Short Series'

George Jessel Salutes
October 15, 1953
Rotary International

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Is there any chance the Memoirs of the Movies posted on July 8 can be reposted? Somehow I missed them and I find the show very interesting. Thanks in advance!

MEMOIRS OF THE MOVIES

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American Music Festival
February 19, 1941
Benny Goodman

This sextet represents Goodman pretty close to his prime, featuring the brief, golden collaboration with Charlie Christian. What's even more valuable is that it documents Cootie Williams' time with the band. Williams had just left Duke Ellington and within the year would start his own group. The rest of the band consists of George Auld (saxophone), Artie Bernstein (bass), Johnny Guarnieri (piano), and Dave Tough (drums). We come upon the band just as they're finishing a rendition of "Rose Room." The host, Ralph Burton, prompts Benny to play something "from the old days." He obliges with "Flying Home," featuring Charlie Christian's innovative electric guitar. There's a little awkward interplay as Burton requests "a blues," but is tongue-tied when Goodman wants to know in what key. Williams then launches into one of his great growling solos. Next, Burton requests "a pop tune" and the band plays "The Sheik of Araby." Then Goodman announces, "Georgy Auld wants to play a little bit of 'Body and Soul' all by himself." Burton praises Swing as "the folk music of America's cities." Finally, the sextet takes us home with a rousing version of "Gone With What Wind?" As the outro music swells, Burton thanks the King of Swing for dropping by and pronounces his group "the real McCoy."

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American Music Festival
February 14, 1944
Huddie Ledbetter

We hear two friends get together to share some music with each other. Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, a renowned folksinger and bluesman, performed with pioneering folklorist Alan Lomax.

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the "blues" with Charlie Christian is very rare! thanks to bring it here!
Keep boppin´
Marcel

BobbyP wrote:American Music Festival
February 19, 1941
Benny Goodman

This sextet represents Goodman pretty close to his prime, featuring the brief, golden collaboration with Charlie Christian. What's even more valuable is that it documents Cootie Williams' time with the band. Williams had just left Duke Ellington and within the year would start his own group. The rest of the band consists of George Auld (saxophone), Artie Bernstein (bass), Johnny Guarnieri (piano), and Dave Tough (drums). We come upon the band just as they're finishing a rendition of "Rose Room." The host, Ralph Burton, prompts Benny to play something "from the old days." He obliges with "Flying Home," featuring Charlie Christian's innovative electric guitar. There's a little awkward interplay as Burton requests "a blues," but is tongue-tied when Goodman wants to know in what key. Williams then launches into one of his great growling solos. Next, Burton requests "a pop tune" and the band plays "The Sheik of Araby." Then Goodman  announces, "Georgy Auld wants to play a little bit of 'Body and Soul' all by himself." Burton praises Swing as "the folk music of America's cities." Finally, the sextet takes us home with a rousing version of "Gone With What Wind?" As the outro music swells, Burton thanks the King of Swing for dropping by and pronounces his group "the real McCoy."

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American Music Festival
February 14, 1944
Huddie Ledbetter

We hear two friends get together to share some music with each other. Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, a renowned folksinger and bluesman, performed with pioneering folklorist Alan Lomax.

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The People Take the Lead. April 8, 1955. NBC net. "The Battle of Fraternity Row". Sustaining. A drama/documentary about discrimination in college fraternities. The program is produced in co-operation with the American Jewish Committee. A series of four programs. 26:47.

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The People Take the Lead. April 16, 1955. NBC net. "Termites in the House". Sustaining. A drama/documentary about discrimination in public housing. The program is produced in co-operation with the American Jewish Committee. 26:38.

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Another great news show unearthed, brushed off, and shared by Mr. Bobby! Many thanks!

The People Take The Lead 55-xx-xx (x) They Can't Wait
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Script for They Can't Wait (1955)
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The People Take the Lead. April 30, 1955. Program #4. NBC net. "You Hold the Key". Sustaining. A drama/documentary about the U.N.'s "Declaration of Human Rights" and its meaning to local communities. The program is produced in co-operation with the American Jewish Committee. This is the last of the series. Irving Engle (president of the American Jewish Committee). 26:57.

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From 1937 to 1943 author, critic, and commentator Irving Deakin hosted WQXR’s Music and Ballet, a Thursday evening program devoted to dance and music for dance productions "of all peoples in all periods."

