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| "Albee's Women" – This recording is entitled Albee's Women contains excerpts from The American Dream and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? Jenny Egan is Grandma in The American Dream. AL Kettler is Martha, and Kathryn Graybill is Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?, undated
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| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts Booktalk on WRR 1 – Books discussed include Prague Walks by Ivana Edwards, In a Fog edited by Robert Wexler, Venice by Michiel Marcuse, A European Journey, Two Sisters Abroad by Mary and Anne Wilson, A Motor Flight Through France by Edith Wharton, Italian Backgrounds by Edith Wharton, Travels in Alaska by John Muir, Columbia by Pamela Jekyll, I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven, Vagabond's House by Don Blanding, Spell of the Pacific anthology, Gringos in Mexico anthology, Nurseryman of Mission Valley by Gilbert Onderdonk, Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival by Frederick Spatz, The Centuries of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Patton, Promised Land by Carol Schumann, Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen, The Snow Leopard by Peter Matheson, East Along the Equator by Helen Winternitz, Wanderings in West Africa by Richard Burton, Focus on Africa anthology, and Wanderings by Clayton Hamilton, 5/27/1994-9/9/1994
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| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts Booktalk on WRR 2 – Books discussed include Triple A Guide to the Best Wineries of North America, The Napa Valley: Ultimate Winery Guide by Antonia Allegra, Route 66, The Mother Road by Michael Wallace, Letters from the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Byrd, The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, Australia by Carl Robinson, Australia Journey by Jacques Cousteau, The Song Lines by Bruce Chatwin, Dream Keepers by Harvey Arden, Notes from New Zealand by Edward Kanze, New Zealand by Elizabeth Booz, Passage to Vietnam anthology, 900 Miles on the Butterfield Trail by AC Green, Caribbean by James Michener, Fever Coast Log by Gordon Chaplin, Around the Spanish Main by Hugh O'Shaughnessy, The Night Before Christmas in Texas by Leon Harris, Tilli Comes to Texas by Evelyn Oppenheimer, and Haunted Highways: the Ghost Towns of New Mexico by Ralph Looney, 10/7/1994-12/30/1994 |
| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts
Booktalk on WRR 3 – Books discussed include Floriana: A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos by Margaret Wittmer, A Traveler's History of Paris by Robert Cole, A Place in the World Called Paris anthology, Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas by Joe Truett and Daniel Lay, The Good Frenchman: The Life and Times of Maurice Chevalier by Edward Behr, Oh, Come You Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clar" by Niall Williams and Christine Breen, and The Tony Hillerman Companion by Martin Greenberg, 3/31/1995-5/5/1995
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| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts
Booktalk on WRR 4 – Books discussed include Walks in Picasso's Barcelona by Mary Ellen Haight and James Haight, The Traveler's Tales of Mexico by James O'Reilly and Larry Habiger, The Centuries of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan, Writing the Western Landscape by Mary Austin and John Muir, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Mountaineering Women by David Mazel, The Source by James Michener, A Season of Stones: Living in a Palestinian Village by Helen Winternitz, The Curve of Time by Muriel Wiley Blanchett, The Honorable Company: A History of the English East India Company by John Keay, The Literary Hills of San Francisco by Luree Miller, Literary Circles of Washington by Edith Nalle Schafer, Through Time and the Valley by John Erickson, Hank the Cowdog by John Erickson, From Big Bend to Carlsbad by James Glendenning, and Spotted Dick S'il Vous Plait: An English Restaurant in France by Tom Higgins, 6/16/1995-11/24/1995 |
| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts
Booktalk on WRR 5 – Books discussed include Bareback by Jerry Ellis, Around the World in 72 Days: The Race Between Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland by Jason Marks, Telling Travels by Mary Schreiber, Scotland: an Intimate Portrait by Geddes McGregor,
Where the Waters Divide by Karen Berger and Daniel Smith, Jean Christophe by Romaine Roland,
The Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, and
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford, 12/1/1995-4/5/1996 |
| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts
Booktalk on WRR 6 – Books discussed include Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio by Tom Lewis, The Viewpoints of Stanley Marcus by Stanley Marcus, A Book Lover in Texas by Evelyn Oppenheimer, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee,
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose,
I Heard the Owl Cry My Name by Margaret Craven, How Good Do We Have To Be by Harold Kushner, The West by Geoffrey Ward, My Goose is Cooked by Hallie Stillwell, A Bowl of Red by Frank Tolbert, Poems That Touch the Heart by AL Alexander, This Noble Land: My Vision for America by James Michener, Leet's Christmas by Elithe Hamilton Kirkland, Christmas Memories by AC Green, The Centuries of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan, and The Night Before Christmas in Texas by Catherine Smith, 8/9/1996-12/20/1996 |
| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts
Booktalk on WRR 7 – Books discussed include The Silent World by Jacques Cousteau, Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life by Richard Merriman, Immortal Bohemian by Father Dante, I'll Gather My Geese, by Hallie Stilwell, Home from the Hills by William Humphrey,
Texas Short Stories anthology, Texas Women Writers anthology, Books of the Century anthology,Between the Cracks of History by Francis Abernathy, The Wooden Horseshoe by Leonard Sanders, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, and Papa Was a Preacher by Alyne Porter. The end of the file contains an unidentified woman recording ads for the Odyssey Communications Group and for upcoming events at both the University of North Texas and the University of Texas at Dallas, 7/18/1997-11/14/1997 |
| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts
Booktalk on WRR 8 – Books discussed include Poems That Touch the Heart by AL Alexander, 1998-99 Texas Almanac, Columbia Encyclopedia, Dear Mother by Karen Gordon and Holly Johnson, Ehrenberg by Natalie Ornish, Dallas: Public and Private by Warren Leslie, and Minding the Store by Stanley Marcus. She also discusses managing your books through wills, 11/22/1997-2/6/1998 |
| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts
Booktalk on WRR 10 – Books discussed include The Book of Marco Polo by Marco Polo, The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour, Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen, But I Wouldn't Want to Live There by Lisa and Michael Cader, An Informal History of Texas: History With a Hair and Hide Left On It by Frank Tolbert, Atlas of Legendary Places by Jennifer Westwood,
Reflections from the Flo Crossroads by Mark Taylor, and
The Texas Travel Encyclopedia by Lou Mallory. She also discusses stories by Hans Christian Andersen, plays by Henrik Ibsen, and music by Edvard Grieg, 4/15/1994-5/20/1994 |
| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts
Booktalk on WRR 11 – Books discussed include Giant by Edna Ferber, Standard of the West: The Justin Story by Irvin Farman, Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt, Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer, Stand Facing the Stove by Anne Mendelson, and Personal History by Katherine Graham, She also discusses Agatha Christie's body of work, Giacomo Puccini's operas, and a book binding exhibition, 10/11/1996-6/20/1997 |
| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts
Booktalk on WRR 12 – Books discussed include A Bowl of Red by Frank Tolbert, The Ways We Touch by Miller Williams, A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite, Charles Kuralt's America by Charles Kuralt, A Man from Kansas by David Hinshaw, and American Indian Ballerinas by Lili Cockerille Livingston. She also discusses slang, opera singer Rosa Ponselle, the poem Of History And Hope by Miller Williams, and book sequels, 1/17/1997-3/21/1997 |
| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts
Booktalk on WRR 13 – Books discussed include The Great Singers by Henry Pleasants, and Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier She also discusses Sir Walter Scott's works, Jane Austen, National Poetry Month, and books that changed the world. The file also contains a promo for the Fort Worth Dallas Ballet's premiere of Mozartiana featuring special guest Susan Jaffe, 3/28/1997-5/2/1997 |
| Evelyn Oppenheimer Hosts
Booktalk on WRR 14 – Books discussed include Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, L. Z. Cowboy by John Erickson, an unnamed book by Arcangela Tarabati. She also discusses high school students' essay competition entries, libraries, and John Philip Sousa, 5/9/1997-7/4/1997 |
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Music of Metroplex - Texas Baroque Ensemble. WRR's Anthony McSpadden hosts
Music of the Metroplex. On this segment, McSpadden visits with Susan Ferré, music director of the Texas Baroque Ensemble. They play recordings from Bach's
St John Passion and Arne's
Alfred and discuss Baroque music, instruments, and the Ensemble's plans, 2/11/1996 |
| Sharon Benge and Quin Matthews, hosts of Art Matters take listeners backstage and behind the scenes in the arts of Dallas and Fort Worth. Benge interviews Reggie Montgomery, who directs Spunk, a play by George Wolfe, for the Dallas Theatre Center. He speaks of his background and of working the play into existence. Quin Matthews then gives information on upcoming music, theatre, and museum happenings in Dallas Fort Worth. The second portion of the show is Matthews interviewing Barbara Lee Smith about her book Celebrating the Stitch and its accompanying exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. She describes how embroidery is not merely making doilies and how she collaborated with other artists for their work in the show and in her book, 3/21/1993, 3/25/1993" |
| Travel expert Cerie Siegel gives a run-down on current travel deals, travel locations, and travel advice, 1/13/1994-4/21/1994 |
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Booktalk on WRR 9 – She discussed Will You Always Love Me? by Joyce Carol Oates and the Korean-English Dictionary after a student wrote an essay on that dictionary being the book that changed his life, 1996 |
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Music of Metroplex - Dallas Bach Society.
