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King’s Singers (07/20/1995)

July 18, 2025, 11:00 pm

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The King's Singers c. 1994 (image via kingssingers.com)

The King’s Singers have represented the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty years. The group began in 1968 when six recent choral scholars from King’s College, Cambridge gave a concert at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. By chance, the roster was made up of two countertenors, a tenor, two baritones and a bass, and the group has stuck to this formation ever since. Members of the King’s Singers visited Studs Terkel at WFMT on July 20, 1995.

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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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