On March 21, 1938, the trade publication Radio Daily praised the broadcasts as unique and “handled in an easy smooth manner that makes every listener a potential St. Denis or Shawn. It is to  be noted that the program would have only a very limited listener appeal if it were not handled so well…Program is definitely one of the WQXR topnotchers, and should continue as such.”

September 9, 1937
Max Rhinehardt's The Green Flute, a Chinese fantasy, is profiled.

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October 7, 1937
Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini
A new ballet by David Lichine is soon to premiere in America and Irving Deakin helps to set the stage.

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February 3, 1938
First Anniversary Program: The Nutcracker Suite
Music and Ballet celebrates its first anniversary on the air. Congratulatory telegrams are read and words of praise from all quarters are heard.

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March 10, 1938
Ted Shawn and Jess Meeker's O, Libertad!
"The battle to establish the dance as a masculine art and sport is being rapidly won."

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Looks like another winner! Thanks, Mr. Bobby.

May 12, 1938
Herbert Kingsley's Music for Catherine Littlefield's Ballet, Terminal

Announcer Rex Benware announces the world radio premiere of Terminal by composer Herbert Kingsley playing his own score for the ballet by the same name. Host Irving Deakin talks about Philadelphia Ballet's leader Catherine Littlefield, the choreographer of the ballet Terminal, He also comments on Herbert Kingsley, his background and education at the Eastman School of Music and work in vaudeville. Terminal was composed by Kingsley in two months. Kingsley and Clifford Herzer play piano excerpts of music for Terminal accompanied by Kingsley's commentary.

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June 9, 1938
Blues Symposium

Host Irving Deakin talks about the blues before he introduces Langston Hughes. He talks about the blues as being largely nostalgic and about homesickness, "the perennial human longing for Eden and its vanished ease and warmth and peacefulness. "The American Negro first found the contemporary childish-primitive musical idiom voicing and stilling the ancient nostalgia with its sensuous plaintiveness. But the whole world, never entirely free of the recessive yearning, and wearied, disappointed, and demoralized, promptly chimed in with him and joined him in some of his practical efforts to recapture the lost paradise. Harlem arose, a city such as vision could have never conceived." Langston Hughes describes the blues as "songs folks make up when their heart hurts."

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October 13, 1938
Leonide Massine's Three-Cornered Hat

Announcer Rex Benware makes introductory remarks. Irving Deakin discusses the opening (last night) of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe at the Metropolitan Opera house its first American engagement. Deakin plays a musical excerpt from Massine's ballet Gay Parisienne. Massine talks briefly about the Music and Ballet radio program, and his new ballets, St. Francis (Noblissima visione), Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, Bogatyri, and Gaîté parisienne.

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October 27, 1938

Host Irving Deakin interviews the dancer Alexandra Danilova who talks about Serge Diaghilev, the Russian ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, and her training at the Imperial Ballet School in Russia, beginning at the age of nine. The prima-ballerina also comments on ballet audiences in the United States and describes the disciplined life of a ballet dancer as well as her favorite roles. American's she says did not first understand the Russian ballet, expecting contortionists and acrobats, but not now. Deakin asks Danilova about her diet and caring for her feet. She says Epson salts baths and a special cream are necessary and one never goes on stage with cold feet.

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Hey Mr. Bobby,
I'm getting an error message for each of these:
10886042780003 failed decryption 1 - 28.1 MB
Could you please check?

pnussbaum wrote:Hey Mr. Bobby,
I'm getting an error message for each of these:
10886042780003 failed decryption 1 - 28.1 MB
Could you please check?

I don't know what happened there. I'll repost.

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December 29, 1938
Ballet Looks Forward

Irving Deakin speaks about ballet in general terms with an actor reciting verses written by England's poet laureate John Masefield. Deakin describes the path ballet has taken since the late nineteenth century in Russia to the present by playing excerpts of music from the following ballets: Tchaikovsky's La Bella Durmiente (The Sleeping Beauty), Swan Lake, and The Nutcracker, Coppélia, Michel Fokine's ballets Prince Igor, Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, and Scheherazade. Deakin also discusses Leonide Massine's ballets The Hood Humored Ladies, La Boutique Fantasque, The Three-Cornered Hat, Le beau Danube, and Présages, Nijinska's Bolero, Adolph Bolm's Ballet Mécanique, and Massine's Gaîté Parisienne.

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Everything's A-okay, Mr. Bobby! Thanks!

