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Belgium
Belgium (
i/ˈbɛldʒəm/ BEL-jəm), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres (11,787 sq mi), and it has a population of about 11 million people. Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe, Belgium is home to two main linguistic groups, the Dutch-speakers, mostly Flemish (about 60%), and the French-speakers, mostly Walloons (about 40%), plus a small group of German-speakers. Belgium's two largest regions are the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia. The Brussels-Capital Region, officially bilingual, is a mostly French-speaking enclave within the Flemish Region. A German-speaking Community exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political conflicts are reflected in the political history and a complex system of government.
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Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major American record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but as of 2011[update] operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMI.
The Capitol Records Company was founded by songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of fellow songwriter and film producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs (1910–1971), owner of Music City, at the time the biggest record store in Los Angeles.
Johnny Mercer first suggested the idea of starting a record company while he was golfing with Harold Arlen and Bobby Sherwood. He told them, "I’ve got this idea of starting a record company. I get so tired of listening to the way everyone treats music. I keep feeling they’re selling out. And I don’t like the way artists are treated either. Bing Crosby isn’t the only one who can make records. I don’t know, I think it would be fun." By 1941, Mercer was not only an experienced songwriter, but a singer with a number of records to his name. Mercer next suggested starting a record company to his friend Glenn Wallichs while Mercer was visiting Wallichs' record store. Wallichs responded, "Fine, you run the record company and find the artists,' and Mercer added, "and you run the business."
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Capitol records
Capitol Records is a major American record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but as of 2011[update] operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMI.
The Capitol Records Company was founded by songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of fellow songwriter and film producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs (1910–1971), owner of Music City, at the time the biggest record store in Los Angeles.
Johnny Mercer first suggested the idea of starting a record company while he was golfing with Harold Arlen and Bobby Sherwood. He told them, "I’ve got this idea of starting a record company. I get so tired of listening to the way everyone treats music. I keep feeling they’re selling out. And I don’t like the way artists are treated either. Bing Crosby isn’t the only one who can make records. I don’t know, I think it would be fun." By 1941, Mercer was not only an experienced songwriter, but a singer with a number of records to his name. Mercer next suggested starting a record company to his friend Glenn Wallichs while Mercer was visiting Wallichs' record store. Wallichs responded, "Fine, you run the record company and find the artists,' and Mercer added, "and you run the business."
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Chicago
Chicago (
i/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. The city has around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland", is the third largest in the United States, with an estimated 9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion also extends into DuPage County.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world on the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city retains its status as an international hub for finance, industry, telecommunications and infrastructure, with O'Hare International Airport being the second busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008[update], the city hosted 45.6 million domestic and overseas visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the 4th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the world, ranking just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles. Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and trade.
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Germany
Germany (i/ˈdʒɜrməni/), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] (
listen)), is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state and the largest economy in the European Union. It is one of the major political powers of the European continent and a technological leader in many fields.
A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, was documented before AD 100. During the Migration Period, the Germanic tribes expanded southward, and established successor kingdoms throughout much of Europe. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation while southern and western parts remained dominated by Roman Catholic denominations, with the two factions clashing in the Thirty Years' War, marking the beginning of the Catholic–Protestant divide that has characterized German society ever since. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states into the German Empire in 1871 which was Prussian dominated. After the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the subsequent military surrender in World War I, the Empire was replaced by the Weimar Republic in 1918, and partitioned in the Treaty of Versailles. Amidst the Great Depression, the Third Reich was proclaimed in 1933. The latter period was marked by Fascism and World War II. After 1945, Germany was divided by allied occupation, and evolved into two states, East Germany and West Germany. In 1990 Germany was reunified.
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Ithaca College
Ithaca College is a private college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York, United States. The school was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music. The college has a strong liberal arts core, but also offers several pre-professional programs and some graduate programs. The college is also known internationally for its communications program: the Roy H. Park School of Communications. The college is set against the backdrop of Cayuga Lake, Cornell University, and several waterfalls and gorges. The college is perhaps best known for its large list of alumni who play or have played substantial roles in the world of broadcasting. The college has been ranked among the top ten master's universities in the North by U.S. News & World Report every year since 1996. For the 2010 rankings, the college was ranked 7 in this category.
Ithaca College was founded as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music in 1892 when a local violin teacher, William Grant Egbert, rented four rooms and arranged for the instruction of eight students. For nearly seven decades the institution flourished in the city of Ithaca, adding to its music curriculum the study of elocution, dance, physical education, speech correction, radio, business, and the liberal arts. In 1931 the conservatory was chartered as a private college. The college was originally housed in the Boardman House, that later became the Ithaca College Museum of Art, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
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Manhattan
Manhattan (/mænˈhætən/) is the most densely populated and the oldest of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the U.S. state of New York. The borough and county consist of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island,Mill Rock, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble Hill, a very small area on the mainland bordering the Bronx. The original city of New York began at the southern end of Manhattan, expanded northward, and then between 1874 and 1898, annexed land from surrounding counties.
The New York County is the most densely populated county in the United States, and one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a 2010 population of 1,585,873 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles (59.5 km2), or 69,464 residents per square mile (26,924/km²), more dense than any individual American city. It is also one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, with a 2005 per capita income above $100,000. Manhattan is the third-largest of New York's five boroughs in population, and its smallest borough in land area.
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New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.
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Union College
Union College is a private, non-denominational liberal arts college located in Schenectady, New York, United States. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents. In the 19th century, it became the "Mother of Fraternities", as three of the earliest such organizations were established there. After 175 years as a traditional all-male institution, Union College began enrolling women in 1970.
The college offers a liberal arts curriculum across some 21 academic departments, as well as opportunities for interdepartmental majors and self-designed organizing theme majors. In common with most liberal arts colleges, Union offers a wide array of courses in arts, sciences, literature, and foreign languages, but, in common with only a few other liberal arts colleges, Union also offers ABET-accredited undergraduate degrees in computer engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Approximately 25% of students major in the social sciences; 9% in history; 10% in psychology; 11% in engineering; 10% in biology; 10% in the liberal arts; while some 5% design their own majors. By the time they graduate, about 60% of Union students will have engaged in some form of international study or study abroad.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.
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Walt Disney World
Coordinates: 28°25′7″N 81°34′52″W / 28.41861°N 81.58111°W / 28.41861; -81.58111
The Walt Disney World Resort (also known informally as Disney World) is the world's most-visited entertainment resort. Located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, approximately 21 miles (34 km) southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States, the resort covers an area of 30,080 acres (12,173 ha; 47 sq mi) and includes four theme parks, two water parks, 23 on-site themed resort hotels (excluding eight more that are on-site, but not owned by the Walt Disney Company), including a campground, two spas and physical fitness centers, five golf courses, and other recreational venues and entertainment.
The resort was originally developed by Walt Disney in the 1960s to supplement Disneyland in California. In addition to hotels and a theme park similar to Disneyland, Walt's original plans for the resort also included an "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow", a planned city that would serve as a test bed for new innovations for city living. After extensive lobbying, the Government of Florida created the Reedy Creek Improvement District, a special government district that essentially gave the Disney Company the standard powers and autonomy of an incorporated city. Walt died in 1966 before his original plans were fully realized.
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Alex Chadwick
Alex Chadwick is an American journalist best known for his work on National Public Radio, and as a former co-host of the radio newsmagazine Day to Day. He was a part of the development of NPR's Morning Edition in the 1970s and was an on-air personality on All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. Chadwick has also worked with ABC and CBS.
In January 2009, NPR laid off Chadwick. He was one of 64 employees terminated as part of NPR's response to a budget shortfall.
Chadwick continues to do a video blog for Slate V called "Interviews, 50 cents."
Chadwick received the Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative journalism, two Lowell Thomas Awards from the Overseas Press Club for foreign reporting, and was part of the CBS News team that produced the Emmy- and Peabody-Award-winning documentary, In the Killing Fields of America.
Chadwick was married to Radio Expeditions executive producer Carolyn Jensen, who died in 2010.
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Alison Stewart
Alison Stewart (born July 4, 1966) is an American radio and television journalist. She was one of the hosts of the Bryant Park Project, a morning drive news program from NPR. Stewart first gained widespread visibility as a political correspondent for MTV News in the 1990s.
Stewart, a native of the New York City suburb of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, is the daughter of a pharmaceutical company executive and a high school science teacher.
Stewart attended Brown University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and American literature. She began her broadcasting career there where she was the music director for the school's radio station, WBRU.
Stewart anchored news segments for New York City's WHTZ, host PBS's Act Against Racism campaign, and contributed to Swing magazine.
In 1991, Stewart arrived at MTV News as a segment producer when she was hired by MTV News Director Linda Corradina. She began on-air reporting during MTV's first "Choose or Lose" segments, which covered the 1992 presidential race. Her coverage earned her a Peabody Award.
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Andrea Seabrook
Andrea Seabrook (b. circa 1974) is an American radio reporter for NPR. She began hosting weekend broadcasts of that organization's signature news magazine All Things Considered on September 29, 2007, after six years of primarily reporting on the United States Congress for the same outlet. She replaced Debbie Elliott, who traded places with Seabrook and moved to becoming NPR's Congressional reporter.
Seabrook received a bachelor's degree in biology from Earlham College in 1996. While at Earlham, Seabrook got involved with Earlham's college radio station, WECI. She went on to study Latin American literature at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) in Mexico City.
Seabrook began reporting for NPR in 2001, after working on Anthem, an NPR music program, and working in the Mexico Bureau and provided fill-in coverage of Mexico and Central America. She then returned to NPR headquarters in Washington, and worked with NPR's Radio Expeditions series, before she shifted to Morning Edition.
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Ari Shapiro
Ari Shapiro (born September 30, 1978 in Fargo, North Dakota) is an American radio journalist who grew up in Portland, Oregon. He currently is White House correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). He is also a frequent guest host of Morning Edition and other NPR programs.
Ari Shapiro is the son of database researcher Dr. Len Shapiro and author Dr. Elayne Shapiro. When he was eight years old, he moved with his family to Portland, Oregon. He attended Beaverton High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
Shapiro began covering the White House in 2010, after five years as NPR's Justice Correspondent. He began his NPR career as an intern to legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg in January 2001. Following that assignment, he worked as an editorial assistant and an assistant editor on Morning Edition.
Before becoming NPR’s justice correspondent, Shapiro worked as a regional reporter for NPR in Atlanta and Miami.
