI’s
1960 Archives)
WBA — 10 yeas ole - Wheto. Kid!! love, 4. Lobhin
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MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES The late Henry Cowell with
music from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Phil-
ippine Islands, Mexico, and England.
SALAD DAYS A musical by Dorothy
Reynolds and Julian Slade with
Eleanor Drew and John Warner. An
Old Vic Production. (From WBAIT’s
1963 Archives)
REPORT ON MUSIC with A. B.
Spellman and Ornette Coleman. A
taped session at Coleman’s studio with
Coleman on alto sax, David Eisenson
on bass and Charlie Moffat on drums.
(From WBAI’s 1962 Archives)
GOETHE AND DEMOCRACY Fifth
and final program in the series of
lectures by Thomas Mann.
MISCELLANY
PYP Another goodie but oldie: Chap-
ter One of Tony and the Wonderful
Door by Howard Fast, published by
Random House and read by Dick Har-
rison.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN
EVOLUTION More from Gunther
Schuller’s chronological study of our
music and its recent history.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast by Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
CAPITOL NEWS SUMMARY From
the Capitol.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIAL A time
slot left open for something important
that may happen between now and
then.
THE FIRST AMENDMENT: CORE
OF OUR CONSTITUTION Alex-
ander Meikeljohn was, in a sense, the
spiritual force behind Pacifica’s com-
mitment to free speech. Dr. Meikel-
john, who took an absolute position
on the First, outlines his reasons in
this speech originally delivered to a
joint session of the United States Con-
gress. (From the KPFA Archives)
MUSIC FORUM Karlheinz Stock-
hausen talks with Eric Salzman about
his conceptions of form and how he
uses them in his compositions. This
outline of the theoretical and esthetic
ideas of a leading young German
avant-garde composer is illustrated by
excerpts from his compositions: Kon-
trapunkt, Gruppen, Gesang der
Juenglinge, Zeitmasse, Zyklus and
Carré. (From WBAI’s 1962 Archives)
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS
THE BEST OF TYWAYCHI #1 The
acronym stands for “It’s Your World
and You Can Have It”. The per-
formers are: George Coe, Sidney
Davis, Bob Schlitt, Peter Meyerson
and Nancy Wayburn. Produced by
Larry Josephson.
STUDIO CONCERT: Bach Flute
Sonatas Samuel Baron, flutist, and
Robert Conant, harpsichordist, in a
broadcast that was live in 1962 of
Bach’s Sonatas for flute and harpsi-
chord. (From the WBAI 1962 Ar-
chives)
RADIO UNNAMEABLE with Bob
Fass and a whole gang of person.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7
ECOLOGY DAY
WBAI
Man is befouling his nest. A day of special programming on environment—from
the ecology of neighborhoods to the ecology of the world island, including sounds,
music and a live broadcast teach-in over WBAI’s clean, pure air. Highlights of the
programming are listed below; the times are approximate.
CAN MAN SURVIVE? Part one of
Eric Salzman’s environmental tape
and electronic score from the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History’s
centennial Mixed-Media ‘Ecological
Exhibition.
SCIENTISTS SPEAK OUT A special
edition of this WBAI program, dealing
with issues of environment.
POLLUTION AND HEALTH Guests
to be announced.
HIGHWAYS: The Concrete Strangle
Bill Schechner’s look at highways as
an environmental menace.
THE CONSERVATION LOBBY You
can’t tell the players without a score-
card. By the Pacifica Washington
Bureau.
MURRAY BOOKCHIN The radical
ecologist, with thoughts on environ-
ment and politics.
TEACH-IN From WBAI’s Church.
CAN LIFE IN NEW YORK SUR-
VIVE? A discussion on the decreas-
ing likelihood of this proposition;
the threats to life, physical and
psychic, in the big rotting apple.
THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
The earth as one eco-system, and
what man is doing to it, produced
with the assistance of Natural His-
tory magazine.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Per-
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haps the newest branch of law;
remedies for the citizen when his
nest is befouled.
NEWS
NOISE POLLUTION Or, the deci-
bel’s disciple, produced by Bob
Kuttner.
GHETTO ECOLOGY The air in most
central cities is even more polluted
than in downtown. It can’t be bad
breath. Lead poisoning, rats, lousy
food, and the other features that make
life processes in the ghetto even more
belabored than in Bensonhurst. Pro-
duced by Kay Lindsey.
LAWNORDER All of the anti-pollu-
tion laws of the late Sixties: what has
been accomplished by them. Produced
by Steve Bookshester.
GARBAGE WBAI’s Sewer Corre-
spondent, Bill Schechner, follows egg
shells and orange peels out to sea and
considers whether New York is drown-
ing in its own waste products.
THE POLLUTERS Who are the vil-
lains? What is being done to stop
them? Produced by Bob Kuttner and
Paul Fischer.
CAN MAN SURVIVE? The second
part of Eric Salzman’s tape and elec-
tronic composition.
THE OUTSIDE Speaking of pollu-
tion, here’s Steve Post.
WBAI
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8
THE BRANDENBURG CON-
CERTOS performed by the New Am-
sterdam Chamber Ensemble, in a con-
cert taped at WBAI’s Free Music
Store.
THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR Mu-
sic for the Nagrin work by Eric Salz-
man and Archie Shepp. From the Free
Music Store.
SOUNDS OF THE SIXTIES Neal
Conan puts together pieces to intro-
duce this special day of programming.
THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME
Clark Kent used to call it a scoop, but to the working press it’s a clean beat—a
story unknown to other reporters until it breaks, or a treatment that makes every-
body else’s work look like it missed the point. Money and logistical support (things
like airplane tickets, or three other people along to help cover a many-sided event)
help a reporter get a good story, but the crucial elements continue to be brains,
humanity and endurance.
Here WBAI, although short on air-conditioned mobile units and so far unable
to instali a portable toilet for newsmen on remotes, something C.B.S. has been
known to do for Walter Cronkite, continues to compete.
Today’s programming is a selection of programs, reports, and remotes that shows
the News and Public Affairs Departments at their best—using the creative talents of
a thoughtful individual who is at the right place at the right time, when the story
is breaking. These are some of our clean beats: the best from our Archives on the
60’s most important stories.
TENT CITY A report on the intimida-
tion of black Tennesseeans who tried to
register in rural Heywood and Fayette
Counties. Produced by Byron Baer,
1962.
FREEDOM NOW! The story of
Martin Luther King’s work to integrate
Birmingham businesses and_ public
places. A classic on non-violence and
the movement. Produced by Dale
Minor, 1963.
NEWARK 23 dead, $10,200,000 in
property damage, a massive urban re-
bellion, the antithesis of non-violence.
This tape was made in the city while
the shooting continued. Reported by
Ronnie Watkins, 1967.
THE BATTLE OF DA NANG
Dale Minor’s Armstrong-award-win-
ning documentary produced from
tapes made in battle in 1966.
FROM PROTEST TO RESISTANCE
The award-winning report on the
Pentagon protest march which first
brought the war to Washington. Pro-
duced by Steve Bookshester, 1967.
CHICAGO CONVENTION A crucial
turning-point in America’s understand-
ing of what the war was doing to the
nation. The Old Politics vs. The Anti-
War Coalition. Yippies, Hippies,
Hype-ies, Democrats, Cops, etc.—the
event the Chicago Conspiracy Trial is
all about. These four hours of tapes
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(interrupted by Country Music, News,
and The Critical People) are the
nightly news reports filed from the
scene, anchored by Steve Bookshester
and Dale Minor, 1968.
COUNTRY MUSIC Out of the city
into the blue grass.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
CHICAGO, CONTINUED
THE CRITICAL PEOPLE Reviews of
the week in the arts in NYC.
CHICAGO, CONTINUED
THE MARCH ON FORT DIX The
anti-war movement confronts the mili-
tary on its home turf—the massive
training base midst the New Jersey
pinelands. Produced by Paul Fischer,
1969.
MOBILIZATION AGAINST THE
WAR A distillation of WBAI’s 27
hours of coverage during the three
days of events in Washington and New
York, November 13-15, 1969. Dr.
