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A Conversation with Richard Rodgers

A Conversation with Richard Rodgers Arnold MIchAelIs A c onversation with r ichard r odgers Arnold Michaelis (1916–97) was an independent producer/documen- tarian working in new York from the late 1950s on. An executive with columbia records, he also taught at new York University and served as host-writer-producer of Music Magazine on WQXr, the radio station of the New York Times. In addition to many commercial radio and televi- sion programs, he produced such shows as cBs’s Invitation to Learning, Of Men and Books, For the Love of Music, and Adlai Stevenson Reports. he sought, as he put it, “to record for today and posterity, the flavor of the thinking and the essence of the ideas of the men and women whose lives will be studied by future generations.” his broad interests allowed him to ask probing and intelligent ques- tions of world leaders, politicians, athletes, writers, actors, and musi- cians. A few of his many interviews were with Bernard Baruch, Jack Benny, norman corwin, Indira Gandhi, Arthur Grumiaux, dr. Martin l uther King Jr., Jackie r obinson, Artur r ubinstein, and Bruno Walter. o ne of Michaelis’s signatures was interviewing such notables in their own homes, putting them at ease and allowing them http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Music University of Illinois Press

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Arnold MIchAelIs A c onversation with r ichard r odgers Arnold Michaelis (1916–97) was an independent producer/documen- tarian working in new York from the late 1950s on. An executive with columbia records, he also taught at new York University and served as host-writer-producer of Music Magazine on WQXr, the radio station of the New York Times. In addition to many commercial radio and televi- sion programs, he produced such shows as cBs’s Invitation to Learning, Of Men and Books, For the Love of Music, and Adlai Stevenson Reports. he sought, as he put it, “to record for today and posterity, the flavor of the thinking and the essence of the ideas of the men and women whose lives will be studied by future generations.” his broad interests allowed him to ask probing and intelligent ques- tions of world leaders, politicians, athletes, writers, actors, and musi- cians. A few of his many interviews were with Bernard Baruch, Jack Benny, norman corwin, Indira Gandhi, Arthur Grumiaux, dr. Martin l uther King Jr., Jackie r obinson, Artur r ubinstein, and Bruno Walter. o ne of Michaelis’s signatures was interviewing such notables in their own homes, putting them at ease and allowing them

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American Music – University of Illinois Press

Published: Oct 15, 2009

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