Music and Ballet
February 2, 1939
The Gay Parisienne

Announcer Rex Benware provides the show introduction on its second anniversary which includes welcoming Ruth Eleanor Howard, founder, publisher and editor of The American Dancer magazine. Howard congratulates host Irving Deakin on the success of the program as well as the help it has given the world of dance. Benware plays a short excerpt from a recording of Leonide Massine speaking from an earlier program and reads his congratulatory telegram. Ruth Chanova speaks briefly and reads a telegram from Bronislava Nijinska. John V.L. Hogan, the president and co-founder of WQXR speaks briefly about radio's first program for the ballet and its music. Elliott M. Sanger, vice president and co-founder of WQXR, talks briefly about the program and notes that it was a radical departure for radio that has succeeded.

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Hearing Highlights. April 26, 1954. NBC net. Sustaining. A summary of the third day of the Army-McCarthy hearings. "Brass tacks and ugly words." "There is no evidence that this chairman (McCarthy) could have been bought off." Secretary of the Army Stevens is questioned about personnel suspended at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Richard Harkness (commentator), Robert Stevens, Ray Jenkins, Joseph McCarthy, John McClellan (Senator, Arkansas). 44:31.

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Hearing Highlights. April 27, 1954. NBC net. Sustaining. A summary of the fourth day of the Army-McCarthy hearings. The controversy of the doctored photo of Army Secretary Stevens and Private David Schine. Senator McCarthy says, "I am getting sick of being interrupted in the middle of the sentence." This leads to a shouting match about "points of order." Roy Cohn is called to the stand to testify about the photo. Richard Harkness (narrator), Karl Mundt, Joseph Welch, Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, Ray Jenkins, Robert Stevens, Henry Jackson (Senator, Washington). 58:58.

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Music and Ballet
April 11, 1940
Tribute to Tchaikovsky

Show host Irving Deakin talks (via transcription so he can "attend only production of Gissele with its two greatest living interpreters") about composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky on the centennial of his birth. He plays excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Theme and Variations from Suite no. 3 in G major, opus 55, a work a work rarely heard in American concert halls or radio. Deakin discusses Tchaikovsky's music for the ballet Casse Noisette (The Nutcracker or Shchelkunchik) and plays recorded ballet musical excerpts. Deakin also provides critical commentary on the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's spring 1940 season at the Metropolitan Opera House. Deakin also comments on the Russian ballerina and actress Irina Baronova as a street dancer in Leonide Massine's Le beau Danube and as a doll in Michel Fokine's Petrouchka. He concludes by talking about Alicia Markova in Frederick Ashton's Devil's holiday.

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Music and Ballet
October 3, 1940
The Happy Miracle by Fuerst

Rex Benware announces the world premiere of the music for the ballet, The Happy Miracle. Show host Irving Deakin talks about conductor and Eugene Fuerst, who composed the music and story for the yet to be produced ballet, The Happy Miracle, a work in five scenes. The pianist and conductor, Paul Berl performs the piano version of the composition following Deakin's description of the opening scene of the ballet.

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Hearing Highlights. May 5, 1954. NBC net. Sustaining. A summary of the tenth day of the Army-McCarthy hearings. Robert Collyer testifies that J. Edgar Hoover denies writing the letter produced by Senator McCarthy. Senator McCarthy takes the stand to testify about the source of the letter. McCarthy insists that all the other senators take the stand as well. McCarthy swears he will never reveal his confidential sources. Joseph Welch tries to get Senator McCarthy to reveal the source of the letter. Richard Harkness (narrator), Ray Jenkins, Robert Stevens, Robert Collyer, Joseph McCarthy, Stuart Symington, Joseph Welch, Everett Dirksen. 39:03.

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Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Army-McCarthy Controversy
May 7, 1954

A summary of the twelfth day of the Army-McCarthy hearings. Robert Stevens testifies for the twelfth day in a row. McCarthy continually refers to journalist Joseph Alsop as "Allslop." Secretary Stevens is questioned about Roy Cohn's threat to "declare war on the army." When were "Mr. X, Y and Z" removed from the army?

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Hearing Highlights. May 10, 1954. NBC net. Sustaining. A summary of the thirteenth day of the Army-McCarthy hearings. Robert Stevens testifies for the thirteenth day in a row. An attempt is made to get Secretary Stevens to testify about a report he claims to have not read. Richard Harkness (narrator), Robert Stevens, Karl Mundt, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Welch, John McClellan, Henry Dworshak (Senator, Idaho), Stuart Symington, Ray Jenkins, Roy Cohn, Henry Jackson, Everett Dirksen. 44:43.

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