Spock, Pete Seeger, Dave Dellinger,
Senators McGovern and McCarthy,
Moratorium Organizers, SDS street
people, Abbie Hoffman, in fact almost
everybody but President Nixon. The
biggest Washington protest ever, re-
ported by the WBAI News and Public
Affairs Departments staff, 1969.
THE OUTSIDE Steve Post, the wrong
man at the wrong time.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9
IN THE BEGINNING Nobody
knows the trouble Larry’s seen; in fact,
nobody’s even seen Larry.
MISCELLANY
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #6 The
sacred music of the Renaissance.
GOLDEN VOICES with the late
Anthony Boucher. Pre-electric record-
ings of sopranos.
A CENTURY AFTER An impression
of Negro-white relations more than a
hundred years after the Emancipation.
Produced at BAI by Chris Koch.
(From WBAI’s 1963 Archives)
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES with the late Dr. Henry Cowell.
Music of the USSR.
CONVERSATION WITH VARDIS
FISHER A chronicler of the Far West
talks with his publisher, Alan Swallow.
(From WBAT’s 1961 Archives)
REPORT FROM MILLBROOK,
DUTCHESS COUNTY, N. Y. In
which William Haines of the Sri Ram
Ashrama, Arthur Kleps of the Neo-
American Church, and other residents
of the Hitchcock Estate, discuss the
problems of living on an estate made
famous by Timothy Leary—and the
series of arrests by Dutchess County
authorities which necessitated the
posting of $35,000 in bail. (From the
WBAIT 1968 Archives)
THE ART OF PROGRAM MAKING
KPFK Music Director William Mal-
loch lets you into the workshop to
hear how a documentary program is
built up from miles of tape. He de-
scribes the process, using raw material
from his Dvorak program to illustrate
the problems of selection and judg-
ment which confront the producer of
such a program. (From the KPFK
Archives)
PYP Kid stuff: twice monthly, news,
reviews, and occasional interviews.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN
EVOLUTION Gunther Schuller con-
tinues his long-term series.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: an in-depth look at a local
issue.
MILITARY MONITOR The Wash-
ington Bureau’s eagle eye on the
Pentagon.
COMMENTARY by Conrad Lynn.
STARS IN PRIME TIME: Steve Post,
who brings back some of his more
famous guests, e.g., Pope John XXIII
and other ecclesiastical luminaries.
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/10)
THE GOOD GUYS In December,
1969, it just so happened that many
of WBAI’s staff from the so-called
“good old days” were in town so, as
a kind of reunion-program, we
dumped all of them in the studio,
where they proceeded to rap about all
sorts of unrelated trivia. Participants
in this nostalgic hodgepodge were
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Willie Ross, Marcia Tompkins, Dick
Elman, Chris Koch, Bob Potts,
Randolph Hayden Wicker and the
very contemporary Eric Salzman and
Bob Kuttner. Strictly for listeners of
long-standing.
STOLEN TAPE, taken in 1962ish by
Kathy Dobkin and rebroadcast here
for no reason other than it brings
nostalgic memories to some of our
staff, and maybe listeners too.
RADIO UNNAMEABLE Bob Fass,
today in competition with three hours
of Steve Post.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
IN THE BEGINNING Anyone who’d
subject himself to the New York
Central is crazy; yeah, that’s our
Larry.
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/9)
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #7 17th-
century opera.
GOLDEN VOICES with the late An-
thony Boucher. Giovanni Martinelli’s
voice.
THE MORAL AND POLITICAL
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STU-
DENTS’ NON-VIOLENT PROTEST
A talk by Lillian Smith. (From WBAI
1960 Archives)
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES Dr. Henry Cowell with Jewish,
Australian, Chilean, Finnish, and
Argentinian music.
MISCELLANY
LUNCHPAIL Paul Gorman’s guests
and other goodies.
WHAT YOU WOULD HEAR ON
THE RADIO IN RURAL AMERICA
A fascinating cross-section of what
rural America listens to on the radio,
with examples of the religious, patri-
otic, and all the fare and music offered
daily to rural and small-town popula-
tions. Produced by Carlos Hagen.
(From the Archives)
MISCELLANY
PYP Voices from the past: Mr. Gree-
zel and the Tundlezeen, written and
read by Gershon Friedlin. PLUS
poems about animals, read by Diane
Wakoski.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN
EVOLUTION A continuation of the
Gunther Schuller series.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: an in-depth look at a local
issue.
REPORT TO THE LISTENER by
Station Manager Frank Millspaugh.
THE. BEST OF ITYWAYCHI #2 A
Lawrence Norman Josephson produc-
tion.
SOME UNUSUAL PEOPLE Richard
Lamparski visits with five stars of the
Coney Island freak show. (From the
WBAI Archives)
THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CUL-
TURAL REVOLUTION Julius
Lester’s rap and records chosen by
him.
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and LATE NEWS (2/11)
A. J. MUSTE On this, the anniver-
sary of his death, we rebroadcast the
documentary on the life of the man
who has been called “the dean of
American pacifists,’ Abraham Johan-
nes Muste. This program includes the
voices of Bayard Rustin, James Bevel,
I. F. Stone, and many others. Pro-
duced for Pacifica Radio by Steve
Post. (From WBAI 1967 Archives)
RADIO UNNAMEABLE with ole
lonesome Bob Fass and his less-than-
lonesome guests.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11
IN THE BEGINNING Larry burns
while Nero fiddles.
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/10)
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #8 In-
strumental music of the baroque.
GOLDEN VOICES The voice is
Charles Thomas’.
NEGROES AND JEWS A documen-
tary montage of opinions and com-
ments from both groups on the
nature, extent and causes of anti-
Semitism among American blacks.
Produced by Dale Minor and Charles
Hobson. (1967 Archives)
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES Chinese opera, Northern Indian
music, Swiss yodel, and Greek music
are featured.
CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTO-
PHER ISHERWOOD The novelist
discusses his book, Hollywood, East-
ern philosophy, and other subjects with
Dick Elman and Bill Butler. (From
1962 WBAI Archives)
FREE MUSIC STORE The Boehm
Wind Quintet.
LILLIAN SMITH The author talks
with Studs Terkel about small-town
life in the Deep South. (From 1961
WBAI Archives)
HUGH AITKEN ON MUSIC His
guest is Hall Overton, jazz musician.
(From 1967 WBAI Archives)
PYP Sing a Song of Sixpence, a poc-
ketful of Bob Cohen.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN
EVOLUTION Gunther Schuller’s ac-
count of the new music.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: an in-depth look at a local
issue.
CONFRONTATION: WASHING-
TON From WBAI’s Washington Bu-
reau.
WOMANKIND A current program
with news of women’s movements.
FILMS IN FOCUS Andrew Sarris on
movies of the Sixties.
AT THE RISK OF SEEMING RI-
DICULOUS Time (lots of it) left open
for music or reporting on an important
event.
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WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/12)
WITCH’S BLOOD read by Fredi
Dundee.
DANCE, NEW YORK with Marian
Horosko.
RADIO UNNAMEABLE Bob Fass
addresses himself to the difficult issue
of dealing with the difficult BAI
listener.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12
IN THE BEGINNING Larry reads
the funnies from The New York
Times.
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/11)
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #9
Bach and his immediate forerunners,
with Alan Rich.
GOLDEN VOICES The voice of the
late Kirsten Flagstad.
A CONVERSATION WITH DORIS
LESSING The author talks with free-
lance writer Richard Keffler. (From
1963 WBAI Archives)
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES Music of Macedonia, Crete,
Peru, England, and Argentina.
MISCELLANY
LUNCHPAIL with Paul Gorman and
his guests.
THE ROOM by Harold Pinter. John
Chace’s production; cast includes
Naomi Riseman, Bruce Sparks, Diana
Nailson, Bruce Craig, Donald Julian,
and George Kearns. (From 1963
WBAI Archives)
GREENWICH HOUSE MUSIC
SCHOOL: Contemporary Music Con-
cert Series ISAAC NEMIROFF Con-
certo for Oboe MAX POWERS
Matins WUORINEN Janissary Music
for One Percussion Player WOLPE
In Two Parts for Flute and Piano.