WRR's Anthony McSpadden hosts
Music of the Metroplex. On this segment, McSpadden visits with James Richman, music director of the Dallas Bach Society. They play recordings of the Society's recent season from JS Bach, PDQ Bach, and George Handel and discuss some of the differences in modern versus Baroque instruments, 1996 |
| Promo by professional violinist Gil Shaham announcing Classical Music Month, 199X |
| Promo by Susan Hammond of
Classical Kids for Classical Music Month, 199X |
| Promo for a Frederick Swann organ concert at Highland Park Presbyterian Church on Sunday, 5/1996 |
| Promo for a Meyerson Symphony Center Lay Family Concert Organ event featuring organist Hector Olivera, 1998
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| Promo for a trip to Washington, D.C., the 1992 EDS International Summer Music Festival, forest fire safety, Regency Plaza Printing and Office Supply, and Cliff Temple Baptist Church's “Hot Dogs and Heroes” event, 1992 |
| Promo for Ballet Austin's performance of
The Nutcracker, under the leadership of Artistic Director Lambros Lambrou in Texas Hall at 701 West Nedderman Drive on the University of Texas at Arlington campus, 11/1994
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| Promo for Cliburn Concerts including performances by pianist Evgeny Kissin, pianist William Bolcom and soprano Joan Morris, pianist Christian Zacharias, pianist András Schiff, and pianists Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsov. Promo for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's 1996-1997 season. A Gabbert's Furniture commercial closes out the file, 1996 |
| Promo for Dalworth Carpet Cleaning Monday-only sale, 199X |
| Promo for Easter Brunch at the Adolphus Hotel, 1996 |
| Promo for Elliott's Hardware, 1995 |
| Promo for event presented by the Incarnation Choral Society. One is a Christmas concert, then a Twelfth Night celebration, and finally a spring concert with music from Haydn and Beethoven. Promo for a concert given at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation by organist Hans-Dieter Karras, 1995-1996 |
| Promo for featuring professional musicians announcing Classical Music Month. The musicians are violinist Ann Akiko Myers, symphony conductor and trumpeter Gerard Schwartz, operatic tenor Vinson Cole, violinist Christian Tetzlaff, soprano and actor Marni Nixon, operatic tenor Jerry Hadley, and artistic director and conductor Dennis Keene, 9/1/1994 |
| Promo for opera star Christine Brewer, along with brilliant conductor Daniel Beckwith, performing at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center to mark the 100th anniversary of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, 1996 |
| Promo for the 1995 City of Dallas bond election. Three spots, one featuring former Dallas mayors Annette Strauss, Steve Bartlett, and Jack Evans, 4/25/1995 |
| Promo for the Bach's Lunch events weekly during April and May at St. Michael and All Angels Church in Dallas, Texas. Guests were encouraged to bring their lunches, dine on the patio, and enjoy a free, live organ concert, 1996 |
| Promo for the Bankston Lincoln Mercury Red-Hot, Red-Tag Sale, 199X |
| Promo for the City of Dallas Bureau of Vital Statistics. It provides the information on where and how to obtain birth and death certificates. The entire message is then repeated in Spanish, 199X |
| Promo for the Dallas Arboretum and its Ultimate Treehouses exhibit, 1996 |
| Promo for the Dallas Bach Society announcing its 16th subscription season of Baroque and classic music including JS Bach's
Brandenburg Concerto, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Handel's
Messiah, Monteverdi's Madrigals, Bach's violin sonatas, and the complete St. John Passion,1997 |
| Promo for the Dallas Museum of Art's Horchow Series upcoming concert by California jazz singer, songwriter, and recording artist Shanna Carlson. The file has an unidentified partial promo at the end, 1996 |
| Promo for the Dallas Wind Symphony's shows titled “Suns, Moons and Stars,” "Christmas at the Meyerson." “From Beatles to Broadway,” and “The Ride of Your Life.” Promo for the Fort Worth Classic Guitar Society, 1996-1998
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| Promo for the Farmers Branch Folklore Festival, 1996 |
| Promo for the Fine Arts Chamber Players of Dallas and its performance at the Dallas Museum of Art featuring harpist Ellen Richer, 10/1996 |
| Promo for the Fort Worth Chamber Orchestra's Casual Classics Series, for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra's
Belshazzar's Feast, and for two other local events, 1995-1996 |
| Promo for the Fort Worth Civic Chorus for two concerts, “A Journey Through Love” and "Traditions that Bind," 1996 |
