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COVER STORY
Musical Comebacks
Kurt Andersen and jazz singer Bob Dorough talk about
why we love musical comebacks.
  Miles
Davis
At the end of his career, the jazz great had to rebuild
himself almost from scratch. Produced by Steve Rowland.
 Go
to official Miles Davis website
Go
to Sony's page on the later years
 Heavy
Metal Redux
A decade after the seeming death of
heavy metal music, fans revisit the charms of Quiet Riot and Poison. The
hard-rockin' hair bands of the 1980s are back. Produced by Jad Abumrad.
Go
to Arlene Grocery's site
Go
to Punk Rock/Heavy Metal Karaoke - the movie
Rachmaninoff
Classical music aesthetes finally embrace a composer
some thought was too popular to be any good. Produced by Sara Fishko.
Go
to German website on Rachmaninoff
Go
to a Rachmaninoff web ring page
SPECIAL GUEST
 Bob
Dorough
Bob Dorough is a vocalist and songwriter whose most
recent records are "Too Much Coffee Man" and "Who's on First?". For twelve
years he was also the musical director of the Saturday morning TV classic,
"Schoolhouse Rock."
Go
to Bob Dorough's bio on Blue Note
Go
to another Bob Dorough site
Go
to a Schoolhouse Rock website
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Profile:
Ruth Crawford Seeger
In honor of the centennial of her birth, we
look at the career of an avant-garde composer who started an urban folk
revival movement. Produced by Allison Lirish Dean.
Go
to Ruth Crawford Seeger page
Go
to RCS Brooklyn conference page
Go
to Chicago RCS conference page
Design
for the Real World
Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfield
wrestles with the form and function of his newest kitchen appliance, a can
opener. Produced by Steve Nelson.
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