PYP Watkins Rock around the clock,
or at least for an hour.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN
EVOLUTION Another in the Gunther
Schuller series.
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD
Events of the week—from the Parks
Dept.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: an in-depth look at a local
issue.
THE POET AT ST. MARKS Lav-
rence Ferlinghetti reads from his own
published poetry. Visiting New York
City, he read at St. Marks Church in
the Bowery. Originally heard on
WRVR, the program was given to us
by that station. Recorded on Oct. 19,
1966, and introduced by Joel Oppen-
heimer, Director of poetry activities
at the church. (From 1967 WBAI
Archives)
OF UNICORNS AND UNIVERSES
A weekly survey of speculative fiction,
WBAI
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and performances in the realm of
fantasy.
READING FROM THE CONGRES-
SIONAL RECORD Your Congress-
men at work .. . and play.
LADY DAY Years after her death
in New York City, Billie Holiday’s
voice continues to captivate. The
mystique of “the lady with the gar-
denia” is probed by Dizzy Gillespie
and Lena Horne in San Francisco,
Studs Terkel in Chicago, and Frank
Schiffman at Harlem’s Apollo The-
atre. Unexpurgated passages from her
autobiography Lady Sings the Blues
(Doubleday) are voiced by Lillian
McKinney. Miss Holiday’s records
(including the banned “Gloomy Sun-
day”) are featured. Narrated by Lloyd
Edwards, Bill Heyward, Herb Ken-
nedy, and Dan Sorkin. (From the
KPFA Archives)
LADY IS DEAD Gene Marine,
former Program Director of KPFK,
speaking of the death of Billie Holi-
day. (From KPFK Archives)
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/13)
THE SCOPE OF JAZZ Martin Wil-
liams selected the jazziest of his pro-
grams. (From the WBAI Archives)
RADIO UNNAMEABLE with Bob
Fass, a jazzy holiday himself,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13
IN THE BEGINNING Larry walks
under a ladder, scares a black cat, and
laughs at Murphy’s Law.
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/12)
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #10
Late baroque in France, Italy, and
England; with Alan Rich.
GOLDEN VOICES The voice is that
of Alexander Kipnis.
READINGS FORM THE LIVING
THEATRE (From 1962 WBAI Ar-
chives)
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES Gaelic ballads, English and
Scottish music.
JAMES AGEE A documentary on
Agee with Rey. James Harold Frye,
schoolmaster, Alfred Kazin, critic,
Walker Evans, photographer, Frank
Taylor, a Hollywood friend, David
McDowell, an editor, and others.
(From 1961 WBAI Archives)
POEMS AND SONGS OF BER-
TOLD BRECHT Eric Bentley sings
Brecht’s songs; courtesy of Riverside
Records. (From 1961 WBAI Ar-
chives)
THE CLAREMONT QUARTET The
distinguished New York ensemble’s
second studio concert at BAI. Marc
Gottlieb and Vladimir Weisman are
violinists, William Schoen the violist,
and Irving Klein the cellist. QUINCY
PORTER String Quartet MEL
POWELL Filigree Setting for String
Quartet WALTER PISTON Quartet
No. 3 (From 1962 WBAI Archives)
3:30 PYP The epic continues: Chapter Two
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of Tony and the Wonderful Door,
read by Rick Harrison.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC _ IN
EVOLUTION Gunther Schuller’s
series On serious music.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists.
CAPITOL NEWS SUMMARY From
BAI’s Washington Bureau-Up-on-the
Hill.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIAL A
special time for a newsworthy event,
from the P. A. Dept.
DEBUSSY AND THE 20TH CEN-
TURY On the 100th anniversary of
the composer’s birth, Edgard Varése,
Paul Jacobs, Gunther Schuller, and
Eric Salzman discussed the French
composer’s influence on contemporary
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music. (From WBAI 1962 Archives)
THE 99.5 RADIO THEATRE: How
Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear The five
most varied voices since Babel join
forces to give a concert reading of the
less well-known works of Mr. Edward
Lear, including the Nonsense Cook-
ery and the Curious Ecologue. The
voices belong to Myrna Charles, Kath-
leen Dalton, Mike MHodel, Larry
Holpp, and John Wilson. Directed by
Baird Searles. (From 1967 WBAI
Archives)
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS.
FORTY CENTS A TON A documen-
tary about the Hazard miners’ strike,
recordings by Hamish Sinclair. (From
1963 WBAI Archives)
RADIO UNNAMEABLE with your
Knight of Nights, Bob Fass.
Ed Renfro
OUICOSA14 OI0B8I5 ertodycmyy lA Yq PISSIT 4 97 GE us 1d" 2) coy en yriheye;
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14
SEX DAY
Today is Sex Day on WBAI—the second of four special days of programming
this month. Sex in all of its forms has permeated our society. Our time is the most
permissive in the memory of any living man, woman, etc. Members of sexual
minorities (homosexuals, lesbians, etc.) loudly demand their civil and sexual rights;
entrepreneurs from 42nd Street to Madison Avenue have just about destroyed
every public sexual taboo in their quest for the last quick dollar and the last can of
deodorant. The only remaining question is whether the current sexual glut will lead
to repression or just total boredom.
All through today WBAI’s hard-nosed reporters will take a look at pornography
(no easy thing to do on the radio) and obscenity; abortion and contraception; homo-
sexuality, lesbianism and transsexualism; the gay and women’s liberation move-
ments; nudity in the theater; sex in rock and other forms of music; erotic poetry;
and many other exciting issues. Also Sex Music. Listen.
Highlights from WBAI’s Sex Day follow below. Other programs will be produced
at the last minute and rushed on the air breathlessly.
9:00 DEBBIE An interview with a trans-
sexual by Steve Post.
11:00 THE NUDE THEATER Produced by
the Drama and Literature Dept., this
program will include rehearsals, audi-
ence resporfse and audience reaction.
Also, an on-the-spot coverage of an
actual production.
1:00 LOVE IN MEN’S AND WOMEN’S
POPULAR MAGAZINES A feminist
view of Playboy et. al. vs. Women’s
Home Companion, ad nauseum. Pro-
duced by Nannette Rainone and Kay
Lindsey.
SEX—ROCK—MIX Is
music? Rock music
sex rock
sex?
6:30 NEWS
7:30 PORNO FACES LIFE Bill Schech-
ner takes an unblushing look at 42nd
Street bookstores and movies.
8:30 THE LIBERATED WOMAN A post-
pill view by Kay Lindsey and Nannette
Rainone.
9:00 ABORTION & BIRTH CONTROL:
Panacea or Plot? Produced by Kay
Lindsey and Nannette Rainone.
10:00 THE NEW SYMPOSIUM: Come To-
gether A rebroadcast of one of the
best programs from the series; a mini-
documentary taped at various public
homosexual gathering places.
12:00 THE OUTSIDE Steve Post belittles
the primal force.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15
FREE MUSIC STORE The Aeolian
Chamber Players.
THE POETRY OF MADNESS The
second of two symposia from the
Esalen Institute recorded in July, 1968,
at the Longshoremen’s Memorial Hall
in San Francisco. Featured on this
program are Julian Silverman, John
Perry, and Allen Ginsberg. (From the
Archives)
NOUS AVONS MANGE LA FORET
Chris Koch’s’ conversation with
Georges Condominas, professor of
anthropology and author of the book
of the same title. Professor Con-
dominas spent two years in Vietnam
living with a Montagnard tribe. (From
1963 WBAI Archives)
1,000 YEARS OF VIETNAMESE
POETRY A reading at New York
University’s Loeb Student Center of
Vietnamese poetry. The readers are
Nguyen Ngoc Bich, a young Viet-
namese scholar, and Robin Morgan,
an American poet. (From 1967 WBAI
Archives)
“UNTO MYSELF I REARED A
MONUMENT”: Alexander Pushkin
(1799-1837) Pushkin was the first, and
most singularly important, Russian
writer. His work profoundly influ-
enced not only all subsequent Russian
literature, but a significant number of
Russian operas. This program is a
biography of Pushkin, illustrated by
examples of his writing as used in
songs and operatic arias by Russian
composers. It also served as the pro-
logue for The Long Russian Winter, a
series of Russian operas. Written and
produced by Kathy Dobkin. (From
1969 WBAI Archives)
COUNTRY MUSIC Tom Whitmore
and friends sit around the cracker
barrel.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
WHY WE WILL NOT TAKE
COVER Discussion among Dorothy
Day, A. J. Muste, Janice Smith and
Paul DuBrul. (From WBAI’s 1960
Archives)
X. J. KENNEDY reads and com-
ments on his first book of poetry,
Nude Descending a Staircase. (From
WBAI 1962 Archives)
THE CRITICAL PEOPLE Reviews
of the various performing arts by
people closely associated with the
field.