Shapiro regularly appears as an analyst on TV news programs, including The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
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Audie Cornish
Audie Cornish is a journalist and a current co-host of NPR's All Things Considered.
Cornish is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. During her years there, she interned with NPR, and worked with campus radio station WMUA.
Previous jobs include reporting for the NPR station WBUR, a reporter for the Associated Press in Boston, NPR's reporter for 10 southern states and reporting on Capitol Hill issues.
On September 4, 2011, Audie replaced Liane Hansen on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday. Hansen had served as host of the show for more than twenty years.
At the end of the December 18, 2011 broadcast of Weekend Edition, Cornish announced that she would be leaving the program in January 2012 to co-host All Things Considered during the 2012 election year; to be replaced on January 8 by Rachel Martin. It was subsequently reported that the change was due to Michele Norris' decision to step down from All Things Considered during the 2012 election year because her husband had taken a position in the Obama re-election campaign. The implication was that Cornish would return to Weekend Edition after the election.
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Billy Mayerl
Billy Joseph Mayerl (May 31, 1902 – March 25, 1959), was an English pianist and composer who built a career in music hall and musical theatre and became an acknowledged master of light music. Best known for his syncopated novelty piano solos, he wrote over 300 piano pieces, many of which were named after flowers and trees, including his best known composition, Marigold (1927). He also ran the successful School of Syncopation for whose members he published hundreds of his own arrangements of popular songs.
He also composed works for piano and orchestra, often in suites with evocative names such as the 'Aquarium Suite' (1937), comprising "Willow Moss", "Moorish Idol", "Fantail", and "Whirligig".
Mayerl was born into a musical family on London's Tottenham Court Road, near the West End theatre district. His father, a violin player, attempted to introduce Mayerl to the violin at the age of four but failed. After noticing Mayerl's affinity for the piano he started him with piano lessons soon afterward and by the age of 7 he was studying at the Trinity College of Music, paid for with a series of scholarships. His first major concert was at the age of nine, playing Grieg's Piano Concerto. In his teens, he supplemented these lessons by accompanying silent movies and playing at dances.
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Bob Edwards
Robert Alan Edwards (born May 15, 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He was the first broadcaster with a large national following to join the field of satellite radio. Edwards is the host of The Bob Edwards Show on Sirius XM Radio and Bob Edwards Weekend distributed by Public Radio International to more than 150 public radio stations. He gained fame as the first host of National Public Radio's flagship program, Morning Edition.
Edwards is a graduate of St. Xavier High School (Louisville) and the University of Louisville and began his radio career in 1968 at a small radio station in New Albany, Indiana. Afterwards, Edwards served in the U.S. Army, producing and anchoring TV and radio news programs for the American Forces Korea Network from Seoul. Following his army service, he went on to anchor news for WTOP-AM, a CBS affiliate, in Washington, D.C. He also earned an M.A. in Communication from American University in Washington D.C. In 1972, at age 25, Edwards anchored national newscasts for the Mutual Broadcasting System. Edwards joined NPR in 1974. Before hosting Morning Edition, Edwards was co-host of All Things Considered. Edwards is married to NPR news anchor Windsor Johnston. He has two daughters, Eleanor and Susannah, and a stepson, Brean Campbell.
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Bob Garfield
Bob Garfield (b. ca. 1955) writes the "Ad Review" TV-commercial criticism feature in Advertising Age. He is also the co-host of the On the Media show on National Public Radio. Before that, he was a frequent contributor to All Things Considered. He is the advertising analyst for ABC News. He has also appeared on CBS News, CNBC, PBS, and the Financial News Network.
Garfield has been a columnist for USA Today and contributing editor for Civilization and the Washington Post Magazine. He has also written for The New York Times, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and many other publications. A collection of his work, titled Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream, was published by Scribner's in 1997. A second book, And Now a Few Words from Me, appeared in 2003. Garfield co-wrote "Tag, You're It," a country song performed by Willie Nelson, and wrote an episode of the situation comedy Sweet Surrender. In 2009 he published a book about the collapse of the media landscape called The Chaos Scenario.
In October, 2007 Garfield launched the ComcastMustDie.com WWW site to protest Comcast's customer service.
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Bob Mondello
Bob Mondello (Washington, D.C.) is an American film critic. He has worked for National Public Radio since 1984 — where he is the arts critic / film and theater commentator for All Things Considered. He has also been theater critic for Washington City Paper since 1987. Each year, Mondello sees well in excess of 200 films and 100 plays, commenting on them on radio, in print, and in speaking engagements at film clubs and public radio presentations around the country. He has also written for such publications as The Washington Post, USA Today, and Preservation Magazine.
Before becoming a professional critic, Mondello spent more than a decade in entertainment advertising, as public relations director for Roth Theaters, a mid-Atlantic chain of movie theaters, where he learned the ins and outs of the film industry, and also for an independent repertory theater in D.C., where he got a working background in film history.
In addition to his weekly reviews, Mondello produces frequent commentaries and reported pieces on the arts, among them "American Stages" (2005) an eight-part NPR series exploring the history, reach and accomplishments of the regional theater movement, numerous pieces on silent films – a bit of a trick on radio – and cultural features he has produced from Argentina.
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Brooke Gladstone
Brooke Gladstone is an American journalist and media analyst. She is host and managing editor of the National Public Radio newsmagazine, On the Media, and has been a contributor to The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Observer, and Slate. Gladstone lectures at universities and conferences and has appeared on PBS's Bill Moyers Journal and CNN's Reliable Sources (and once filled in for Charlie Rose on PBS's Charlie Rose Show.) She is widely quoted as an expert on press trends.
Gladstone has covered media for much of her career. In Washington, D.C. in the early 1980s she covered public broadcasting for the industry newspaper Current and reported for Cablevision and The Washington Weekly.
In 1987, she joined National Public Radio, first as editor of Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, and then as senior editor of All Things Considered. In 1991, she received a Knight Fellowship to study Russian language and history. A year later, she was reporting from Moscow for NPR, covering such stories as the bloody insurgency of the Russian Parliament. In 1995, Gladstone returned to the United States and was hired as NPR's first "media reporter," based in New York City.
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Carl Kasell
Carl Kasell (pronounced /ˈkæsəl/; born April 2, 1934) is an American radio personality, most widely known as a newscaster for National Public Radio and as the official judge and scorekeeper of the weekly news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!.
In an interview with Renée Montagne, just before his final broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition, Kasell reveals that he knew he would be in radio at a young age. He talks about how he hid behind the radio to fool passers-by into thinking they were listening to the radio when they in fact were hearing the young Kasell.
A native of Goldsboro, North Carolina, Kasell was a student of drama in high school, where one of his mentors was Andy Griffith, then a high school drama instructor. Although Griffith urged Kasell to pursue a career in theatre, Kasell took to radio more. During his time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he helped launch local radio station WUNC with fellow student Charles Kuralt.
He worked as an announcer and DJ at a radio station in Goldsboro before moving to the Washington, DC area in 1965. He advanced to the position of news director at WAVA in Arlington, Virginia. As news director in Virginia, he hired Katie Couric as an intern one summer. He joined National Public Radio's staff as a news announcer for Weekend All Things Considered in 1975. He was the news announcer for NPR's Morning Edition from its inception in 1979 through 2009.
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Corey Flintoff
Corey Flintoff (born April 8, 1946) is a field correspondent and newscaster for National Public Radio.
Flintoff was born in Fairbanks, Alaska. He has a bachelor's degree from University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree from University of Chicago. Flintoff spent many years as a newscaster and reporter at the Alaska Public Radio Network before joining NPR.
In 2007, Flintoff was included in a report compiled by MSNBC of journalists who had made campaign contributions to political candidates. A 2003 contribution of $538 to Howard Dean made their list. Flintoff insists that his wife made the contribution from a joint account. In spite of the error, Flintoff stated that it led to policy reforms at NPR.
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Craig Windham
Craig Windham is a radio journalist for National Public Radio. He currently is the anchor of NPR's weekday morning newscast, and was previously the anchor of NPR's weekend afternoon newscast. He joined NPR in 1995. Prior to working for NPR, Windham was a Washington correspondent for RKO Radio Network. Windham was born in Washington, D.C. and is a graduate of the College of William and Mary.
He went on to earn a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in counseling from The George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. Windham is a licensed clinical professional counselor and works with adolescents. His dissertation and ongoing research focus on the use of social media and online communication by teenagers.
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Daniel Schorr
Daniel Louis Schorr (August 31, 1916 – July 23, 2010) was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio (NPR). Schorr won three Emmy Awards for his television journalism.
Schorr was born in the Bronx, New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants Tillie Godiner and Gedaliah Tchornemoretz. He began his journalism career at the age of 13, when he came upon a woman who had jumped or fallen from the roof of his apartment building. After calling the police, he phoned the Bronx Home News and was paid $5 for his information.
He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the West Bronx, where he worked on the Clinton News, the school paper. He graduated from City College of New York in 1939 while working for the Jewish Daily Bulletin. During World War II, Schorr served in Army Intelligence at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
In January 1967, he married Lisbeth Bamberger, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
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Dave Brubeck
David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (born December 6, 1920) is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.
His long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the Dave Brubeck Quartet's best remembered piece, "Take Five", which is in 5/4 time and has endured as a jazz classic on the top-selling jazz album, Time Out. Brubeck experimented with time signatures throughout his career, recording "Pick Up Sticks" in 6/4, "Unsquare Dance" in 7/4, and "Blue Rondo à la Turk" in 9/8. He is also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music, and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr. Broadway and the animated mini-series This Is America, Charlie Brown.
Brubeck was born in Concord, California and grew up in Ione. He is of English (maternal), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic (paternal) ancestry His father, Howard "Pete" Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth (née Ivey), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money. Brubeck originally did not intend to become a musician (his two older brothers, Henry and Howard, were already on that track), but took lessons from his mother. He could not read sheet music during these early lessons, attributing this difficulty to poor eyesight, but "faked" his way through, well enough that this deficiency went mostly unnoticed.
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Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater (born May 27, 1950) is an American Jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress and host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She is a United Nations Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Born Denise Eileen Garrett in Memphis, Tennessee, she grew up in Flint, Michigan. Her father, Matthew Garrett, was a jazz trumpeter and teacher at Manassas High School, and through his playing, Denise was exposed to jazz early on. At the age of sixteen, she was a member of a rock and rhythm'n'blues trio, singing in clubs in Michigan. At 18, she studied at the Michigan State University before she went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With their jazz band, she toured the Soviet Union in 1969. The next year, she met trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater, and after their marriage, they moved to New York City, where Cecil played in Horace Silver's band.
