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Marj Halperin - Lava Lamp
A visit to the Lava Lamp factory that used to be on Irving Park Road (after silence in middle of recording, the interview begins again but is cut off after a few minutes).
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Marj Halperin - Lee Conklin antique organ museum
Marj Halperin report as submitted to NPR, about a unique museum in small, southern Michigan town of Horton-Hanover. Includes interview with 93-year old museum founder.
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Marj Halperin - MLK birthday celebration
City of Chicago celebration, hosted at an area high school by Oprah Winfrey. Recording includes live performance by Stevie Wonder, remarks by Mayor Harold Washington, actors Charles Haid ("Hill Street Blues") and Ester Rolle and various children in atten
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Marj Halperin - Marj Guest News WXRT
One of my last guest hosting as news anchor on WXRT.
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Marj Halperin - Marj audition tape
Marj first radio audition tape. Sample news cast. Excerpt from public affairs interviews with David Linnowes about privacy; music interview with Dizzy Gillespie; feature report aired on All Things Considered about Free Street Theater too, a company of older Americans, including interview with founder Patrick Henry.
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Marj Halperin - Martin Puryear
NPR interview with this often reclusive sculptor. As we walked around his studio, I exasperated him by repeatedly asking him to explain his work. Finally, he said "Marj, if I could explain it, I'd be a writer!" But we did go on to have a pretty illuminating conversation about the challenges of creating public art, including one of his best-known Chicago works, the "River Road Ring" and "one of my favorite public works" the Bodark Arc piece. http...
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Marj Halperin - Mayor Richard M Daley
Christmas message. His first as Mayor (I didn't report on this: I wrote it, as Deputy Press Secretary to the Mayor). Actual recording, multiple takes.
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Marj Halperin - Misc interviews, side 1
8-6-80: Gene McCarthy on 1980 race; 2-22-82: Yehudi Menhuin on arts for students; 2-25-80: Desi Arnez, Sr. on voter registration drive (visiting Mayor Byrne); Fall, 1980: Howard Jarvis, proponent of California's Proposition 13, on national tax cuts, indexing income tax and other incentives (in advance of a national broadcast promoting his American Tax Reduction Movement); Ald. Vito Marzullo from the city`s West Side 25th Ward, 10-22-80, on upcomi...
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Marj Halperin - Misc interviews, side 2
11-29-79: Moshe Dayan airport interview, on Iran hostage crisis, referring to Entebbe experience; "if you want to maintain your position….you have to take risks"; 5-1-79: Abba Eban on Israel's 31st independence day, covering various Middle East issues including peace treaty and praise for Anwar Sadat. 10-1-80, Milton Friedman on "stopping the growth of government" and proposed "balanced budget amendment".
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Marj Halperin - Misc reports
Marj's WXRT reports on John Anderson's post-election speech; Byrne at a senior citizen ball.
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Marj Halperin - Misc reports NPR
Tennhauser & Romeo/Juliet updated; Role of museums In Chicago; City council decorum; two version of Nutcracker.
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Marj Halperin - Musicians building
Interviews at a west side home for retired blues musicians, supported by the musician's union. Some residents still played overseas, where they met huge, enthusiastic crowds while living in Chicago, virtually unknown.
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Marj Halperin - NPR 1988
Profile of rerepetiteur Gwen Halsted coaches soprano Linda Rogan, who discovered she needed more than a voice coach. Note: This has a very long "tail" of music. The SEVA foundation, based in Southern Michigan, was founded by 1960s activist/Merry Prankster "Wavy Gravy" and includes several other radical '60s stars on its board: Ram Das, Grateful Dead's manager Daniel Rivkin. They raise money to give the gift of sight to children in Nepal, where th...
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Marj Halperin - Nemico Mio
Interview with Dario D'Ambrosi, is a former professional soccer player and recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Instituto del Drama Italiano (equivalent of a Tony Award in his country). D'Ambrosi is one of Italy's leading performance artists and originator of the theatrical movement called teatro patologico, focused on mental illness. This tape includes segments from "Nemico Mio", staged at Chicago's Organic Theater and debuted tha...
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Marj Halperin - Passover
On the first eve of Passover, this report tells how children learn to make Matzo at a model factory (version as aired on Morning Edition--other tape has the recorded version, as I submitted). The Bern Convention, which gives artists eternal rights to the integrity of their work. Includes interview with artist Richard Serra who lobbied to get US to join the Bern Convention. World premier of Masada at the CSO, telling the story of a band of rebels ...
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Marj Halperin - Paul McCartney news conference
Promoting his movie "remember me to Broadstreet", McCartney stopped in Chicago for a news conference. This tape has the full news conference and also my NBC radio news reports, aired nationally. These focused on McCartney's complaints about Michael Jackson purchasing a large portion of the Beatles' catalog, including his "baby": the song Yesterday. He was dismissive when I pointed out that he had done the same, by purchasing rights to the Univer...
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Marj Halperin - Peter Sellars
Acclaimed director (and UCLA professor) Peter Sellars is interviewed about his innovative adaptation of Wagner's opera Tannhauser. He conceded he'd never seen a traditional version "too many parts put me to sleep". Tne NYT wasn't enamoured of Sellars' innovative version, which debuted at the Lyric Opera House. Here's the NYT review of this production https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/12/arts/review-opera-peter-sellars-s-particular-view-of-tannhause...
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Marj Halperin - Puryear/Koko's friends
Various artists backstage at the benefit talk about how they met, how they were inspired by Koko. Not all are identified by name on tape--tho they can be matched with my notebook from this event. TAPE BEGINS WITH MY REPORT ON PURYEAR, ABOVE.
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Marj Halperin - Q-101 report highlights
Child sexual abuse accusations at area preschool (pt2); Cubs fans camping out for tickets.
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Marj Halperin - Romeo & Juliet -- M Maggio -- (tape 1)
My NPR interview with the late Director Michael Maggio, and rehearsal clips from his landmark production of Romeo & Juliet set in an American Little Italy, just after the turn of the century. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/22/arts/michael-maggio-49-dire Also Nan Cibula, costumer and actor Michael Cerveris, who played Romeo.
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Marj Halperin - Ruth Page
Not actually an interview with Ruth Page,who declined, this tape has my interviews with her colleagues and students, including School Director Larry Long, various students and teacher Warren Conover, talking about her sense of humor and commitment to Chicago dance, including her annual production of Nutcracker Suite. Claire Battai, of Hubbard Street dance, talks about her support: "...nice to know she's there for EVERY company in Chicago."
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Marj Halperin - Schools crisis 1979; Byrne at Cabrini Green, 1981
1979 "riot" at Chicago Board of Education meeting; protest at Byrne's office; Byrne blames union "done all we can"; Joe Hannon quits as Supt Nov 1979; Angie Caruso quits as Supt. 1981; hearing on School Board nominee Rosemary Janus, one of two white women Byrne nominated in March, 1981.
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