A TRIBUTE TO PAUL ROBESON
On the occasion of Mr. Robeson’s
seventieth birthday, we broadcast this
tribute to the athlete, actor, singer,
and extraordinary man. Produced by
Charles Hobson, assisted by Kay
Lindsey. (From 1968 WBAI Archives)
EZRA POUND: READINGS AND
RECOLLECTIONS The poet reads
from his work and discusses his life
and work with a BBC interviewer.
(From 1963 WBAI Archives)
THE OUTSIDE Steve Post, from the
WBAI Newives.
WBAI
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IN THE BEGINNING with Larry
Josephson, WBAI’s Mourning Man.
MISCELLANY
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #11 The
formation of the classical style, pre-
sented by Alan Rich. (From KPFA’s
Archives)
GOLDEN VOICES The late Anthony
Boucher with the voice of Friedrich
Schorr.
A POET AMONG SCIENTISTS
Robert Graves at M.I.T. (From
WBAI’s 1963 Archives)
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES The late Dr. Henry Cowell with
music from New Guinea, India, Japan
and Romania.
POETRY NOW: A Symposium with
Five Poets Walter Lowenfels, Allen
Ginsberg, Dick Higgins, John Ash-
bery and Robert Creeley, in a sym-
posium held March 5, 1968 at the
National Book Award Presentation.
The program was taped with their
permission.
FREE MUSIC STORE The Caecilian
Chamber Players play; with Gerardo
Levy doing whatever he does.
THE SOUL OF THE WHITE ANT
A recreation for radio of the South
African classic by Eugene Marais,
produced by Cecil Jubber. An oft-
requested program from the South
African Broadcasting Corp.
SPEECH BY MALCOLM X Discus-
sion of treatment accorded the Free-
dom Democratic Party, headed by
Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer at the Demo-
cratic National Convention in Atlan-
tic City, 1964. (From WBAI’s 1964
Archives)
PYP Join Dialog, with Richard Schiff-
man.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN
EVOLUTION Gunther Schuller’s clas-
sic series, continued.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: in-depth coverage of an event
or issue.
CAVEAT EMPTOR from the D. C.
Bureau.
COMMENTARY by Conrad Lynn.
STARS IN PRIME TIME: Bob Fass
A review of Bob’s “Thing” as it’s been
in the past, and perhaps a glimpse
into what we can expect from him in
the future, thing-wise.
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/17)
THE BEST OF ITYWAYCHI #3 A
Larry The J. production.
AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES
BALDWIN Some perceptive com-
ments and observations about litera-
ture and civil rights by the well-known
author. Interviewers are Elsa Knight
Thompson and John Leonard. (From
the 1963 Pacifica Archives)
RADIO UNNAMEABLE Bob Fass
rebroadcasts his famous lecture on
playground equipment (with slides).
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IN THE BEGINNING Another open-
ing, another wound. With Larry the J.
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/16)
HISTORY OF MUSIC #12 Mozart
and The Marriage of Figaro with
Alan Rich (KPFA Archives)
GOLDEN VOICES The late Anthony
Boucher with recordings of Ninon
Vallin, part one.
IN MEMORIAM: William Carlos Wil-
liams A series of American and
foreign poets read their own poems in
a dedication to William Carlos Wil-
liams. (From WBAI’s 1963 Archives)
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES The late Dr. Henry Cowell with
music from Japan, Tahiti, Albania
and Russian gypsies.
LUNCHPAIL PAUL GORMAN’S
ON WBAI!!!
REYES TIJERINA, LEADER OF
THE ALIANZA The activist who
heads a Mexican-American move-
ment to reclaim hereditary land grants
confiscated by the U. S. government,
and a candidate for the governorship
of New Mexico in November of 1968
on the People’s Constitutional Party
ticket, talks with Elsa Knight Thomp-
son. (From Pacifica’s 1968 Archives)
BURTON GREENE: Mountains .. .
Expressions I performed by Burton
Greene, piano and harp, and Thomas
Moore, flute and cello.
PYP Another Doubleheader! First,
The Bee-man of Orn by Frank R.
Stockton, read by Gene Endres.
Second, The Beautiful Blue Jay, and
Other Tales of India, by J. W. Spell-
man, published by Little-Brown &
Co. The reader is Madeline Sunshine.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN
EVOLUTION Gunther Schuller con-
tinues his classic series on music of
our day . . . except it’s an archive, so
it’s not really “our day.”
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists,
City: a look at N. Y. C. issues.
REPORT TO THE LISTENER A
plea for money to pay for this Folio,
by Frank Millspaugh.
‘I HAVE A DREAM” The Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his
best-known speech before the March
for Freedom and Jobs in Washington
D.C. (From the 1963 Pacifica Ar-
chives)
HIGH TEA WITH MRS. MILLER
The Tiny Tim of 1966 is interviewed.
Mrs. Miller pours while Lamparski
gushes. (From the Archives)
THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CUL-
TURAL REVOLUTION Better late
than never, Julius mulls over the com-
parative values of Mrs. Miller (who
took up some of his air time) and
Himself. Phone in your vote on OX
7-8506.
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/18)
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MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JAMES
CHANEY This tape was made at a
church in Mississippi during the me-
morial service for the young black
civil-rights worker who had been
assassinated in the summer of 1964.
(Archives)
RADIO UNNAMEABLE with Bob
the F.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18
IN THE BEGINNING Larry relives
his years at Pacifica. A veritable live
nightmare.
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/17)
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #13
The Classical symphony, with Alan
Rich.
GOLDEN VOICES The late Anthony
Boucher with the voice of Ninon
Vallin, part two.
REFORMING THE UNIVERSITY
Paul Goodman, author of Growing
Up Absurd and other books, talks at
the Univ. of California just after the
Free Speech Movement crisis. His talk
was sponsored by the Associated Stu-
dents at the Berkeley campus. (From
Pacifica’s 1965 Archives)
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES US blues and music from China,
Kashmir and French Canada.
STORIES OF CRONOPIOS AND
FAMAS Julio Cortazar, a young
Argentine writer and quiet satirist,
divides the world according to an
ancient tradition, into 3 parts: The
Famas (VIPs), The Esperanzas (The
Hopefuls, hoping to become Famas)
and the Cronopios (the wonderfully
foolish heroes of these stories). Read
by the translator, Paul Blackburn, and
Robert Kelly. (From WBAI’s 1962
Archives)
THE TRANSFORMATION OF A
MAN (BABA RAM DASS) Dr. Rich-
ard Alpert, former professor of psy-
chology at Harvard Univ., was one of
the original experimenters at Harvard
with LSD and other drugs. He was
also a close friend of Timothy Leary
for some time. The talk, recorded at
the Bucks County Seminar House,
was the first appearance Dr. Alpert
had made for some time. In it he
tells of his long search for men who
might have the keys to “enlighten-
ment” and of the guru he found. This
guru sent him to the U.S.A. for a
year as part of his Sadhana. “But Dr.
Richard Alpert never returned to the
U.S.; Baba Ram Dass returned.” Pro-
duced by Bob Bisom, and rebroadcast
from 1968 by popular demand.
PYP Did you know that Bob Cohen
calls himself The Friendly Spirit?