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Deems Taylor
Joseph Deems Taylor (December 22, 1885 – July 3, 1966) was an American composer, music critic, and promoter of classical music. Nat Benchley, author of The Lost Algonquin Roundtable, referred to him as "the dean of American music."
Deems Taylor was born in New York City to JoJo and Katherine Taylor. He attended New York University.
Taylor married three times. His first wife was Jane Anderson. They married in 1910 and divorced in 1918. In 1921, he married an actress and writer named Mary Kennedy. They had a daughter, Joan Kennedy Taylor, in 1926, and divorced in 1934. Taylor married his third and final wife, costume designer Lucille Watson-Little, in 1945. They divorced eight years later.
Taylor initially planned to become an architect; however, despite minimal musical training he soon took to music composition. The result was a series of works for orchestra and/or voices. In 1916 he wrote the cantata The Chambered Nautilus, followed by Through the Looking-Glass (for orchestra) in 1918, earning him public praise and recognition.
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Dennis James
Dennis James (August 24, 1917 – June 3, 1997), born Demie James Sposa, was an American television personality, actor, and announcer. He is credited as the host of television's first network game show, the DuMont Network's Cash and Carry in 1946. James was the first person ever to host a telethon and to appear in a television commercial.
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, James began his career in radio with WNEW (now WBBR) and moved to television in 1938, working for the soon-to-become-DuMont Television Network station WABD, which is now WNYW. (WABD helped to found the DuMont network in 1946.) James became the host of a few game shows, such as the ABC version of Chance of a Lifetime (1952–1953) and served as commentator for DuMont's wrestling and boxing shows, such as Boxing From Jamaica Arena (1948-1949). He hosted the DuMont daytime variety show Okay, Mother (1948–1951). James often addressed the TV audience as "Mother", a practice he had begun when discussing the finer points of wrestling during his sports broadcasts.
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Diane Rehm
Diane Rehm (
/ˈriːm/; born Diane Aed on September 21, 1936) is an American public radio talk show host. Her program, The Diane Rehm Show, is distributed nationally and internationally by National Public Radio. It is produced at WAMU, which is licensed to American University in Washington, D.C.
Diane Rehm was born in Washington, D.C. to Wadie Aed and Eugenie Zouekie, ethnic Assyrian/Syriac Christians from Mersin, Turkey. She attended William B. Powell Elementary and Roosevelt High School in Washington, D.C. Upon graduation, she was employed by the city's highways department, where she became a radio dispatcher.[citation needed] She never attended college.
Diane married John Rehm, her second husband, in 1959. She has two grown children, David and Jennifer.
In her autobiography, Rehm said she had been molested at the age of nine by a congressman whose identity she has not revealed.
A voice problem led Rehm to take a hiatus from broadcasting in 1998. She was found to be suffering from spasmodic dysphonia. Rehm sought treatment which allowed her to resume doing her show.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and big-band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions. In the opinion of Bob Blumenthal of The Boston Globe "In the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American or otherwise, than Edward Kennedy Ellington." A major figure in the history of jazz, Ellington's music stretched into various other genres, including blues, gospel, film scores, popular, and classical. His career spanned more than 50 years and included leading his orchestra, composing an inexhaustible songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals, and world tours. Several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his eloquence and extraordinary charisma, he is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other traditional genres of music. His reputation increased after his death and the Pulitzer Prize Board bestowed on him a special posthumous honor in 1999.
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English people
The English (from Old English: Englisc) are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens. Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, a Germanic people originally from Northern Germany who migrated to Britain.
Historically, the English population is descended from several genetically similar peoples—the earlier Britons (or Brythons), the Germanic tribes that settled in the area, including Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, who founded what was to become England (from the Old English Englaland), and the later Danes, Normans and other groups. Following the Act of Union in 1707, in which the Kingdom of England became part of the Kingdom of Great Britain, English customs and identity became closely aligned with British customs and identity.
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Farai Chideya
Farai Chideya pronounced /fəˈraɪ tʃɨˈdeɪ.ə/ (born July 27, 1969, in Baltimore, Maryland) is a novelist, multimedia journalist and radio host. She is producing and hosting "Pop and Politics with Farai Chideya," a series of radio specials on politics.
Chideya is also the founder and president of one of the earliest pop culture blogs in the US, PopandPolitics.com. During the 15 years of its existence, PopandPolitics.com has been a training ground for young arts and culture journalists. In addition to her radio, video and online journalism, Chideya appears as a political analyst on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC News, Fox News, BET and HBO and sits on the Journalism Advisory Committee for the Knight Foundation.
In May 2009, Atria Books published Chideya's first novel, Kiss the Sky, which details the life of a black female rock musician making a career comeback in New York. The book takes place just months before 9/11 and is rooted in the ethos of the Black Rock movement and the New York club scene. Chideya is also part of The Finish Party writing group, and is the author of three non-fiction books about race and politics: Don't Believe the Hype, The Color of Our Future and Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters.
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Fats Waller
Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943), born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.
Thomas Wright Waller was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller and the Reverend Edward Martin Waller. He started playing the piano when he was six and graduated to the organ of his father's church four years later. At the age of fourteen he was playing the organ at Harlem's Lincoln Theater and within twelve months he had composed his first rag. Waller's first piano solos ("Muscle Shoals Blues" and "Birmingham Blues") were recorded in October 1922 when he was 18 years old.
He was the prize pupil, and later friend and colleague, of stride pianist James P. Johnson. Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. Overcoming opposition from his clergyman father, Waller became a professional pianist at 15, working in cabarets and theaters. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson's "Carolina Shout", a song he learned from watching a player piano play it.
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Fiona Ritchie
Fiona Ritchie (born 1960) is a Scottish radio broadcaster best known as the producer and host of The Thistle & Shamrock, an hour-long Celtic music program that airs weekly throughout the United States on National Public Radio (NPR). She also produces Thistlepod, offering free podcasts from program archives of artist interviews and musical excerpts from the show.
The program has won numerous awards since its inception in 1981, offering a fusion of traditional and contemporary Celtic sounds, interwoven with in-studio performances and Ritchie’s own trademark commentary in her “soft Scots” dialect.
Ritchie was born and raised in Scotland, where she went to the University of Stirling for her undergraduate education. While there, she was invited to spend one semester in North Carolina in the United States, and that was when she first heard NPR. After graduating in Scotland she returned to North Carolina and, although initially pursuing post-graduate research, was hired by WFAE FM, the NPR station in Charlotte, to oversee fundraising and promotion efforts.
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Fred Allen
Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan, May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956) was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically pointed radio show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the so-called classic era of American radio.
His best-remembered gag was his long-running mock feud with friend and fellow comedian Jack Benny, but it was only part of his appeal; radio historian John Dunning (in On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio) wrote that Allen was radio's most admired comedian and most frequently censored. A master ad libber, Allen often tangled with his network's executives (and often barbed them on the air over the battles), while developing routines the style and substance of which influenced contemporaries and futures among comic talents, including Groucho Marx, Stan Freberg, Henry Morgan and Johnny Carson, but his fans also included President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and novelists William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Herman Wouk (who began his career writing for Allen).
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Gracie Allen
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen (July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964), known as Gracie Allen, was an American comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. For contributions to the television industry, Gracie Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6672 Hollywood Boulevard.
Gracie Allen was born in San Francisco, California, to George Allen and Molly Darragh, who were of Irish Catholic extraction. She made her first appearance on stage at age three and was given her first chance On Air by Eddie Cantor. She was educated at the Star of the Sea Convent School and during that time became a talented dancer. She soon began performing Irish folk dances with her three sisters, who were billed as "The Four Colleens." In 1909 Allen joined her sister, Bessie, as a vaudeville performer. At a performance in 1922 Allen met George Burns and the two formed a comedy act. The two were married on January 7, 1926, in Cleveland, Ohio. Gracie allen was born with two different color eyes on blue and one green.
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Guy Raz
Guy Raz (pronounced /ˈɡaɪ ˈrɑːz/) is the host of NPR's weekend afternoon news program Weekend All Things Considered, having assumed the job in 2009. Before hosting WATC, he was the youngest overseas-based bureau chief for NPR, first in Berlin, then London and the Pentagon. He also served as CNN's correspondent in Jerusalem from 2004-2006. He has received several awards for his reporting including the Edward R. Murrow Award and the Daniel Schorr Prize. Raz is a graduate of Brandeis University. He received his masters degree in history from Cambridge University in the UK.
Raz covered the conflicts in Kosovo, Macedonia, Afghanistan and Iraq. He has reported from more than 50 countries.
Raz is also the creator of NPR’s popular segment “Three Minute Fiction.”
In 2004, Raz contributed $500 to John Kerry. Raz said of the contribution, "Yes, I made the donation. At the time, I was a reporter with CNN International based out of London. I covered international news and European Union stories. I did not cover US news or politics."
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Ira Flatow
Ira Flatow (/ˈaɪərə ˈfleɪtoʊ/; born March 9, 1949) is a radio and television journalist and author who hosts National Public Radio's popular Science Friday. He is probably best known on TV for hosting Newton's Apple, a television science program for children and their families.[citation needed]
Flatow was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, where his first experience with a television news program was in his high school. He was a cameraman for the daily news program at H. Frank Carey High School in Franklin Square, New York. In 1967, however, Flatow entered college to pursue an engineering degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1971 in civil engineering. In 1969, he began working in radio at WBFO, in Buffalo, New York and his first news experience was covering antiwar speeches, demonstrations and campus riots at SUNY Buffalo in 1970. Flatow's first science stories were created in 1970 during the first Earth Day. In 1971, he became the news director of WBFO.
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Jimmy McPartland
James Dugald McPartland (March 15, 1907 – March 13, 1991), better known as Jimmy McPartland, was an American cornetist and one of the originators of Chicago Jazz. McPartland worked with Eddie Condon, Art Hodes, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey and other jazz veterans, often leading his own bands.
Jimmy McPartland was born in Chicago, Illinois. His father was a music teacher and baseball player. Family problems caused Jimmy and his siblings to be partly raised in orphanages. After being kicked out of one orphanage for fighting, he got in further trouble with the law. Fortunately, he had started violin at age 5, then took up the cornet at age 15. He credited music with turning him around. He confessed that if it weren't for music, he probably would have been "a hoodlum".
