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Uta Hagen teaches at her HB Studio in New York.

Uta Hagen’s centennial

Arts

She was a great actress — and maybe even a greater acting teacher.

The World

Music heard on the air for January 28, 2014

Music Heard on Air
Musician Pete Seeger sings Amazing Grace during a concert celebrating his 90th birthday in New York May 3, 2009.

Pete Seeger woke up America with songs across several cultures

Arts, Culture & Media

American Icons: This Land is Your Land

An Afternoon with Pete Seeger

Audience Letters

And now it’s time to hear from you, our listeners with comments about Spring Hog salmon, factory trawlers, and Pete Seeger.

An Afternoon with Pete Seeger

Renowned for his combination of music and social activism, folk music legend Pete Seeger explains to Steve Curwood that it was Rachel Carson’s book ‘Silent Spring’ that really got him thinking and active on environmental matters. In 1969, with the help of other musicians and activists, Pete Seeger built a sloop he christened the Clearwater, […]

An Afternoon with Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger has been writing and singing songs on social issues for many decades so perhaps it’s no surprise that an environmental issue close to his home, and heart, is one of the things he spoke about with Living on Earth: the cleanup of the Hudson Rive

The World

Ernie and Yip

Arts, Culture & Media

Imagine The Wizard of Oz without “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “We’re off to See the Wizard.” Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg wrote them in collaboration with Harold Arlen. Harburg’s son Ernie explains how his father brought the rainbow to Oz.

The World

Bettina Jonic’s The Bitter Mirror

Arts, Culture & Media

Anchor Lisa Mullins speak to American-Croatian singer Bettina Jonic. Her 1975 album �The Bitter Mirror� is a Bob Dylan and Bertolt Brecht song cycle. It’s now out on CD for the first time.