(well I'll be darned! ed.)
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC _ IN
EVOLUTION More from Gunther
Schuller.
MISCELLANY
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NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: in-depth coverage of an event
or issue.
JUDICIAL REVIEW From the Wash-
ington Bureau.
WOMANKIND Current: news from
women’s liberation groups.
FILMS IN FOCUS Andrew Sarris on
films of the 60’s.
REPORT FROM THE SOUTH: The
Future of Racism Dale Minor inter-
views Charles Morgan, Jr., Birming-
ham attorney and then representative
of the ACLU. (From WBAI’s 1963
Archives)
AT HOME CONCERT Robert Miller,
piano, and Sophie Sollberger, flute,
play PROKOFIEV Sonata, Op. 94,
BACH Sonata in G Minor for Flute
and Piano and SCHOENBERG Suite
for Klavier, Op. 25 (From the 1967
Archives)
BALDWIN AFTER THE MURDER
OF FOUR CHILDREN James Bald-
win’s speech, given at the New York
Community Church on Sept. 25, 1963.
(Archives)
MISCELLANY
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/19)
WITCH’S BLOOD read by
Dundee.
DANCE, NEW YORK with Marian
Horosko.
RADIO UNNAMEABLE Bob Fass
reminisces about some of his old
friends whom he made famous and
who then deserted him. With names,
addresses and phone numbers.
Fredi
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19
IN THE BEGINNING Continuing
with his Best of the Beginning series,
Larry rebroadcasts his infamous in-
terview with Larry the Bagelman.
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/18)
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #14
Alan Rich’s series continues with
Romanticism in Beethoven and Schu-
bert.
GOLDEN VOICES Anthony Boucher
with recordings of Tito Schipa, part
one. (From the Archives)
W. H. AUDEN AND MARIANNE
MOORE Reading their own poems to
and answering questions from an au-
dience at the YM-YWHA Poetry
Center. (From WBAI’s 1967 Archives)
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES From Turkey, Palestine, Moroc-
co, and Spain.
THE MARQUIS DE SADE #1 A
discussion of the life and work of
Marquis de Sade by Adam Margo-
shes. (From WBAI’s 1964 Archives)
LUNCHPAIL with Paul Gorman and
guests.
THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN
FILMS: Francis Ford Coppola Discus-
sion with Mr. Coppola on the future
of American films. (From WBAI’s
1967 Archives)
PYP Watkins Rock strikes again!
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
EVOLUTION Gunther
series continues.
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD
Announced and produced by Andy
Parks.
6:00 MISCELLANY
6:15 NEWS ;
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: An event or issue of the day.
7:15 AFRICAN POETRY: Traditional and
Tribal Willard Trask reads traditional
and tribal West African poetry. (From
WBAI’s 1963 Archives)
8:00 OF UNICORNS AND UNIVERSES
Reviews of science fiction and fantasy
by Baird Searles, with a little help
from his friends.
8:15 READINGS FROM THE CON-
GRESSIONAL RECORD We wish it
were tongue-in-cheek!
8:30 RED BEANS, RICE AND OTHER
RELATED TOPICS with Neal Co-
nan.
10:45 WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/20)
11:00 FINAL STATEMENT In late Novem-
ber, 1967, Ida Cox, the last of the
great female blues singers, passed
away. Miss Cox, whose recording
career begain in 1921, retired in the
early forties and vowed never to sing
again. In 1961, Chris Albertson found
her in Knoxville, Tenn., and persuaded
her to record what she later referred
to as her “final statement”. In this
program Mr. Albertson presents some
of her early recordings, a sample of
her 1961 session, plus a rare interview.
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE Bob Fass
goes through his archives to play you
something from the “good ‘ole days.”
This should be a winner.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20
7:00 IN THE BEGINNING with Old
Father Thyme.
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Lieder and the short piano piece in the
19th Century.
GOLDEN VOICES Old recordings
of Ernestine Schumann-Heink.
OH, TASTE AND SEE Denise Lever-
tov reads selections from her poetry.
(From WBAI’s 1965 Archives)
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES Music from Burma, Africa, Fiji,
Bolivia and Morocco.
A LONG LOOK AT HARLEM Kay
Lindsey’s documentary, repeated from
June, 1969, by popular demand.
PYP Rick Harrison concludes his
reading of the ever-popular classic,
Tony and the Wonderful Door.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC _ IN
EVOLUTION More of Gunther
Schuller’s classic series.
MISCELLANY .-
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists.
CAPITOL NEWS SUMMARY From
the Washington Bureau.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIAL A time
left open for a program of importance.
THE “OTHER” ARMS RACE Com-
peting with the major world powers
in their attempts to sustain or contain
the little wars of the Cold War is a
powerful third force—the private in-
ternational armaments trade. In this
documentary, representatives of vari-
ous munitions firms, including the
world-wide organization, Interarmco,
and their critics, discuss the nature of
this unique business. (From WBAI’s
1961 Archives)
MEET THE PERFORMER Alan
Rich talks with Glenn Gould about
a variety of things and Mr. Gould
plays the piano. (1962 Archives)
WAR SUMMARY and LATE NEWS
THE SCOPE OF JAZZ Martin Wil-
liams discusses Mr. Thelonius Monk
and produces samples of the pianist’s
work.
RADIO UNNAMEABLE Bob Fass
bares his heart — YICH!
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MUSIC SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
Can you hear what it’s saying?
MUSIC
SOUNDS
SOUND
NOISE
MUSICS
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The only non-music today will be the 6:30 News and at midnight The Outside
with Steve Post.
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BAYREUTH SKYLINE Hear Wotan
sing I Gave It All Away. Dig Loge as The
Quicksilver Messenger Service. Listen to
Life With Fafner, I’ve Got Planty of
Nothung, My Friend Fricka and High
Norn. The only un-Wagner program today
will be the 6:30 News and at midnight
The Outside with Steve Post.
WAGNER’S “DAS RHEINGOLD” The
cast includes: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(Wotan), Donald Grob (Froh), Marti Tal-
vela (Fasolt), Josephine Veasey (Fricka),
Oralia Dominguez (Erda). Herbert Von
Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic.
(Approximate total time: 2 hours 30
minutes)
WAGNER’S “DIE WALKURE” With
Regine Crespin, James King, Gottlieb
Frick, Hans Hotter, Birgit Nilsson, Christa
Ludwig and others. The Vienna Philhar-
monic Orchestra is under the direction of
Georg Solti. (Total time: 4 hours, 30
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22
minutes) ,
WAGNER’S From the
1969 Salzburg Easter Festival. The cast
includes Jess Thomas (Siegfried), Ger-
had Stolze (Mime), Thomas Stewart (The
wanderer), Zoltan Keleman (Alberich),
Karl Ridderbusch (Fafner), Oralia Dom-
inguez (Erda), Helga Dernesch (Bruenn-
hilde), Reri Grist (Voice of the Forest
Bird). Herbert Von Karajan conducts the
Berlin Philharmonic. (Total approximate
time: 4 hours)
WAGNER’S “GOTTERDAMMERUNG”
With Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgas-
sen, Gustav Neidlinger, Gottlieb Frick,
Claire Watson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
Christa Ludwig, Lucia Popp, Gwyneth
Jones, Maureen Guy, Helen Watts, Grace
Hoffman Anita Walkki and The Vienna
State Opera Chorus. The Philharmonic
Orchestra under George Solti. (Total
time: 4 hours, 30 minutes)
“STEGFRIED”
WBAI
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23
7:00 IN THE BEGINNING with Larry
Josephson, a man of many voices (in
stereo, naturally).
9:00 MISCELLANY
9:15 THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #16 The
19th-Century Symphony.
10:15 GOLDEN VOICES Recordings of
Vanni Marcoux.
10:45 THE POET OF PUERTO RICO
Readings of the late Puerto Rican
poet Luis Pales Matos. (From WBAI’s
1964 Archives)
11:45 MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES Greek Homeric Poems.