McPartland was a member of the legendary Austin High Gang with Bud Freeman (tenor sax), Frank Teschemacher (clarinet), brother Dick McPartland (banjo/guitar), brother-in-law, Jim Lanigan (bass, tuba and violin), Joe Sullivan (piano) and Dave Tough (drums) in the 1920s. They were inspired by the recordings they heard at the local malt shop, The Spoon and Straw. They would study and try to duplicate what they heard on recordings by The New Orleans Rhythm Kings and others, and would frequently visit with Louis Armstrong, only a few years their senior, and King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band at Lincoln Gardens.
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Joe Morello
Joseph Albert Morello (July 17, 1928 – March 12, 2011) was a jazz drummer best known for his 12½-year stint with The Dave Brubeck Quartet. He was frequently noted for playing in the unusual time signatures employed by that group in such pieces as "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo à la Turk". Popular for its work on college campuses during the 1950s, Brubeck’s group reached new heights with Morello. In June 1959, Morello participated in a recording session with the quartet — completed by the alto saxophonist Paul Desmond and the bassist Eugene Wright — that yielded “Kathy’s Waltz” and “Three to Get Ready,” both of which intermingled 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures.
Morello suffered from partial vision from birth, and devoted himself to indoor activities. At six years old he began studying the violin, going on to feature three years later as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, playing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, and again three years later.
At the age of 15 Morello met the violinist Jascha Heifetz and decided that he would never be able to equal Heifetz's "sound", so switched to drumming, first studying with a show drummer named Joe Sefcik and then George Lawrence Stone, author of the noted drum textbook Stick Control for the Snare Drummer. Stone was so impressed with Morello's ideas that he incorporated them into his next book, Accents & Rebounds, which is dedicated to Morello. Later, Morello studied with Radio City Music Hall percussionist Billy Gladstone.
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Juan Williams
Juan Williams (born April 10, 1954) is an American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel. He also writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and Time. He was a senior news analyst for National Public Radio (NPR) from 1999 until October 2010. At The Washington Post for 23 years, Williams has worked as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, White House correspondent and national correspondent.
Williams is the author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (1988), a companion to the documentary series of the same name about the African-American Civil Rights Movement;Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (2000), a biography of Thurgood Marshall, the first black American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States; and Enough (2006), which was inspired by Bill Cosby's speech at the NAACP gala, and deals with Williams' critique of black leaders in America, and as he puts it the "culture of failure." Williams has received an Emmy Award and critical praise for his television documentary work and he has won several awards for investigative journalism and his opinion columns.
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Ken Rudin
Ken Rudin is an American radio journalist. As the political editor for National Public Radio (NPR), he is involved with political news on a variety of NPR programs. Rudin also cohosts a weekly podcast called It's All Politics, a segment called "The Political Junkie" on the NPR program Talk of the Nation and writes a column of the same name for npr.org. During the 1960s, Rudin began collecting campaign buttons, he now has a collection of more than 70,000 campaign items.
Rudin was born in the Bronx, where he attended P.S. 64, J.H.S. 82 and William Howard Taft High School. After high school he moved to Fort Lee, New Jersey.
During the 2008 presidential primary campaign, Rudin attracted criticism for comparing Senator Hillary Clinton with Glenn Close's character Alex Forrest in the movie Fatal Attraction during an appearance on CNN's Sunday Morning. Of Senator Clinton, he said, like Close's character, "she’s going to keep coming back, and they’re not going to stop her." In response to this Rudin was featured in the Worst Persons In The World segment on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Rudin later apologized.
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Ketzel Levine
Ketzel Levine is an American radio journalist who began her broadcast career in 1974. She joined National Public Radio (NPR) in 1977 and worked, variously, as the network's arts producer, sports director, features reporter and garden expert. From 2000 through 2008, she was senior correspondent for the NPR program Morning Edition. At the end of that year, due to cutbacks at the network, Levine was laid off, while working on a documentary series about Americans coping with economic stress and job loss. Her final NPR broadcast was about how she, herself, had just lost her job.
Levine's academic background was in music and communications. Her first job in broadcasting was at the full-time, non-commercial classical music station WMHT-FM in Schenectady, NY. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1977 to work at NPR, where she produced the arts magazine, Voices in the Wind. In 1979, she became part of the original staff of Morning Edition, where she remained until moving to London to report for the BBC World Service. While abroad, she also freelanced for NPR, CNN and the BBC domestic service. She returned to NPR full-time as its arts reporter in 1986. In 1990, she took up studies in horticulture, began her own landscape and design business, and in 1992 became NPR's horticultural reporter, the "Doyenne of Dirt", broadcasting for the next ten years on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. During this time she was also a contributing writer for Horticulture Magazine, a features writer for Martha Stewart Living and a contributing writer for The Oregonian. In 2000, she published 'Plant This!' (Sasquatch Books, 2000).
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Lakshmi Singh
Lakshmi Singh (English pronunciation: /ˈlækʃmiː ˈsɪŋ/) is NPR's national midday newscaster.
Singh's father is Indo-Trinidadian. Her mother is Puerto Rican.
Singh graduated from Syracuse University in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and Latin American studies. Prior to her tenure at NPR, she worked at WAER in Syracuse, then NPR member stations KPBX (Spokane), WMFE (Orlando), and Washington DC's WAMU, where she was a reporter and local show host. She joined NPR's Newscast Unit in 2000.
In addition to announcing news throughout the day, Singh's resume includes field reporting, and contributing to NPR's Latino USA, PRI, Voice of America and Gannett News Service.
Singh is the subject of musician Parry Gripp's song "Singh, Lakshmi Singh", which specifically mentions "there's no entry on Wikipedia".
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Liane Hansen
Liane Hansen (pronounced /liːˈæn/; born 29 September, 1951,Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American journalist and radio personality who was senior host of the National Public Radio newsmagazine Weekend Edition Sunday until her retirement in May 2011. Her experience in broadcast journalism includes working as a reporter, producer, and host for local and national programs.
Hansen's first participation in NPR programming was in 1976 when she was a production assistant and substitute host for Fresh Air. In 1979, she formally joined NPR as a production assistant for All Things Considered. She hosted Weekend All Things Considered before hosting Performance Today and guest-hosting Fresh Air. In November, 1989, Hansen joined Weekend Edition Sunday.
Ms. Hansen is the daughter of Edwin Hansen and Lois Hansen. The spelling of Hansen's first name came from that of Liane de Pougy (1869–1950). She is married to fellow NPR host Neal Conan with whom she has a son (Connor) and daughter (Casey). In April 2011, Hansen stated publicly that she and Conan are divorcing, in a parting described as "amicable".
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Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand (born Los Angeles, California) is an American journalist best known for her work on National Public Radio as a co-host of radio news magazine Day to Day (since cancelled) and a contributor to Morning Edition. Brand attended Columbia University where she later returned to teach radio journalism, and is a graduate from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in English.
Brand is currently hosting a daily program called "The Madeleine Brand Show" for Southern California Public Radio broadcast on KPCC between 9:00AM and 10:00AM Pacific.
2. Summer Songs ... including one of Madeleine Brand from 1989 with her photo, and who also signed off NPR 2009-08-14 (as included in their earlier cut-backs report linked as #1 above) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111887994
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Margot Adler
Margot Adler (born April 16, 1946) is an author, journalist, lecturer, Wiccan priestess and radio journalist and correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR).
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Adler grew up mostly in New York City. Her grandfather, Alfred Adler, was a noted Austrian Jewish psychotherapist, collaborator with Sigmund Freud and the founder of the school of individual psychology.
Adler received a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 1970. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1982.
Adler first worked for WBAI, FM 99.5, the Pacifica Radio outlet in New York City. She created the talk shows Hour of the Wolf in 1972 (still on the air as hosted by Jim Freund) and later Unstuck in Time.
Adler joined NPR in 1979 as a general assignment reporter, after spending a year as an NPR freelance reporter covering New York City, and has since worked on a great many pieces dealing with subjects as diverse as the death penalty, the right to die movement, the response to the war in Kosovo, computer gaming, the drug ecstasy, geek culture, children and technology, and Pokémon. Since 9/11, she has focused much of her work on stories exploring the human factors in New York City, from the loss of loved ones, homes and jobs, to work in the relief effort. She was the host of Justice Talking up until the show ceased production on July 3, 2008. She is a regular voice on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She is also co-producer of an award-winning radio drama, War Day.
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Maria Hinojosa
Maria Hinojosa (b. 1961, Mexico City) is a Mexican American broadcast journalist. She was (2005–2010) Senior Correspondent for the PBS news magazine, NOW on PBS.
She is currently also the host of her own show on PBS, Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One, an interview talk show that features one-on-one interviews with a diverse group of guests, including actors, writers, activists, and politicians.
Hinojosa's first journalism experience was as host of a Latino radio show while she was a student at Barnard College, where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Latin American studies.
In 1995, Hinojosa began hosting the National Public Radio show Latino USA; she also hosted the WNBC-TV public affairs show, Visiones. From 1997 to 2005, she worked for CNN's New York City bureau, where she gained recognition for her reporting on urban issues.
She can currently be seen on PBS, where she hosts Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One, and on V-me, the Spanish-language TV network, where she hosts La Plaza: Conversaciones con María Hinojosa.
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Marian McPartland
Margaret Marian McPartland, OBE (née Turner; born March 20, 1918) is an English-born jazz pianist, composer, writer, and was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio until she stepped down on November 10, 2011.
Marian Turner was a musical prodigy from the time she could sit at the piano, about the age of three. She studied classical music and the violin, in addition to the piano.
She pursued classical studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Much to the dismay of her family, she developed a love for American jazz and musicians such as Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, Mary Lou Williams, and many others. In 1938, despite her family's efforts to keep her at Guildhall, Marian left to join Billy Mayerl's Claviers, a four-piano vaudeville act, performing under the stage name of Marian Page. The group toured throughout Europe during World War II, entertaining Allied troops.
While touring with USO shows in Belgium, she met and began performing with Chicago cornetist Jimmy McPartland in 1944. The couple soon married, playing at their own military base wedding in Germany.
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Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams (May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Williams wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements, and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for such bandleaders as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Dizzy Gillespie, and many others.
