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For episode 6 of Man and His Music, “Vocal Styles,” Dad and his producers came up with the idea of casting the content in terms of a talk show, the likes of which were as popular then as they are now, … Continue reading →

Episode 5 of Man and His Music, “Instrumental Forms,” covers material for which creative pedagogy is hard to come by.  When you’re considering the structure of your basic piece of string quartet music, it is what it is what it is.  … Continue reading →

Happy 4th of July! I plan to return next week to cover episode 5 of Man and His Music, “Instrumental Forms.”

Let me at the onset state what becomes obvious very quickly early in the viewing of espisode 4 of Man and His Music, the public television show my father recorded as part of some of the first distance-learning efforts undertaken at … Continue reading →

Thanks for joining me on a trip down what Robin Williams always referred to as Amnesia Lane via the half-hour episodes of my father’s distance-learning TV shows Man and His Music and Pop Music, U.S.A., the former of which aired 50 … Continue reading →

Lea and I are traveling this week, and so I will plan to post the third episode of Dr. Simon Anderson’s Man and His Music TV program, “Musical Designs in Western Culture,” next week at this time.  Have a blessed week!

Last week I returned to the blogosphere by linking to the first of 10 half-hour episodes of my father’s TV show, Man and His Music, which debuted 50 years ago on Cincinnati’s PBS affiliate, WCET, TV-48. This week, in the … Continue reading →

The time stamp indicates it’s been two years since I last conveyed thoughts via this blog, and life circumstances seem to suggest it would be OK to try to resume the activity. Thanks in advance for your consideration. I’m motivated … Continue reading →