12:15 TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT
Dr. Timothy Leary says “no” to the
question, is LSD a “way to achieve
God on the cheap?” He is interviewed
by Elsa Knight Thompson. (From
Pacifica’s Archives)
1:15 GROUP FOR CONTEMPORARY
MUSIC DES PRES Vive le Roi;
MACHAUT De _ Toutes Flours;
FINCH Greiner Zanner; FOSS Echoi;
BABBITT Composition for 4 Instru-
ments; WEBERN String Trio, Op. 20;
BARTOK Contrasts. (From WBAI’s
1965 Archives)
2:30 THIS LITTLE LIGHT #1: The New
Negro First of a 12-part series that is
considered by listeners and staff alike
to be, perhaps, the best and most com-
prehensive reportage WBAI has ever
done. Presented in full this week.
Written and produced by Chris Koch,
with Dale Minor, and taped in Missis-
sippi in the summer of 1964.
3:00 THIS LITTLE LIGHT #2: Valley
View This program examines the life
of one rural community in Mississippi.
3:30 PYP For an ever-varying panoply of
excitement (what?), listen to Kid Stuff.
4:30 CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN
EVOLUTION Gunther Schuller’s
series continues.
6:00 MISCELLANY
6:15 NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: Events and issues of the day
reported on.
7:15 MILITARY MONITOR from _ the
Washington Bureau.
7:45 COMMENTARY by Conrad Lynn.
8:00 SALUTE TO THE STARS Can Larry
Josephson do it at night? Tune in and
find out.
10:45 WAR SUMMARY with Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/24)
11:00 FREE MUSIC STORE The Caecilian
Chamber Players and Gerardo Levy.
(From WBAI’s Free Music Store Ar-
chives)
11:30 THE NAZIS IN AMERICA Inter-
views with George Lincoln Rockwell
and one of his lieutenants; a documen-
tary montage produced by James Wil-
cox and directed by David Ossman.
Recorded in 1962 but not broadcast
until 1964 .. . “in bad taste, excessive
and vulgar ... full of hate... have
to accept it as biased and personal.”
(From the Pacifica Archives)
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE Bob Fass
gives we listeners a grammar lesson.
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IN THE BEGINNING Larry attempts
to overthrow standard time.
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/23)
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #17
19th Century opera in Italy, France,
Germany and Russia, with Alan Rich.
GOLDEN VOICES The voice of Rich-
ard Tauber, part one.
THE BROADCASTING INDUSTRY
AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Then FCC Chairman, Newton B.
Minow’s famous “Vast Wasteland”
speech on the industry. (From WBAI’s
1961 Archives)
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES Shakwehachi (Zen Buddhist
Vertical Flute) music.
THE MARQUIS DE SADE #2 Dis-
cussion of the life and work of the
Marquis by Adam Margoshes. (From
WBAI’s 1964 Archives)
LUNCHPAIL Paul Gorman, with
interesting (or boring, depending on
what you're interested in) guests.
THIS LITTLE LIGHT #3: Harmony
An exploration of a leading black
community in Leak County, one that
instituted a school suit.
THIS LITTLE LIGHT #4: The In-
vasion The story of the nearly one
thousand volunteers who went to
Mississippi in 1964.
THIS LITTLE LIGHT #5: Freedom
Schools An analysis of the function
and purpose of the 50 Freedom
Schools.
PYP The program to end all programs.
First, Prose Poems from A Harvest
of Russian Children’s Literature, read
by Madeline Sunshine. Then, I Never
Saw Another Butterfly, poems by
children from Terezin, read by Ellen
Jaffe. Third, we present two stories,
Blue’s Broken Heart and My Mother
is the Most Beautiful Woman in the
World, read by Sally Goldin. And
fourth, Circus Poems by Ellen Jaffe,
read by Bonnie Tepper. Whew!
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC _ IN
EVOLUTION More of Gunther
Schuller’s history of our music.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: WBAI covers a local issue.
REPORT TO THE LISTENER by
none other than our Boss.
25c A WINE-O “Leonard Russell,” a
Bowery-bum, takes Randolph Hayden
Wicker and Hamish Sinclair on a tour
of Manhattan’s lost mile (the Bowery).
The program was recorded live, and
first broadcast in 1962. Our thanks to
Mr. Wicker for supplying us with this
tape, as it somehow escaped archiving,
despite its tremendous popularity.
WHATEVER BECAME OF ...
“BUFFALO BOB SMITH?” Richard
Lamparski and TV’s baby-sitter of the
50’s talks about Princess Summerfall-
winterspring, Flub-a-Dub and Howdy
Doody in this program from the Rich-
ard Lamparski Archives.
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TURAL REVOLUTION Julius reads
some of his 1969 fan letters. To re-
port or retort, phone him on OX
7-8506.
WAR SUMMARY and LATE NEWS
(2/25)
THE OCCUPATION OF WILMING-
TON The city of Wilmington, Dela-
ware, was occupied by the National
Guard from April, 1968, to January,
1969. WBAI’s Kay Lindsey and Bob
Murphy produced this program from
tapes made during the occupation.
(1969 Archives)
RADIO UNNAMEABLE Bob Fass
exposes the international liberal pinko
Jewish homosexual black midget con-
spiracy.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25
IN THE BEGINNING Larry lets last
night’s heartburn become today’s dis-
comfort.
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THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #18
Wagnerian opera with Alan Rich.
GOLDEN VOICES The voice of
Richard Tauber, part two.
THE LIBERAL INQUISITORS Dick
Elman speaks with David Susskind,
Mike Wallace and Barry Gray in this
program from WBAI’s 1961 Archives:
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES Music from Australia, New
Guinea and the Congo.
VASHTAI, QUEEN OF QUEENS A
compendium cliché production, writ-
ten and directed by Jim Armstrong.
Technical production by Ernest Lowe.
C. WRIGHT MILLS Ralph Mille-
band, one of Mills’ former students,
speaks about Mills and his contribu-
tion to the field of sociology. (From
WBAI’s 1962 Archives)
THIS LITTLE LIGHT #6: The Shaw
Boycott The Freedom Schools had an
enormous impact on the young people
in the state. This is dramatically evi-
dent in a boycott, held in one tiny
rural community in Mississippi.
ySeEMYY ANOWAIS
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THIS LITTLE LIGHT #7: No Right
to Vote While over 42% of Missis-
sippi’s citizens are Negro, only 7%
are registered to vote.
THIS LITTLE LIGHT #8: The Free-
dom Democratic Party The FDP was
formed in Mississippi to challenge the
regular state organizations at the pre-
cinct, county, state and national levels.
This program explores that party.
PYP Bob Cohen sings for his supper,
and if you are early, he’ll sing for
yours too.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN
EVOLUTION More of Gunther
Schuller’s series.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: in-depth coverage of an issue
or event.
CONFRONTATION:
TON From that Bureau.
WOMANKIND Current
women’s liberation groups.
FILMS IN FOCUS by Andrew Sarris.
AT THE RISK OF SEEMING RI-
DICULOUS, we will.
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/26)
WITCH’S BLOOD read by Fredi
Dundee.
DANCE, NEW YORK with Marian
Horosko.
RADIO UNNAMEABLE Bob Fass
asks, “Which blood?”
WASHING-
news of
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26
IN THE BEGINNING Larry Joseph-
son excites restless and unquenchable
curiosity with his quest for knowledge
doomed, as we know, to failure.
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/25)
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC -#19
First of three programs on contempo-
rary music by Alan Rich.
GOLDEN VOICES The late Anthony
Boucher with a program on Teenage
Sopranos!
FANSHEN: A Documentary of
Revolution in a Chinese Village Wil-
liam Hinton, author of the book of
the same name, talks with Elsa Knight
Thompson about the current situation
in Red China. Hinton lived for several
years in China and witnessed the land
reform phase of the revolution. (From
Pacifica’s 1967 Archives)
MISCELLANY
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES Music from Czechoslovakia.
LUNCHPAIL Paul Gorman chats
with friends about various unrelated
topics.
THIS LITTLE LIGHT #9: The Two
Conventions The story of the Missis-
sippi Freedom Democratic Party and
the regular Mississippi Democratic
Party.