Born as Mary Elfrieda Scruggs in Atlanta, Georgia, she grew up in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of eleven children. As a very young child she taught herself to play the piano (her first public performance was at the age of six). She became a professional musician in her teens. She cited Lovie Austin as her greatest influence. At age six, Williams was already helping to support her ten half-brothers and sisters by playing for parties. She began performing publicly at the age of seven, when she became known admiringly in Pittsburgh as "the little piano girl of East Liberty".
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Melissa Block
Melissa Block (born c. 1962) is an American radio host and journalist. She is one of the hosts of NPR's All Things Considered news program.
Block was recording an interview in Chengdu, China when the area was struck by a 7.9 magnitude earthquake. Her coverage of the earthquake earned NPR a George Foster Peabody Award.
She is an alumni of Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Geneva.
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Michel Martin
Michel McQueen Martin is an Emmy Award–winning American journalist and correspondent for ABC News and National Public Radio. After ten years in print journalism, Martin has for the last 15 years become best known for her news broadcasting on national topics.
A Brooklyn, New York native, Michel Martin attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire as part of the third class of females to graduate from the formerly all-male school. In 1980, Martin graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College of Harvard University, then pursued post graduate work at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington D.C.
After working the local news beat for The Washington Post and becoming White House correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Martin joined ABC News in 1992. At ABC, Martin has reported for Nightline, and was awarded an Emmy for a report that aired on Day One. In 2001, she hosted the PBS show Life 360. Since April 2007, she has hosted Tell Me More for National Public Radio. As the host of Tell Me More, Martin focuses heavily on topics of race, religion, and spirituality.
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Michele Norris
Michele L. Norris (English pronunciation: /ˈmiːʃɛl ˈnɔrɪs/ MEE-shel NOR-iss; born September 7, 1961) is an American radio journalist and current host of the National Public Radio (NPR) evening news program All Things Considered since December 9, 2002. She is the first African American female host for NPR.
Norris was born in Minnesota to Betty and Belvin Norris Jr. She attended Washburn High School in Minneapolis, and went on to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she studied electrical engineering, and later the University of Minnesota where she received an honorary degree in journalism in 2005.
Norris was a correspondent for ABC News from 1993 to 2002. She wrote for The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. In 1990, while at The Washington Post, Norris received the Livingston Award for articles she wrote about the life of a six-year-old boy who lived with a crack-addicted mother in a crack house. In 2002, Norris won an Emmy Award. In 2009 the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) awarded Norris its Journalist of the Year award.
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Neal Conan
Neal Conan (born November 1949,Beirut, Lebanon) is an American radio journalist, producer, editor, and correspondent. He is senior host of the National Public Radio talk show Talk of the Nation.
During the 1991 Gulf War Conan was detained by the Iraqi Republican Guard. Conan has hosted Talk of the Nation since 2001.
Conan was featured as a minor character in the 1988 Marvel Comics X-Men crossover series Fall of the Mutants, and has featured sporadically in that comic book as a sympathetic journalist over the years.
Conan is married to Liane Hansen, former host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday. They have a son and a daughter. Hansen revealed in April 2011 that she and Conan are divorcing.
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Nina Totenberg
Nina Totenberg (pronounced /ˈniːnə ˈtoʊtənbɜrɡ/; born January 14, 1944) is an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) focusing primarily on the activities and politics of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her reports air regularly on NPR's newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. She is also a panelist on the syndicated TV political commentary show Inside Washington.
Newsweek Magazine calls her "the creme de la creme" of NPR, and Vanity Fair refers to her as "Queen of the Leaks". She is the dean of the Supreme Court press corps and has won every major broadcast journalism award for both her explanatory pieces and her scoops.
Among her scoops was her groundbreaking report of sexual harassment allegations made against Clarence Thomas by University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill, leading the Senate Judiciary Committee to re-open Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Previously, in 1986, she broke the story that Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg had smoked marijuana, leading Ginsburg to withdraw his name. And in 1977, she reported on secret Supreme Court deliberations relating to the Watergate scandal.
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Noah Adams
Noah Adams is an American broadcast journalist and author, known primarily for his more than thirty years of experience on National Public Radio. A former co-host of the daily All Things Considered program, he is currently the senior correspondent at the network's National Desk. As a bestselling author, Adams' books tend to document a full year in his life, specifically as that year relates to a particular passion or research project. Adams has also dabbled in major documentary projects, such as Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown in 1981. The program, which he wrote and narrated, earned him the Prix Italia, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and the Major Armstrong Award.
Adams was the host of the nationally syndicated Minnesota Public Radio variety show Good Evening, created in 1987 to replace A Prairie Home Companion after that show left the air. Good Evening ran for less than a year before being canceled; A Prairie Home Companion returned after a several-year hiatus.
Adams was born in Ashland, Kentucky and is a graduate of Morehead State University. He is married to Neenah Ellis, public radio producer and general manager of WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where they both make their home.
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Nordstrom Sisters
The Nordstrom Sisters were an American cabaret act which performed internationally from 1931 to 1976.
Dagmar Nordstrom (1903 – 1976) the younger of the two sisters was a composer, arranger and the pianist of the duo. She wrote the music of Remembering You, a fox trot popular in the 1940s and released on records.
Sigfred Nordstrom (1893 – 1980), the elder sister, sang the lead and was the widow of Samuel Ferebee Williams (1883–1931), a confectionery executive who was the originator of the Tootsie Roll. They were married in 1919. Williams died in October 1931.
Originally from Chicago, the sisters were of Swedish and Norwegian extraction. They were frequently billed as society performers. These international cabaret singers were often styled as The Misses Nordstrom or introduced as those Park Avenue darlings, the Nordstrom Sisters. Their songs were full of sexual innuendo and double entendre.
The pair lived in London for a year in 1939, when they were the resident performers at The Ritz. They were often featured onboard transatlantic ocean liners favouring the Norwegian America Line and the Cunard Line. They were always booked in first class state rooms and took their automobile aboard ship as part of their compensation package. They would celebrate as the cars were first out of the hold of the ship. Everything they needed on the continent was packed in the car, and they were on their way as others were still waiting for their trunks. They sailed on the MS Sagafjord for her maiden round-the-world voyage. They always spent the month of October in Bad Gastein for the baths.[citation needed]
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Peter Cincotti
Peter Cincotti (born July 11, 1983, New York City) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He attended the Horace Mann School and Columbia University.[citation needed]
Cincotti started playing a toy piano at the age of three. While in high school, he regularly performed at clubs throughout Manhattan and performed at the White House. At the 2000 Montreux Jazz Festival, he won an award for a rendition of Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia." In 2002, he reached No. 1 on the Billboard Traditional jazz Charts, the youngest solo artist to do so to date.
Cincotti appeared in a small role in the 2004 Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea and contributed to the film's soundtrack. He also had a small role as the Piano Player in the Hayden Planetarium in Spider-Man 2. His song "December Boys" is featured in the 2007 film December Boys, starring Daniel Radcliffe.
His self-titled debut album is a compilation of traditional jazz songs, while his second album, On the Moon, featured some of the artist's own songs. His latest work, East of Angel Town, features all original works by the artist and was released in 2007 in Europe and in January 2009 in USA.
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Peter Sagal
Peter Sagal (born January 31, 1965) is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor, and host of the National Public Radio game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. He is originally from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, although he currently resides in Oak Park, Illinois. Sagal attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also was a contestant on Jeopardy in April 1988, but finished second in his only game.
Sagal is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine's "True-Life Tales" column, beginning with a column entitled "He Goes Down Looking," which appeared in the August 6, 2006 issue. He was also a guest movie critic on the television show Ebert & Roeper in the December 2, 2006, episode. He has a column about running equipment in Runner's World and has also written for the Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, and other publications. His book The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) was published in October 2007 by HarperCollins.
In April 2007, his play Denial received its New York premiere at the Metropolitan Playhouse on the Lower East Side. The play, which portrays a Jewish lawyer who represents a Holocaust denier, has also been recorded by the L.A. Theatre Works company. Sagal is also credited as co-writer of the movie Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.
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Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Carson began her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. That so-called sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the surface to the depths.
Late in the 1950s Carson turned her attention to conservation, especially environmental problems she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented share of the American people. Although Silent Spring met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides, and it inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.
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Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. (born May 27, 1935) is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality. Ramsey Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received seven gold records and three Grammy Awards so far in his career.
Ramsey Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ramsey Lewis, Sr. and Pauline Lewis. Lewis began taking piano lessons at the age of four. At 15 he joined his first jazz band, The Cleffs. The seven-piece group provided Lewis his first involvement with jazz; he would later join Cleffs drummer Isaac "Redd" Holt and bassist Eldee Young to form the Ramsey Lewis Trio. Lewis is a graduate of DePaul University.
The trio started as primarily a jazz unit and released their first album, Ramsey Lewis And The Gentlemen of Swing, in 1956. Following their 1965 hit "The In Crowd" (the single reached #5 on the pop charts, and the album #2) they concentrated more on pop material. Young and Holt left in 1966 to form Young-Holt Unlimited and were replaced by Cleveland Eaton and Maurice White. White left to form Earth, Wind & Fire was replaced by Morris Jennings in 1970. Later, Frankie Donaldson and Bill Dickens replaced Jennings and Eaton; Felton Crews also appeared on many 1980's releases.
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Renée Montagne
Renée Montagne (pronounced /rəˈneɪ mɒnˈteɪn/) is an American radio journalist and the current co-host (with Steve Inskeep) of National Public Radio's weekday morning newsmagazine, Morning Edition. Montagne and Inskeep replaced long time host Bob Edwards, initially as interim replacements in May 2004. Montagne had served as a correspondent and occasional host since 1989. She usually broadcasts from NPR West in Culver City, California, a Los Angeles suburb.
Montagne was born in December 1948 in Oceanside, California, into a Marine Corps family. As is common in the lives of children of career military families, she moved a lot while growing up, including living in Hawaii and various places on the West Coast. Montagne graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973 with a degree in English.
Montagne got her start in radio as news director for KPOO community radio in San Francisco while attending UC-Berkeley. She also worked for Pacific News Service in San Francisco.
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Robert Siegel
Robert Siegel is an American radio journalist best known as host of the National Public Radio evening news broadcast All Things Considered.
Siegel's first professional broadcasting job was at WBLI in Babylon, New York where he "did morning newscasts and a show that was part phone-ins, part Top Forty, all under the pseudonym Bob Charles." After a year at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Siegel left academia for good and worked for WRVR in New York from 1971 to 1976.
