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  • Composer Grażyna Bacewicz (Episode 13)

    A program exploring the work of Polish composer and violinist Grażyna Bacewicz (1909 – 1969). Presented by Susan Sailow and Virginia Kosanovic. Produced by Susan Sailow. Self contained. Contents: 1. Piano Quintet No. 1, movement 1; 2. continuity; 3. Piano Sonata no. II; 4. continuity; 5. Musique pour cordes, trompette et percussion; 6. continuity; 7.…

  • How Virginia Bought it in California: by Nancy Stockwell

    Nancy Stockwell (1940 – 1999), Bay Area lesbian-feminist author, reads from her semi-autobiographical work How Virginia Bought It in California (unpublished). Contains sensitive language.

  • Elayne Jones, timpanist (Episode 16)

    An interview with timpanist, percussionist and teacher Elayne Jones, a Black woman with Barbadian parents who grew up in Harlem (New York City). She discusses her musical background and upbringing, her years with the New York City Opera, her move to San Francisco and her experiences as a Black woman in the world of opera.…

  • Composer Miriam Gideon (Episode 17)

    Program devoted to the music of American Jewish composer Miriam Gideon (1906 – 1996) in honor of Rosh Hashanah. Gideon was Professor of Music at the Jewish Theological Seminary and at City College, both in New York City. Presented by Virginia Kosanovic and Fleur Helsingor. Self-contained. Contents (all pieces by Miriam Gideon): 1. continuity; 2.…

  • Gertrude Stein: a feminist look at the woman and the author / produced by Linda Schiffman

    A historical and critical documentary about writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). Different voices are used to recreate people in Stein’s life, as well as Stein herself (played by Eleanor Sully, former head of Drama and Literature Department at KPFA). Others at KPFA in the cast include: Ellen Dubrowin (subscription registrar); Kathy McAnally (Public Affairs Dept.); Warren…

  • Adrienne Rich reading her poetry

    Adrienne Rich reads and comments on her poems at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco, CA on April 25, 1974. The reading was sponsored by the Poetry Center of San Francisco. She is introduced by Kathy (her last name is not given). She begins with poems from her book “Diving into the Wreck” (published…

  • Rita Mae Brown, Donna Eagles and Zoe Nawoe discuss class differences

    Rita Mae Brown, author of The Hand That Cradles the Rock, Songs to a Handsome Woman, Rubyfruit Jungle and other books, and Donna Eagles, Bay Area activist, discuss class differences, feminism, sexual orientation, power and lack of power, publishing, humor, how to build a successful movement, and more with KPFA’s Zoe Nawoe. Includes phone calls…

  • Group interview with Rita Mae Brown, Sally Gearhardt, Zoe Nawoe, and Ellen Dubrowin

    Group interview with Rita Mae Brown, poet and author of Songs to a Handsome Woman (Diana Press, 1973), feminist writer and activist Sally Gearhart and KPFA’s Zoe Nawoe and Ellen Dubrowin, on teaching, art, politics, humor and survival. Brown reads her poems “The New Lost Feminism,” “Deja Vu: Watching Old Movies on the Late Night…

  • Alice Walker reads Fame from her book You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down / Karla Tonella

    Alice Walker reads her short story “Fame” from her book of short stories, “You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down,” at the San Francisco Women’s Building on May 23, 1981. Susanne Lee and Karla Tonella recorded the reading. Walker is the author of three books of poetry: “Once” (1968), “Revolutionary Petunias and other Poems” (1973),…

  • Alice Walker reads poetry: Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll see you in the morning / Alan Soldofsky

    Alice Walker, Black woman poet and novelist, reads from her new book of poetry “Good night, Willie Lee, I’ll see you in the morning” at Cody’s Bookstore in Berkeley on September 26th, 1979. Walker reads some poems that are not featured in the book. Poems read include I said to poetry, On sight, Overnights, If…