THIS LITTLE LIGHT #10: The
Challenge The story of the Freedom
Democratic Party, the regular Demo-
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cratic Party, and the National Demo-
cratic Convention.
THIS LITTLE LIGHT #11: The End
of a Summer Mississippi Freedom
Summer, 1964, began with the disap-
pearance of three civil rights workers
and ended with their funerals. This
program explores the accomplish-
ments and failures of that summer.
PYP Last February’s Watkins Rock.
Don’t miss it!
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC _ IN
EVOLUTION Gunther Schuller’s clas-
sic series continues.
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD
Andy Parks reads some activities that
will take place, to which the public is
invited.
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists;
City: reporters review the day’s ac-
tivities here.
LOVE AND DEATH IN THE
' AMERICAN NOVEL Leslie Fiedler,
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Professor of Literature at Montang
State Univ., discusses his critical book
tracing the development of the Ameri-
can novel from the fall of Clarissa to
the seduction of Marjorie Morning-
star. (From WBAI’s 1960 Archives)
OF UNICORNS AND UNIVERSES
Baird Searles and aides discuss current
works in the field of science fiction
and fantasy.
READINGS FROM THE CON-
GRESSIONAL RECORD Kuttner and
fellow komics read the juicy bits.
THE HUNDRED THOUSAND
SONGS OF MILAREPA A reading
from the Tibetan Buddhist classic
translated and annotated by Garma
C. C. Chang. Mr. Chang gives an in-
troduction on the life of the poet-
saint and reads Milarepa’s poems.
(1962 Archives)
FREE MUSIC STORE More music
performed by the Caecilian Chamber
Players with Gerardo Levy. From
WBAI’s live Free Music Store of
1968-69.
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FANNY LOU HAMER _ INTER-
VIEW Feminine Black Power at work
in the jungle of Mississippi Democratic
Party politics. Mrs. Hamer is inter-
viewed by Colin Edwards. (From the
1965 Pacifica Archives)
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/27)
HERE SHE IS... The Making of
Miss America, 1970 Bob Kuttner’s
kaleidoscopic view of Atlantic City
the week of the Miss America Pag-
eant: contestants, spectators, judges,
promoters, women’s liberators, police
and hookers. Reported by Mary Lou
Oates and Bob Kuttner.
RADIO UNNAMEABLE Bob Fass,
in his own version of Miss America,
interviews some draft dodgers who
may miss America.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27
IN THE BEGINNING Larry tap-
dances in bare feet. A first!
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/26)
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC #20
Alan Rich’s series continues with the
second program on _ contemporary
music.
GOLDEN VOICES The voice of
Enrico Caruso.
UNKNOWN AMERICAN NEGRO
ARTISTS: An Interview with Romare
Bearden Jeanne Siegel interviews the
painter, Romare Bearden, who discus-
ses the leading and _ still-unknown
Negro painters and sculptors and
compares the problems that faced the
19th Century Negro artist to those that
face him today. Mr. Bearden was on
the committee for the exhibition As-
pects of Negro Art and Culture at
City College that was part of Mayor...
Lindsay’s New York Cultural Festival
in October, 1967. (From WBAT’s 1967
Archives)
WBAI
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program in Alan Rich’s series on con-
temporary music.
MUSIC OF THE WORLD’S PEO-
PLES American music.
THE PSYCHOLOGY AND AES-
THETIC OF HIGH-SPEED RAC-
ING DRIVING Stirling Moss, one of
the top race drivers, talks about the
psychology and—interestingly—about
the technology of high-speed Grand-
Prix driving as a kind of performing
art. Also present are auto freelancer
Ken Purdy and Robert Potts, then
WBAI’s News Editor and speed nut.
(From WBAI’s 1963 Archives)
THE MERSEY SOUND Poetry by
three Liverpool-on-the-Mersey poets,
read by Mike Hodel, Sarah Dalton
and Martin Last—with Beatle music.
(From WBAI’s 1967 Archives)
THIS LITTLE LIGHT #12: Con-
clusion The final program in this series
on Mississippi in the summer of 1964,
goes beyond the events of the summer
and explores the possibilities of
change and the direction that change
might take. The entire series was
edited, written and produced by Chris
Koch and Dale Minor. (From WBAI’s
1964 Archives)
PYP Richard Lewis reads some poéms
from his book Miracles and discusses
some of the problems of putting poetry
to music.
NOAH GREENBERG AND THE
N.Y. PRO MUSICA Eric Salzman
speaks with them and they demon-
strate ancient instruments. (1963
Archives).
MISCELLANY
NEWS
Newscast with Paul Fischer;
Shoptalk with guest journalists.
CAPITOL NEWS SUMMARY From
the DC Bureau.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIAL A time
left open for a program of timely in-
terest.
LAST AND FIRST MEN by Olaf
Stapledon. As a prelude to A Day of
If (Feb. 28), a reading in toto of the
brilliant prophetic novel by Olaf Sta-
pledon that received great response
when broadcast last year in half-hour
episodes. It will be heard tonight in
its complete running time of 12 hours,
each episode to start on the hour and
half hour, interrupted only for the
10:30 to 11 p.m. Miscellany and News
slot. Last and First Men was first pub-
lished in 1931, and is a history of the
human race through the next two bil-
lion years and 18 species. Contained
within the enormous scope of the
work are the seeds of probably half
the science fiction written since then.
Published in the U. S. by Dover Books.
MISCELLANY
WAR SUMMARY by Paul Fischer
and LATE NEWS (2/28)
LAST AND FIRST MEN (CON-
TINUED) For details, see 8:30 listings.
And remember, no Radio Unnameable
tonight.
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LAST AND FIRST MEN (conclu-
sion) The final hour of this epic series.
For details, see listings last night at
8:30.
MISCELLANY
WAR SUMMARY and NEWS (2/27)
PYP Ronny Watkins hosts this one.
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A DAY OF IF
A DAY OF IF Fantasy and science fiction, those interrelated fictional forms, are
both concerned with questions of if, usually as applied to the larger natural or
environmental aspects of the setting. Fantasy is generally of “what if... had
will happen?” Therefore, our title for
a day of radio concerning fantasy and science fiction. As listeners know, the Drama
and Literature department of WBAI considers these subjects ideal for radio, the
mind of the listener being usually more successful than any set decorator or special
effects creator in fashioning the needed events and milieux. To celebrate the WBAI
decade, herewith a day of programs of if, both new and from our archives. High-
lights are listed below at the times they can be expected to be heard; other pro-
grams possible in the gaps will be apropos music, more plays or readings, and
perhaps a discussion by writers in the field on some aspect of their craft. Note
particularly the Theodore Sturgeon festival: three plays from the works of that
noted s-f author.
happened?”; science fiction, “what if...
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—Baird Searles
THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DR.
FAUSTUS Hurd Hatfield plays Dr.
Faustus in Christopher Marlowe’s The
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus. The
rest of the cast consists of Tom Ham-
mon, Terry Ashcroft, Wayne Mac-
Intyre, Wells Richardson, D. F. Gil-
lium, Paul Robinson, Wayne Croft,
Rena Veren and Theodore Tenly.
THE MIND’S EYE THEATRE: Titus
Groan Readings from the Gormen-
ghast trilogy of Mervyn Peake con-
cerning the enclosed, created world of
the massive castle of Gormenghast.
(From WBAI’s 1967 Archives)
THE MIND’S EYE THEATRE: The
Star Pit S-F radio play specially
adapted by Samuel R. Delany from
his novel The Star Pit. Delany nar-
rates; other actors are Randa Haines,
Walter Harris, Jerry Natz, John Tan-
ner and Phoebe Wray. (From WBAI’s
1967 Archives)
MISCELLANY
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THE MIND’S EYE THEATRE: The
Skills of Xanadu Theodore Sturgeon’s
S-F story of a representative of an im-
perialistic planet and his encounter
with the deceptively pastoral culture
of the planet Xanadu. Adapted, pro-
duced and directed by Baird Searles.