Siegel was hired as a newscaster for NPR in Washington, D.C., in 1976, and he has held various news and production jobs at NPR since then. Since 1987, he has been a host of All Things Considered. He took a short break in 1992 to host Talk of the Nation, NPR's call-in talk show.
In 2009, Siegel appeared in director James Kerwin's scifi noir film Yesterday Was a Lie.
On Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, Siegel was presented with Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism by the Journalism School of Columbia University.
Siegel grew up in New York City, the son of Joseph, a commercial education teacher, and Edith, a secretary at Stuyvesant High School. After graduating in 1964 from Stuyvesant, Siegel studied at Columbia University, graduating in 1968. During this time he was an anchor for the reporting of the 1968 Columbia demonstrations at the college radio station, WKCR-FM.
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Scott Simon
Scott Simon (born March 16, 1952) is an American journalist and the host of Weekend Edition Saturday on National Public Radio.
Simon was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of comedian Ernie Simon and actress Patricia Lyons, and brother to a sister who died at a young age. He grew up in major cities across the United States and Canada, including Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C. After his father died, his mother married Ralph G. Newman, a former minor league baseball player and American Civil War scholar and author who ran the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago.
Simon's first book, Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan, was published in the spring of 2000, and his second, Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball, was published in 2002. Simon has written a book – Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption – about his family's experiences. He is also the author of two novels: Pretty Birds (2005) and Windy City: A Novel of Politics (2008).
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Steve Inskeep
Steve Inskeep (pronounced /ˈɪnskiːp/), born (1968-06-16) June 16, 1968 (age 44), is one of the current hosts of Morning Edition on National Public Radio. He, along with co-host Renée Montagne, were assigned as interim hosts to succeed Bob Edwards after NPR reassigned Edwards to Senior Correspondent after April 30, 2004. Inskeep and Montagne were officially named hosts of Morning Edition in December 2004. Prior to being host of Morning Edition, he was NPR's transportation correspondent and the host of Weekend All Things Considered.
Inskeep is the author of Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi published in October 2011. The book looks at changes in Karachi, Pakistan as it grew dramatically in the second half of the Twentieth Century. Inskeep has made several trips to Pakistan in his role at NPR.
Inskeep was raised in Carmel, Indiana, and graduated from Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, in 1990. His first professional experience in radio was a stint as a sportscaster at WMKY-FM in Morehead.
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Susan Stamberg
Susan Stamberg (born September 7, 1938) is an American radio journalist who is currently a Special Correspondent for National Public Radio and guest host for Weekend Edition Saturday.
Stamberg was born in Newark, New Jersey. She became the first woman to be a full-time anchor of a national nightly news broadcast in the United States when she became one of the first hosts of All Things Considered. Beginning in 1972, Stamberg served as co-host of the evening news magazine for 14 years. She was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award (CPB). In 1994, Stamberg was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame, and later into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1996.
Each Thanksgiving since 1971, Stamberg provides NPR listeners with her mother-in-law's recipe for a cranberry relish sauce that is unusual in having horseradish as one of its principal ingredients. The recipe is known as Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish Recipe.
One of her most memorable interviews was with Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman. Stamberg argued with Friedman over the merits of the free market, claiming her conversations with "Russian cabbies" on the streets of New York had showed that the expatriates preferred life in the former Communist country to "how dreadfully tough their lives are here (the United States)." Friedman dismissed Stamberg's observation, contending, "I'm saying if you really want to know what they really believe about the relative merits of the two systems, see what they do, not what they say. And what they do is to stay here. They don't go back."
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Sylvia Poggioli
Sylvia Poggioli (English pronunciation: /ˈsɪlviə pəˈdʒoʊli/), born 19 May 1946, is an American radio reporter for National Public Radio. She is the network's senior European correspondent.
Poggioli was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she attended the Buckingham School, now Buckingham Browne & Nichols. She graduated from Harvard in 1968. She did post-graduate work at the University of Rome as a Fulbright Scholar. The selection of Rome was no coincidence, as she is the daughter of Italian anti-fascists who were forced to flee Italy under Mussolini, in the 1930s.
Beginning in 1971, Poggioli worked for Ansa, the Italian news service, on their English desk. She made her debut on NPR on September 4, 1982. She continued serving both Ansa and NPR for four years before leaving Ansa in 1986.
Poggioli eventually rose to European correspondent for NPR. Her radio career was interrupted in 1990 when she spent a year as a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
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Teddy Wilson
Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist. Described by critic Scott Yannow as "the definitive swing pianist", Wilson's sophisticated and elegant style was featured on the records of many of the biggest names in jazz including Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald. With Goodman, he was perhaps the first black musician to play in a racially integrated group. In addition to his extensive work as a sideman, Wilson also led his own groups and recording sessions from the late 1920s to the '80s.
Wilson was born in Austin, Texas, on November 24, 1912. He studied piano and violin at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. After working in the Lawrence "Speed" Webb band, with Louis Armstrong, and also understudying Earl Hines in Hines's Grand Terrace Cafe Orchestra, Wilson joined Benny Carter's Chocolate Dandies in 1933. In 1935, he joined the Benny Goodman Trio (which consisted of Goodman, Wilson and drummer Gene Krupa, later expanded to the Benny Goodman Quartet with the addition of Lionel Hampton). The trio performed during the big band's intermissions. By joining the trio, Wilson became the first black musician to perform in public with a previously all-white jazz group.
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Terry Gross
Terry Gross (born February 14, 1951 ) is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview format radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by National Public Radio.
Gross has won praise over the years for her low-key and friendly yet often probing interview style and for the diversity of her guests. She has a reputation for researching her guests' work largely the night before an interview, often asking them unexpected questions about their early career.
Gross grew up in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York in a Jewish family. She earned a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in communications from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. She began a teaching career, but said that she was "totally unequipped" for the job, and was fired after only six weeks.
Gross began her radio career in 1973 at WBFO, a public radio station in Buffalo, New York, where she had been volunteering. In 1975, she moved to WHYY-FM in Philadelphia to host and produce Fresh Air, which was a local interview program at the time. In 1985, Fresh Air with Terry Gross went national, being distributed weekly by NPR. It became a daily program two years later.
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Tom Ashbrook
Tom Ashbrook is an American journalist and radio broadcaster. He hosts the public radio call-in program, On Point.
Born in 1956 on a farm in Bloomington, Illinois, he studied American history at Yale University and Gandhi's independence movement at Andhra University in India. His family was so poor that he was forced to hitch a ride in a pig truck in order to get to Yale from Bloomington.
Ashbrook worked in Alaska as a surveyor and dynamiter of oil fields before leaving for Asia, where he spent a decade as a foreign correspondent in India, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. His first newspaper job was at the South China Morning Post. During the late 1980s, Ashbrook became foreign editor for The Boston Globe.
Ashbrook was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University during which time he decided to leave the Globe in 1996 and create an internet startup with college friend Rolly Rouse. This company eventually became http://www.homeportfolio.com/. Ashbrook wrote a book called The Leap about his experience in Internet entrepreneurship, and currently hosts the National Public Radio show On Point. Ashbrook underwent heart bypass surgery in November 2007 and was off air until January 2, 2008, when he discussed his medical journey in a show with his doctors and nurses.
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McPartland, Marian Filmography
Famous quotes by Marian McPartland:
"Everybody seems to think Madeleine sounds like Billie Holiday, ... I think that's OK, but it's really not all that important an observation. She sounds a little bit like Billie to me, but that's not anything to make a big deal about it."
"that evening with 30-year-old Jason Moran. It turns out they've played together before -- on McPartland's show, at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and on what McPartland calls ''several casual dates here and there."
"I've never known anyone that could do a ballad that slowly and keep it musical, keep it happening."
"sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker."
"Madeleine called me from Europe recently and was worried about whether we'd have rehearsal time before we go on, which, of course, we will. One thing I did ask of her was that she not bring a thick sheaf of music with her. I'm a terrible reader, so we'll pick tunes we both know,"
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- Love Is Here to Stay
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- I Could Have Told You
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- Billie's Bounce
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- Blood Count
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- Love You Madly
- [Conversation]
- Violets for Your Furs
- [Conversation]
- Cherry
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- There's No You
- [Conversation]
- Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
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- Shirley's Blues
- Conversation
- At Last
- Conversation
- My Funny Valentine
- Conversation
- Almost Blue
- Conversation
- Very Thought of You
- Conversation
- Gloomy Sunday
- Conversation
- You Don't Know What Love Is
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- They Didn't Believe Me
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- I'm in the Mood Again
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- Limbo Jazz
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- Josie
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- Mood Indigo
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- Star Eyes
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- Hesitation Blues
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- Things Ain't What They Used to Be
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- Chain Lightning
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- Black Friday
- A Foggy Day
- The Lady Is A Tramp
- I've Got The World On A String
- Manhattan
- Aunt Hagar's Blues
- Four Brothers
- Once In A While
- Just Squeeze Me
- Liza
- September Song
- Embraceable You
- Laura
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- There Will Never Be Another You
- Willow Weep For Me
- A Fine Romance
- Lullaby In Rhythm
- It's the Little Things That Mean So Much
- Conversation
- I'm Pulling Through
- Conversation
- Sweet Lorraine
- Conversation
- I Never Felt This Way Before
- Conversation
- Theme for Carmen
- Conversation
- As Time Goes By
- Conversation
- Carmen's Blues
- Conversation
- As Long as I Live
- Conversation
- I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
- Conversation
- I Hadn't Anyone Till You
- Conversation
- Embraceable You
- Conversation
- Old Devil Moon
- Groove Yard
- In My Life
- In the Days of Our Love
- Red Planet
- What's New
- Gone With the Wind
- Close Your Eyes
- For Dizzy
- Moon and Sand
- Naima
- Velas
- Ramblin'
- Singin' the Blues
- This Time the Dream's on Me
- A Fine Romance
- Willow Weep for Me
- Twilight World
- Clothed Woman
- Prelude to a Kiss
- The Duke
- Theme From Piano Jazz
- Love You Madly
- Easy Living
- Things Ain't What They Used to Be
- I Should Care
- My Funny Valentine
- Turn Around
- It's You or No One
- I'll Be Around
- Conversation
- Carousel Memories
- Conversation
- Re-Lax
- Conversation
- Handful of Keys
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- Gone With the Wind
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- Body and Soul
- Conversation
- A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
- Conversation
- This Time the Dream's on Me
- Conversation
- Delicate Balance
- Conversation
- Skylark
- Conversation
- Lover, Come Back to Me
- Conversation
- When Lights Are Low
- I'm in the Mood for Swing
- A Kiss From You
- Key Largo
- Another Time, Another Place
- Summer Serenade
- Doozy
- Lonely Woman
- Only Trust Your Heart
- Evening Star
- Easy Money
- Twilgiht World
- In the Days of Our Love
- Turn Around
- Close Enough for Love
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- Alfie
- Lonely Woman
- Blue in Green
- Afternoon in Paris
- Stranger in a Dream
- Blackberry Winter
- Jazz Waltz for a Friend
- Why?
