Author Archives: Warren Anderson

In today’s episode of Pop Music, U.S.A., Dad gives the audience the second half of his look at jazz, which features the following highlights: A cold opening with Dad in full beatnik-hipster regalia: beret, sunglasses, and goatee More of his textbook look … Continue reading →

I continue to be pleased to share the 20 episodes of the two TV shows my father, Dr. Simon Anderson, created with the local Cincinnati PBS affiliate, WCET-TV, channel 48, in association with his teaching music appreciation and pop music … Continue reading →

Episode 2 of Dr. Simon Anderson’s Pop Music, U.S.A. covers the first of two looks at country music.  (See previous blog posts for the context for this recent series of posts celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dad’s two music appreciation TV … Continue reading →

Thanks to those who’ve read and watched the past several weeks’ worth of episodes of my father, Dr. Simon Anderson, for 40+ years a professor of music at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, and the first of his … Continue reading →

Episode 10 of Man and His Music, “Historical Periods in Art Music II,” is Dad at his academic best.  Pure scholars who might have rolled their eyes at some of Dad’s attempts to engage the engineers and accountants and nurses and, … Continue reading →

Classes at Judson University start a week from yesterday, and I’m behind the 8-ball.  We’ll resume the looks at Man and His Music next week, Lord willing.

I have argued throughout this series and in earlier blog posts that my father, Dr. Simon Anderson, during his 40+ years of teaching music at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, was way ahead of his time in lending … Continue reading →

We see two hallmarks of Dad’s pedagogy in episode 8 of Man and His Music, “The Musical Stage.”  First, as has been the case in all of the episodes thus far, Dad is all about bringing in others–sometimes colleagues, often … Continue reading →

Episode 7 of Man and His Music finds Dad exploring all kinds of choral forms, and we’re treated to a range of great choral music from a contemporary Black gospel choir, a barbershop quartet, and a collegiate madrigal singers ensemble, which … Continue reading →