The cast includes Larry Holpp,
Anthony Abeson, Annette Oliver, Cliff
May and Deborah Jowitt. (From
WBAI’s 1967 Archives)
A TOUCH OF STRANGE A simple,
tender love story with just a “touch
of strange.” The tale of John Smith
and Jane Doe who meet one night
while waiting for their respective, not-
quite-human dates. Ronald Kahn is
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Director of Drama and Literature Dept.
John Smith; Judy Richheimer is Jane
Doe; Baird Searles is the narrator and
producer.
THE GIRL HAD GUTS A dramatic
reading of the short story by Theo-
dore (Skills of Xanadu) Sturgeon, one
of America’s foremost writers of
science fiction. Stand warned, it’s a
nasty little shocker about what could
be encountered on a new planet. The
readers are Ann Rivers, Frank Coffee
and Baird Searles. The story is used
by the kind permission of the author.
This program was first broadcast in
March of 1969.
THE RELUCTANT DRAGON Ken-
neth Graham’s famous comedy
adapted for reader’s theatre by Linda
Glynn and Leslie Irene Coger. It’s
the history of an encounter between
the famous St. George and an effete
intellectual dragon who abhors vio-
lence. The cast: Shepherd: Albert
Norton; Wife: Ann Rivers; Son: Sherry
Pockell; Dragon: David Haight; St.
George: Edgar Walker; Narrator:
Baird Searles, who also directed.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR- Kurt
Vonnegut, the semi-science-fiction
writer, talks with humor and sincerity
about writing and life to a crowd
mostly composed of Vonnegut lovers.
THE OUTSIDE Steve Post continues
fantasy day with a reading of his diary
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RUBY DEE ON WBAI
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J-/0- 1960) To speak of Pacifica radio is to discuss one’s own hopes and
concerns, To support Pacifica radio is to endorse one’s own
ideals and aspirations.
Perhaps most important to me has been the pioneering role
Pacifica radio has played in its support of young black artists.
Although I include in this the many discussions with artists
like James Baldwin, the late Lorraine Hansberry, and Leroi
Jones on the problems of the black artist, I am more excited
by the open opportunity which Pacifica radio has provided
young people to demonstrate their talents before an audience.
The new Pacifica Watts Bureau is perhaps the most impressive
example of this. Operating from a warehouse in the Watts
section of Los Angeles, this new program feature of Pacifica
radio assists black youth in developing their talents and ex-
pressing their views free from political censorship and free
from demands of commercial blandness. The proposed exten-
sion of this project to include Harlem in New York and
Oakland in the San Francisco Bay area deserves the support
of all of us who are interested in the arts and in communications
between the black and the white peoples in our cities.
That, of course, is another major concern of mine which
I identify with Pacifica radio: the consistent effort to provide
an opportunity for serious and honest dialogue between the
| noaressen, races. Too often, that which is called dialogue in the major
media is simply a monologue: whites lecturing blacks. Often,
this has been well-intentioned, but the intentions were defeated
by consigning blacks to the role of listener only. Pacifica radio
has constantly insisted that dialogue must be a two-way com-
munication: each must have his turn to speak and each must
take his turn to listen. Pacifica has provided black people who
have something to say a place to say it and an audience to say
it to; to say things that, on occasion, not many people were
willing to hear.
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IRVING M. EVERYTHING
by Ertc SALZMAN
Music Director, WBAI
The major fact of musical life—if not every aspect of con-
temporary life—has been the intrusion of technology at all
levels.
Technology alters and extends our perceptions. It changes the
nature of experience and creates a new fund of common,
stored, shared experience.
If technology alters and extends our perceptions, it changes
the nature of experience and creates a new fund of common,
stored shared experience.
If technology oppresses us—or is employed in order to con-
trol or oppress us—we must fight back with that which
oppresses. We must use the technology to fight technology. It
is no longer possible to run away.
Perhaps 90% or more of musical experience today is trans-
mitted via amplifiers and loudspeakers. Records and radio
have extended our perceptions backwards (to the baroque, the
Renaissance, the middle ages), forwards (to electronic, ex-
tended time and multi-layer forms) and crossways around the
globe (to the multiple expressions of Western pop and folk
and non-Western musics from every part of the world). Tech-
nology extends our perceptions to include the entire musical
expression of the human race as it has been handed down to us,
and, indeed, the entire audible universe. This is not just theory,
it is everyday experience.
Inevitably, technology alters as it extends.
No aspect of music—least of all, live performance—can or
does remain unaffected by all this. Yet our musical and
intellectual institutions, even the media themselves, roll on
unconcerned and without any significant awareness of the
tremendous changes that have already taken place.
Dylan, Varese, Vivaldi, Ravi Shankar, J. S. Bach, Cage, The
Stones, Gagaku, Boulez, Beethoven, Judy Collins, Gregorian
chant, Stockhausen, gamelan, Ives, Jimi Hendrix, Renaissance
music, Ornette Coleman, Giuseppe Verdi, Frank Zappa,
Debussy, ragtime, Johann Strauss, Ligeti, Landini, Mozart,
Aretha Franklin, Monteverdi, Coltrane, Mahler, Joan Baez,
Mussorgsky, medieval music, Milton Babbitt, Kurt Weill,
Buddhist chant, Stravinsky and the Moog synthesizer are—to
mention a few examples—all part of the common shared
experience.
Those who argue that art is irrelevant are the victims of an
understandable confusion between Art and art, Music and
music. Those who maintain that Rock is not music but Revolu-
tion fail to see (hear) that all relevant musical experience is
revolutionary: if you listen—really listen—your head will be
changed. Changing people and changing their culture is the
essential first step.
Therefore, all relevant musical experience is, by definition,
Rock. Or, perhaps, Rock and all the other relevant musics—
old, new, Eastern, Western—form some larger category hence-
forth to be known as Irving. Que viva Irving!
We can, of course, sit around, snap our fingers and wait for
something to happen, something to change. Or we can take
part at every moment of our lives. [t is the very uselessness of
music that makes it absolutely necessary.
For the first time, music can genuinely aspire to be universal.
The entire experience of the human race becomes—in theory
and increasingly in practice—almost instantly available to any
member of it. Music is about getting it together. It is about
relationships between people and their cultures. This has always
been true but technology makes it possible to understand these
things in new and profound ways. Technology brings the center
of musical culture back to sound and the experience of
listening. It relates the external world to internal awareness and,
in so doing, creates new forms of consciousness. It brings us
more of the past, more of the present and more of the future
all the time. It helps create a post-historical age in which the
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old cliches of history and culture no longer apply. All styles,
all schools—all possible styles and schools—co-exist simultane-
ously. The notion of avant-garde is dead. The notion of style
is dead. The notion of Modern Music is dead. What is left to
us, alive and well, is only music, Irving, everything.
In this sense, music becomes a kind of metaphor for the
wider range of contemporary experience. It also becomes—
or rather has been and continues to be—a means for change.
This, more or less as it might be explained in words (no sub-
stitute for the experiences themselves), is what music at WBAI
is all about. This is what The Free Music Store is about, what
At the Risk of Seeming Ridiculous is about, what Morning
Music, Afternoon Music, and all the other WBAI musics are
about. This is what all our activities—creative, interpretive,
productive, reproductive—are about. This is why we see WBAI
as the natural medium for that incredibly large community of
talent which finds no outlet or real means of communication in
our jingle-jangle culture. This is why we feel that we are
deeply into a way of life and a way of music that none of the
other media even grasps. We have created and are creating life-
lines where none exists. Others can pick up on our innovations;
none can pick up on our kind of communication. We are aware
of a whole new audience, new means of communicating new
and old ideas, ways of understanding and of grooving on life
and music. We feel that we have helped create that audience,
those ideas and that understanding—and that we are helping to
enlarge and deepen them.
In a profound sense, everything we do is part of a single,
larger activity—making music, changing people’s heads, being
human, Irving.
The entire potential range of experience is raw material for
us. Inevitably the notion of art and artistic and musical ex-
perience changes and we are helping to change it. We are only
at the beginning of a new stage in human experience; every-
thing is yet to be done. Join us!
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