Scottish poet Helen Adam (1907 - 1993) reads and discusses her ballads and other poetic efforts with Susan Howe and Charles Ruas. Adam was born in Glasgow, Scotland, educated at Nairnshire and Edinburgh University, worked as a journalist in Edinburgh and London, and moved with her family to the US in 1939, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1949. She is the author of Ballads (White Rabbit Press) and Counting out rhyme (published by Kirby Congdon and Ralph Simmons), and has written a...
Topics: Adam, Helen., Howe, Susan., Ruas, Charles., Poetry, Modern., Women poets, American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Charles Ruas interviews Meredith Monk about the adaptation of her opera Quarry for radio. Meredith Monk is an American composer, singer, director and choreographer who is a pioneer in what is now called interdisciplinary performance. The theater piece Quarry was first performed at the off-Broadway theater, La MaMa, in New York. The story is about the rise of dictatorship through the eyes of a child. Ruas and Monk discuss the difference between the live and radio performance, as well as her...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Monk, Meredith., Ruas, Charles., Opera.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Charles Ruas discusses Gertrude Stein with Janet Hobhouse, author of a 1976 biography of Stein entitled "Everybody Who Was Anybody", recorded May 11, 1976. Hobhouse discusses the influence of automatic writing on Gertrude Stein's work and about the origins of her novel The Making of Americans. Originally aired as part 8 of a series on Stein's "The Making of Americans" during the WBAI Marathon of May 1976. The other episodes of this "mini-marathon" featured excerpts...
Topics: Hobhouse, Janet, 1948-1991, Ruas, Charles., Women authors, Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946, American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Charles Ruas interviews Meredith Monk about the adaptation of her opera Quarry for radio. Meredith Monk is an American composer, singer, director and choreographer who is a pioneer in what is now called interdisciplinary performance. The theater piece Quarry was first performed at the off-Broadway theater, La MaMa, in New York. The story is about the rise of dictatorship through the eyes of a child. Ruas and Monk discuss the difference between the live and radio performance, as well as her...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Monk, Meredith., Ruas, Charles., Opera.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A memorial program to the late poet and playwright Violet Ranney "V.R." "Bunny" Lang (1924-1956). WBAI's Charles Ruas and Susan Howe present reminiscences and interviews with novelist Alison Lurie, poets John Ashbery and Robert Merrill, novelist Dee Wells, and Irish writer and critic Mary Manning, plus a performance of Lang's last play in verse, "I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia," by Marian Seldes, Earle Hyman, Ruth Ford and Charles Ruas (duplicate recording of play:...
Topics: Lang, V. R., 1924-1956, Ashbery, John., MERRILL, ROBERT., Wells, Dee., Manning, Mary., Seldes,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A memorial program to the late poet and playwright Violet Ranney "V.R." "Bunny" Lang (1924-1956). WBAI's Charles Ruas and Susan Howe present reminiscences and interviews with novelist Alison Lurie, poets John Ashbery and Robert Merrill, novelist Dee Wells, and Irish writer and critic Mary Manning, plus a performance of Lang's last play in verse, "I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia," by Marian Seldes, Earle Hyman, Ruth Ford and Charles Ruas (duplicate recording of play:...
Topics: Lang, V. R., 1924-1956, Ashbery, John., MERRILL, ROBERT., Wells, Dee., Manning, Mary., Seldes,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