- While We're Young
- Lullaby for a Lady
- Inner Circle
- I'll Be Around
- Trouble Is a Man
- Homework
- Where Are the Good Companions?
- It's So Peaceful in the Country
- Conversation 1
- September in the Rain
- Conversation 2
- In the Dark
- Conversation 3
- Comes Love
- Conversation 4
- For All We Know
- Conversation 5
- I Can't Get Started
- Conversation 6
- Don't Know Why
- Conversation 7
- Peace
- Conversation 8
- The Nearness of You
- Conversation 9
- Beautiful Friendship
- Conversation 10
- Love for Sale
- With You in Mind
- Stranger in a Dream
- Sweet and Lovely
- Coming Home Baby
- Tell Me
- Green Dolphon Street
- Straight No Chaser
- Baby You Should Know It
- The Gypsy in My Soul
- These Foolish Things
- Get Happy
- Strike Up the Band
- A Foggy Day
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- I've Got the World on a String
- Manhattan
- Aunt Hagens Blues
- Four Brothers
- Once in a While
- Conversation
- Milt's Rap
- Conversation
- All the Things You Are
- Conversation
- My One and Only Love
- Conversation
- Joshua
- Conversation
- Willow Weep for Me
- Conversation
- Old Man Time
- Conversation
- These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
- Conversation
- Stranger in a Dream
- Conversation
- How High the Moon
- Conversation
- Conversation
- Our Love Is Here to Stay
- Conversation
- My Silent Love
- Conversation
- My Shining Hour
- Conversation
- Lush Life
- Conversation
- Don't Fence Me In
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- I'll Take Romance
- Conversation
- September Song
- Conversation
- Waltz for Debby
- Conversation
- All of You
- Conversation
- All of You
- Conversation
- In Your Own Sweet Way
- Conversation, Demonstration: The Touch of Your Lips
- The Touch of Your Lips
- Conversation
- Reflections in D
- Conversation
- Days of Wine and Roses
- Conversation
- This Is All I Ask
- Conversation
- While We're Young
- Conversation
- I Love You
- Betty Washboard Rag
- Conversation
- Valse Marion
- Conversation
- Song For Marian (Margaret)
- Conversation
- You're Lucky To Me
- Conversation
- Charleston Rag
- Conversation
- Dream Rag
- Conversation
- For The Last Time Call Me Sweetheart
- Conversation
- Stars And Stripes Forever
- Conversation
- Falling In Love With Someone
- Conversation
- Kiss Me Again
- Conversation
- St. Louis Blues
- Conversation
- I'm Just Wild About Harry
- Conversation
- Little Gypsy Sweetheart
- Conversation
- Have You Met Miss Jones?
- Conversation
- What a Wonderful World
- Conversation
- Tangerine
- Conversation
- A Hundred Years From Today
- Conversation
- Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
- Conversation
- Echoes of Spring
- Conversation
- Someday You'll Be Sorry
- Conversation
- The Talk of the Town
- Conversation
- Runnin' Wild
- Conversation
- You and the Night and the Music
- Windows
- Threnody (A Lament)
- Day Dream
- Red Planet
- Pretty Women
- Time and Time Again
- Blood Count
- Meditation
- Lonely Woman
- O Grande Amor
- Silent Pool
- I Hear Music
- Street of Dreams
- I Thought About You
- Stella by Starlight
- Falling in Love With Love
- Last Night When We Were Young
- In Your Own Sweet Way
- New Orleans
- Tickle Toe
- Two for the Road
- Symphony
- Cymbalism
- Things Ain't What They Used to Be
- Jeepers Creepers
- I've Got A Crush On You
- Some Time Ago
- It's You Or No One
- Just Friends
- Twilight World
- Lullaby Of The Leaves
- Chrysalis (An Improvisation)
- Gone With The Wind
- Marian McPartland
- There Will Never Be Another You
- Lady Be Good
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- I Love You
- Willow Weep for Me
- Windows
- In the Days of Our Love
- Cotton Tail
- Here's That Rainy Day
- On Green Dolphin Street
- Oleo
- Tell Me a Bedtime Story
- It Never Entered My Mind
- No Trumps
- Wind Flower
- I Won't Dance
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
- Matrix
- Time and Time Again
- From This Moment On
- Emily
- Sweet and Lovely
- Ambiance
- You and the Night and the Music
- If You Could See Me Now
- Lullaby of the Leaves
- No Greater Love
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- Without You
- The Things We Did Last Summer
- All in Love Is Fair
- Willow Creek
- Long Ago and Far Away
- Someday I'll Find You
- I Saw Stars
- Blood Count
- I've Got a Crush on You
- Summer Song
- Royal Garden Blues
- Sentimental Journey
- Blue Prelude
- Dinah
- Basin Street Blues
- When You Wish Upon a Star
- Avalon
- Perdido
- Willow Weep for Me
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- Wolverine Blues
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Helicopter raid fails to rescue agent 'Denis Allex' from Islamist group al-Shabaab, as French combat pilot killed in Mali. French secret service hostage 'Denis Allex' pictured in Somalia in October 2012. Photograph. SITE Monitoring Service/AFP/Getty Images. A French hostage and two French soldiers have been killed during a failed secret service rescue mission in Somalia ... The group said it had also captured a wounded French commando ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
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14 Jan 2013
Bamako/Paris - French fighter jets pounded Islamist rebel strongholds deep in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the capital, Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al-Qaeda-linked insurgents from the country’s north ... Defence Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said France’s intervention on Friday prevented the advancing rebels from seizing Bamako and vowed air strikes would continue ... – ... Doubt....(size: 6.6Kb)
photo: AP / Kevin Frayer
14 Jan 2013
Allahabad. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims led by naked, ash-covered holy men streamed into the sacred river Ganges on Monday at the start of the world's biggest religious festival. The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings ... "I am ecstatic ... Agence France-Presse ....(size: 4.2Kb)
photo: US Navy / MCS2 Gretchen Albrecht
13 Jan 2013
The draft version of the US National Climate Assessment, released on Friday, makes remarkable reading – not just for Americans but for all humanity. Put together by a special panel of more than 240 scientists, the federally commissioned report reveals that the US is already reeling under the impact of global warming ... Nor is there any doubt about the cause of these rising temperatures ... A bitter struggle lies ahead ... Sender's name ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
photo: White House / Pete Souza
14 Jan 2013
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama issued a strong warning to Republicans on Monday that he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling or allow Republicans to use it as a bargaining chip. "To even entertain the idea of the United States of America not paying our bills is irresponsible. It's absurd," Obama said in a press conference ... "They will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the economy," Obama said ... Also on HuffPost ... ....(size: 10.3Kb)
The Washington Post
12 Jan 2013
For years, Marian McPartland was defined by an offhand comment that critic Leonard Feather made in the jazz magazine Down Beat in 1951. McPartland, wrote the British-born Feather, had “three hopeless strikes against her” ... The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland’ by Paul De Barros ... After the McPartlands moved to New York in 1950, Marian began to flourish ... The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland....(size: 6.4Kb)
Wall Street Journal
04 Jan 2013
By PAMELA FIORI. Enlarge Image. Close. IT MEASURES 7 FEET long and 5 feet wide, weighs 1,182 pounds (roughly the same as a 6-month-old baby elephant) and eats up valuable space in my living room. I use it, if I'm being honest, three or so hours a week ... Guilty pleasures come in all forms. Mine is a concert grand piano ... Famous Baldwinites include Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Marian McPartland, Liberace and Dave Brubeck ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)
The State
30 Dec 2012
Consider the case of Marian McPartland, pianist, composer and longtime host of NPR’s peerless “Piano Jazz” series ... (McPartland, 94, retired as host last year, though she remains the show’s artistic director.) ... Such is an example of Marian McPartland’s shrewd, self-deprecating wit, on display throughout “Shall We Play That One Together?,” as are her flashes of pique and bruised vanity....(size: 4.1Kb)
All About Jazz
18 Dec 2012
View All123456Next » ... London represented a significant milestone for all these musicians. The four musicians grinned broadly as they posed for a photo outside Pizza Express on Dean Street, and little wonder ... Chapter Index ... Perceptions of Asian Jazz/All-Stars Pedigree ... It doesn't work both ways ... Asian guys, it seems, can also play jazz ... Monteiro for his part has had the honor of appearing on pianist Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz show....(size: 8.4Kb)
The Examiner
11 Dec 2012
On Dec ... On Dec ... It’s truly amazing ... I was introduced to what would become The Alabasters by jazz pianist Marian McPartland, who was a close friends of my mom’s. I was only 14 but Marian recognized my guitar playing ability at a Thanksgiving dinner at her house with her husband Jimmy, who were both very supportive of me. Marian introduced me to a drummer named Marc Ziner who was starting a group with a view to work and make money ... 6th show....(size: 6.4Kb)
Philadelphia Daily News
11 Dec 2012
Peter Dobrin, Inquirer Classical Music Critic. Posted. Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 3.01 AM. In these parts, it's not Christmastime until the man with the white beard says so. That would be Peter Nero ... Nero is the end of the line ... It's a lovely moment, and the journey there exposes Nero's piano as more freewheeling and inventive than Ahmad Jamal's, and in the same league of tastefulness as Marian McPartland in her prime. Entertainment Today....(size: 17.9Kb)
The New York Times
06 Dec 2012
One of the most celebrated jazz impresarios in the country is starting over, booking a new series of concerts at Iridium in Midtown Manhattan after stepping down from his longtime post at Jazz at Lincoln Center ... In 2000 Wynton Marsalis recruited Mr ... But Mr. Barkan, 66, resigned in October after Mr ... Barkan said ... The series starts Jan ... Mr ... Related Posts ... Marian McPartland Stepping Away From Keyboard on Her ‘Piano Jazz’ Radio Show ... ....(size: 9.2Kb)
my SA
05 Dec 2012
With deluxe jazz and a couple of holiday parties, including one with an ugly-Christmas-sweater contest, it's time to get moving. Jackie, Butch and jazz galore. The University of the Incarnate Word Jazz Ensemble, with Jim Waller at the helm, knows how to stage a blowout jazz concert ... Tickets, $5-$75, are available at www.uiwjazz.com and at the door ... A new one, recorded with piano legend Marian McPartland, is slated for release soon....(size: 3.8Kb)
noodls
21 Nov 2012
