Found 5 collections related to Popular music

The collection consists of episodes of the weekly half-hour television program, John's Cabaret, which has aired on the New York public access channel, Metro Access, dating back to 1980. In each episode, John Wallowitch answers live call-in requests to perform songs by composers such as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Noel Coward, Sammy Cahn, Michael Leonard, Burton Lane, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, and Wallowitch himself. Special guests have included: Rita Gam, Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Gerald McRaney, Hal Holbrook, Eric Comstock, Lynn Lobban, Carol Channing, Tony Monte, Berri Blair, Christopher Gines, Claiborne Cary, Audrey Morris, Carol Shedlin, Layne Littlepage, Yvonne Sherwell, Jane Scheckter, Gerta Grunen, Bob Ost, Richard Morris, James Gavin, Joan Shepard, Gregory Moore, and Bertram Ross. less

The collection consists of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts of primarily classical music. The largest portion of the collection consists of broadcast of The New York Philharmonic, with selected concerts from 1952-1963. Conductors of the New York Philharmonic concerts on these recordings include Franco Autori, Leonard Bernstein, Guido Cantelli, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Paul Paray, George Szell, and Bruno Walter. Guest soloists include Claudio Arrau, Robert Casadesus, Van Cliburn, Clifford Curzon, Rudolf Firkušný, Zino Francescatti, Jascha Heifetz, Myra Hess, Byron Janis, Martha Lipton, Artur Rubinstein, Irmgard Seefried, Rudolf Serkin, and Richard Tucker. less

Lennie Hayton was a jazz pianist, composer, conductor, and arranger active from the 1920's through the 1960's. Hayton worked on a number of radio programs, including Lucky Strike's Your Hit Parade (1935), and the Ed Wynn Show (1936). He was musical director of MGM from 1940 to 1953, and worked on many movies as an arranger, conductor, or musical director. Hayton married Lena Horne in 1947, and worked with her as a manager-pianist-arranger. The collection contains selections of Hayton's work on radio and in the studio, as well as recordings of Lena Horne and other performers. Recordings of his radio work include selected episodes of Lucky Strike Your Hit Parade, Ed Wynn Show, Chesterfield's Music that satisfies, and Ipana's Hour of Smiles programs. Included in the collection are recordings of Lena Horne on studio acetates, as well as live radio recordings. Also included in the collection are radio recordings of both popular and classical music performances that Hayton owned. less

The collection consists of noncommercial recordings primarily of opera performances from 1936 to 1981 by major American and European houses, collected and in many cases recorded by Richard McGuinn. Opera houses represented include the Bayreuth Festival, Covent Garden, La Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, San Francisco Opera, and the Vienna State Opera. The recordings were privately made in-house or from radio broadcasts. less

Alan Hunter (born 1957) is a television and radio personality and actor who was one of the original five video jockeys (VJs) on the MTV (Music Television) network when it began broadcasting in 1981. The Alan Hunter MTV video recordings, dating from 1979 to 2007 (bulk dates 1981 to 1987), document mainly the early years of MTV and 1980s popular music and culture in general, as well as Hunter's career before and after his time with the network. The collection consists primarily of home recordings of daily MTV programming, series, documentaries, and specials. Recordings apart from MTV include interviews with Hunter, and his acting, television hosting, radio, and commercial appearances. less