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Renée Fleming (02/12/96)

February 14, 2020, 11:00 pm

Renée Fleming (Photo: Andrew Eccles)

Studs Terkel remained ever interested in music and the people who create it. In 1996, he spent a musical hour with Renée Fleming, then a vibrant young artist at the start of a promising career. The timeless and celebrated soprano was born on February 14 and we wish her a very happy birthday.

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Studs Terkel (1912-2008) radically redefined the concept of radio interviews. For 45 years starting in 1952, WFMT was his homebase. His daily radio show was a pillar of WFMT’s programming, with its eclectic and astute mix of music and conversation. Studs juxtaposed interviews with the many of the 20th century’s most significant figures with the voices of uncelebrated, working people from Chicago. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Studs helped established oral history as a popular and socially ambitious literary genre. Some of his titles include: Division Street, Hard Times, Working, Race and And They All Sang (Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey). Studs was also a recipient of the National Book Award.

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