| Promo for the Friends of WRR's trip to St Petersburg, Novgorod, and Moscow, 1996 |
| Promo for the Galleria Wonderland Express and Christmas shopping at the Galleria, 10/30/1996 |
| Promo for the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra featuring Katie Hyun at Myerson Symphony Center Sunday, February 25th at 7.30 p.m. This promo is at the end of the reel. The preceding promo spots are incomplete, 2/1996
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| Promo for the Irving Heritage Society inviting you to its monthlong event on author Washington Irving, allegedly for whom the town was named, 199X |
| Promo for the KidZtime TV network, 1996 |
| Promo for the KidZtime TV network, 1997 |
| Promo for the Orchestra of New Spain in Concert in concert at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church, 1996
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| Promo for the Orpheus Chamber Singers and their final concert of the season, Sunday, May 12th, at the First Unitarian Church in Dallas. The show featured music from Britten, Williams, Mechem, Child, and Copland, 1996 |
| Promo for the Richardson Chamber Music Society's 10th anniversary concert at SMU's Caruth Auditorium and its last concert of the 1995-1996 season at St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church, 1996 |
| Promo for the TCU Cliburn Piano Institute and its upcoming concerts that include both guest artists and students, 1996 |
| Promo for The Ying Quartet at the Bass Performance Hall, 199X |
| Promo for three concerts in the Concert Hall of the Mesquite Arts Center: one by the Round Top String Quartet and two by Dallas Symphony Orchestra musicians Ronald Hudson and Melvin Baer. Promo for the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth concert featuring Van Cliburn Piano Competition winner Alexei Soltanov. The file also include two unfinished promos, 1996-1997 |
| Promo for two concerts by the University of North Texas College of Music at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas: the Adkins Family and the One O'Clock Lab Band, 1994 |
| Promo for two Southern Methodist University Meadows Symphony Orchestra concerts, 1996 |
| Promo for Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth concerts, 1996-1997 |
| Promo for Walden Chamber Music Society's 1994-1995 season “Classical Music with a Personal Touch,” 1994 |
| Promo for Wilshire Baptist Church 1 – Promo for the Wilshire Baptist Church's "Worship and the Art Series" presenting organist Michael Burkhardt in a Festival of Christmas Carols, 1994 |
| Promo for Wilshire Baptist Church 2 – Promo for the Wilshire Baptist Church's Sanctuary Choir presenting the "Many Moods of Christmas" by Robert Shaw and Robert Russell Bennett, 199X |
| Promo for WRR Birthday Bash, 1996 |
| Promo for "Fort Worth Salutes Dallas,” starring Betty Buckley and the Fort Worth Symphony Pops Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall. Bass Hall opened on May 1, 1998, so this performance was among the earliest in the new building, 1998 |
| Promo for a University Park United Methodist Church concert, 1994 |
| Promo for Dallas Summer Musicals Presents West Side Story, 8/1995 |
| Promo for Cliburn Concerts at the Meyerson Symphony Center featuring flautist James Galway and pianist Christopher O'Reilly, 1994 |
| Promo for Craig Lawrence Jewelry, 1996-98 |
| Promo for upcoming Dallas Opera performances of
Billy Budd, The Magic Flute, and
Turandot, 11/6/1997 |
| Promo for Dallas Summer Musicals Presents How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying starring Ralph Macchio, 1996
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| Promo for Shakespeare, Beethoven, and Company, 9/1996
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| Promo for the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth's masterwork series, Sweet Adelines, the Dallas Museum of Art, and Senior Day at the Dallas Zoo, 1994 |
| Promo for upcoming Dallas Opera performances of Carmen, The Tempest, and Tosca, 1996 |
| Promo to enter your five favorite classical music pieces for WRR's annual Labor Day Top 40 Classical Countdown, to register to win a Caribbean cruise for two, and to donate needed school supplies for area children. |
| Promo for WRR's Executive of the Week drawings, 7/1994 |
| Public Service Announcement from Dallas Police Chief Ben Click rolling out "Amber's Plan," commonly known as Amber Alerts, 12/18/1996 |
| WRR's Dallas Opera Preview Show with announcer Susan Owensby describing the performances, performers, and plots of the 41st season's upcoming shows. The slate includes Aida, Billy Budd, The Magic Flute, and Katya Kabanova, 1997
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