It is with great sadness, that we mourn the loss of one of our long-time Artists and friend, Pete La Roca Sims. Pete La Roca (Peter Sims) was born on April 7, 1938 in New York City ... Between 1957 and 1968 he played with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Slide Hampton, the John Coltrane Quartet, Marian McPartland, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Mose Allison, Charles Lloyd, Paul Bley, and Steve Kühn, among others ... An inspiration ... distributed by....(size: 3.3Kb)
noodls
20 Nov 2012
It is with great sadness, that we mourn the loss of one of our long-time Artists and friend, Pete La Roca Sims. Pete La Roca (Peter Sims) was born on April 7, 1938 in New York City ... Between 1957 and 1968 he played with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Slide Hampton, the John Coltrane Quartet, Marian McPartland, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Mose Allison, Charles Lloyd, Paul Bley, and Steve Kühn, among others ... An inspiration ... distributed by....(size: 3.3Kb)
All About Jazz
13 Nov 2012
While female jazz vocalists outnumber male jazz vocalists five to one, it would be a fallacy to believe there is not a wealth of talent among the men singers ... Proulx, who has previously released the uniformly excellent Moon and Sand (2006) and Baker's Dozen ... Pianist Bill Cunliffe shares production and song arrangement services with Proulx, while playing piano on Marian McPartland's "In The Days of Our Love." ... Track Listing ... Personnel....(size: 3.1Kb)
The Washington Post
29 Oct 2012
Thursday, NOV. 1. Thurgood Marshall Remembered, a National Park Service ranger discusses the life of the 20th-century Supreme Court associate justice. 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Lincoln Memorial, 23rd Street NW and West Potomac Park. Free ... Loading... Recommend ... NW. $3 ... $15 ... “Shall We Play That One Together?,” Paul de Barros reads from and discusses his biography of jazz piano legend Marian McPartland, a question-and-answer session follows....(size: 3.8Kb)
The State
28 Oct 2012
Email event details along with a contact phone number to books@thestate.com. BOOK SIGNING & RECEPTION. 2-4 p.m. today at the if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St. The gallery celebrates the release of a new book featuring artists from the South, 18 of whom are represented by the gallery. Call (803) 238-2351. BOOK SIGNING. 6 p.m ... Video from around the world. HALLOWEEN BOOK BINGO ... Paul de Barros will read from and sign copies of âMarian McPartland....(size: 2.5Kb)
| Marian McPartland | |
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 St. Joseph's Villa school for disadvantaged children, 1975 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Margaret Marian Turner |
| Born | (1918-03-20) March 20, 1918 (age 94) |
| Origin | Slough, England, UK |
| Genres | Classical jazz Cool jazz Bebop Mainstream jazz Swing music Post bop Standards |
| Occupations | Pianist Radio host Writer Composer |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Years active | 1938–present |
| Labels | Halcyon Records Concord Jazz Jazz Alliance Bainbridge Records Savoy Records Capitol Records RCA Records |
| Associated acts | Jimmy McPartland Hickory House Trio |
| Notable instruments | |
| Baldwin SF10 Artist Grand [1] | |
Margaret Marian McPartland, OBE (née Turner;[2] born March 20, 1918) is an English-born jazz pianist, composer, writer, and was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio until she stepped down[3] on November 10, 2011.
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Early life[link]
Marian Turner was a musical prodigy from the time she could sit at the piano, about the age of three. She studied classical music and the violin, in addition to the piano.
Career[link]
She pursued classical studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Much to the dismay of her family, she developed a love for American jazz and musicians such as Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, Mary Lou Williams, and many others. In 1938, despite her family's efforts to keep her at Guildhall, Marian left to join Billy Mayerl's Claviers, a four-piano vaudeville act, performing under the stage name of Marian Page. The group toured throughout Europe during World War II, entertaining Allied troops.
While touring with USO shows in Belgium, she met and began performing with Chicago cornetist Jimmy McPartland in 1944. The couple soon married, playing at their own military base wedding in Germany.
After the war, they moved to Chicago to be near Jimmy's family. Then, in 1949, the McPartlands settled in Manhattan, living in an apartment in the same building as the Nordstrom Sisters. With Jimmy's help and encouragement, Marian started her own trio which enjoyed a long residency at a New York City jazz club, the Hickory House, during 1952-1960. The drummer Joe Morello was a member of the group until he departed to join Dave Brubeck's Quartet. She also played at The Embers.[4]
In the 1953-1954 season, McPartland appeared as a regular on NBC's Judge for Yourself quiz program emceed by Fred Allen, with Dennis James as the announcer.[5]
After many years of recording for labels such as Capitol, Savoy, Argo, Sesac, Time, and Dot, in 1969 she founded her own record label, Halcyon Records, before having a long association with the Concord Jazz label.
Radio career[link]
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Marian McPartland interviews Ramsey Lewis on her radio show, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz in 2009
In 1964, Marian McPartland launched a new venture on WBAI-FM (New York City), conducting a weekly radio program that featured recordings and interviews with guests. Pacifica Radio's West Coast stations also carried this series, which paved the way for Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, a National Public Radio series that began on June 4, 1978. It is the longest-running cultural program on NPR as well as being one of the longest-running jazz programs ever produced on public radio.
Several programs in the new series, which features McPartland at the keyboard with guest performers (usually pianists), have been released on CD by the Concord Records label. McPartland celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the NPR series with a live taping at the Kennedy Center for which Peter Cincotti was the guest.
After not having recorded a new show since September 2010, NPR announced on November 10, 2011 that Ms. McPartland is stepping down as host of Piano Jazz.
Awards and compositions[link]
Marian was awarded a Grammy in 2004, a Trustees' Lifetime Achievement Award, for her work as an educator, writer, and host of NPR Radio's long-running Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. Although a master at adapting to her guest's musical styles and having a well-known affinity for beautiful and harmonically-rich ballads, she also has recorded many tunes of her own. Her compositions include "Ambiance", "There'll Be Other Times", "With You In Mind", "Twilight World", and "In the Days of Our Love".
Just before her 90th birthday, she composed and performed a symphonic piece, A Portrait of Rachel Carson to mark the centennial of the environmental pioneer.[6]
She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.[7]
Musical style[link]
McPartland's encyclopedic knowledge of jazz standards, highly musical ear, involvement in over 60 years of evolving jazz styles, and rich experience blending with radio guests[8] has led to a musical style that has been described as: "flexible and complex, and almost impossible to pigeonhole".[9] She is known as a harmonically and rhythmically complex and inventive improviser: "She was never content to be in one place, and always kept improving. She has great ears and great harmonics. Because of her ear, she can go into two or three different keys in a tune and shift with no problem."[10]
She also is a synesthete, associating different musical keys with colors, stating that: "The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue".[11]
Awards[link]
Honorary degrees[link]
- Ithaca College
- Hamilton College
- Union College
- Bates College
- Bowling Green University
- University of South Carolina
- Eastman School of Music
- Berklee College of Music
- City University of New York
Other awards[link]
- Down Beat Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2007 - National Radio Hall of Fame
- 2006 - Long Island Music Hall of Fame induction
- 2004 - Grammy Trustees Award from the Recording Academy
- 2001 - American Eagle Award from the National Music Council
- 2001 - Gracie Allen Award from the American Women in Radio and Television
- 2000 - NEA Jazz Masters Award
- 2000 - Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Award
- 1991 - ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award
- 1986 - International Jazz Association of Jazz Education Hall of Fame induction
- 1983 - Peabody Award
Notes[link]
- ^ http://www.gibson.com/whatsnew/pressrelease/2003/mar20a.html
- ^ Hasson, Claire Marian McPartland: Jazz Pianist: An Overview of a Career. PhD Thesis. Retrieved on 2008-08-12.
- ^ Marian McPartland Stepping Away From Keyboard on Her ‘Piano Jazz’ Radio Show Retrieved on 2011-12-20.
- ^ Jazz spots such as the Hickory House and The Embers were thriving night clubs.
- ^ Judge for Yourself in Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, A Complete Directory to Prime Time Cable and Network TV Shows , 1946 - Present, p. 622. New York: Random House Publishing, 2003. http://books.google.com/books?id=DyS3t8z6_ckC&pg=PA622&lpg=PA622&dq=Judge+for+Yourself+(1953+TV+series)#v=onepage&q=Judge%20for%20Yourself%20(1953%20TV%20series)&f=false. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
- ^ Day, Jeffrey (2007-11-13). Jazz great McPartland to unveil symphonic piece on Rachel Carson. [popmatters.com]. Retrieved on 2009-04-26.
- ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59282. p. 24. 31 December 2009.
- ^ Hasson, Claire. A Discussion Of Marian McPartland's Style in Marian McPartland: Jazz Pianist: An Overview of a Career
- ^ MacFadyen, J. Tevere (1985) Liner notes to Marian McPartland: Willow Creek And Other Ballads, Concord Jazz Inc.
- ^ Zych, D. (1997) 'Marian McPartland: True Devotion', JazzTimes, vol. 27, no. 8, October, pp. 31-37.
- ^ Balliett, W. (1977) New York Notes: A Journal Of Jazz In The Seventies, New York: Da Capo Press Inc. p. 289.
External links[link]
- The Sweet and Lovely Legacy of Marian McPartland
- Marian McPartland's Official Facebook Page
- Marian McPartland bio
- Piano Jazz: Meet Marian McPartland
- Marian McPartland, Grande Dame of 'Piano Jazz'
- NPR's version of Marian McPartland's biography
- "Marian McPartland Plays Ornette Coleman (and Everything Else!") by Ted Gioia, Jazz.com.
- "Interview with Marian McPartland" by Arnold Jay Smith, Jazz.com.
- "Marian McPartland, Jazz Pianist: An Overview Of A Musical Career"
- "ETV Radio celebrates 90th birthday of jazz legend Marian McPartland"
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