American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • Toby Lurie’s sound sculptures

    Clare (Loeb) Spark discusses experiments in aural art with poet and sound artist Toby Lurie. Lurie performs some of his pieces, including conversation poems between himself and a tape recorder, one-word poems and multi-part vocal experiments performed with Loeb and Jan Lurie, in studio. The two reels comprising this program are each self-contained.

  • On collecting art and boards of trustees in art museums / interview by Clare Spark.

    Art collectors and museum trustees Joann and Gifford Phillips, discuss museums and collecting art. Joann is the Chairman of the Contemporary Art Council at LACMA and Gifford (1918 – 2013) is a Trustee of MoMA and the Pasadena Art Museum.

  • Problems of architecture in Los Angeles: Frank Gehry and John Pastier / interviewed by Clare Spark.

    John Pastier (1939 – ), architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times, and Frank Gehry (1929 – ), architect, discuss the problems of architecture in Los Angeles with KPFK’s Clare (Loeb) Spark.

  • Interview with Anais Nin / interviewed by Clare Spark.

    Diarist Anais Nin (1903 – 1977) discusses the women’s liberation movement with KPFK’s Clare (Loeb) Spark. First 37 minutes contains interview segment (same recording as BB5234). Second part of recording is Loeb reading the article “Set Out for Clayton!” by Harold Rosenberg from the January 2, 1971 New Yorker.

  • The literary world of Anais Nin

    Clare Spark (nee Loeb) interviews author Anais Nin (pronounced “Anna-EES” “NEEN”). Program begins with two songs about “emancipated women” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado,” songs which Loeb chose specifically for Ms. Nin. BB4200 is a edited, lower quality version of this recording. Series name written on box is “The Scene – Artists and Art,” but…

  • Anais Nin on women’s liberation / interviewed by Clare Spark.

    Author Anais Nin (1903 – 1977) discusses the women’s rights movement with KPFK’s Clare (Loeb) Spark. Nin criticizes the feminist movement for what she takes to be the generally angry and blaming tone of many of the movement’s leaders, and cautions against the projection of women’s neuroses onto the revolution. Originally broadcast on KPFK as…

  • Lynn Carlin interviewed by Claire Clouzot

    Claire Clouzot talks with Lynn Carlin, the female lead of John Cassavettes film “Faces” at the San Francisco Film Festival, October 1968. She talks about Faces being her first film role, about the roles she’s been offered since, and “Faces”‘status as an American independent film. The recording cuts off abruptly.

  • Clare Spark with Donald Adams of D’Oyly Carte

    Interview with Donald Adams, formerly a member of the world known Gilbert and Sullivan operetta production company D’Oyly Carte and newly of Gilbert and Sullivan for All, about his group’s efforts to keep these productions before the public. Gilbert & Sullivan for All were performing at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles the week…

  • On not liking kitsch

    Harold Rosenberg’s essay “Pop Culture: Kitsch Criticism” read by Clare Loeb and “Kitsch” by Gilbert Highet read by Ruth Buell. The first reel features Loeb’s reading of Rosenberg; the second reel features Buell’s reading of Highet. Produced by Clare Loeb and Ruth Buell.

  • Sadie and Maude / Jeanette Henderson and Linda Taylor

    In this program of poetry, discussion and music dedicated to Angela Davis, two young Black women, Jeanette Henderson, wife and mother, and Linda Taylor, student, read the works of Black women poets Sojourner Truth, Jeanette MacDonald, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charlene Grant, and a poem titled “Inside the Church of the People” by an anonymous poet. Black…