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Is Good Music Going Under?
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Item Title Is Good Music Going Under?
Guest Chapin, Schuyler
Guest Tureck, Rosalyn
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedMarch 31, 1999
Description

These two favorite Firing Line guests continue, as in previous conversations, to refuse to share their host's pessimism about the future of good music. Before Miss Tureck sits down at the keyboard, she and Mr. Chapin talk buoyantly about the difference between listening to music live and on recording, the history of the widespread availability of professional-quality music, and--something new--the reintroduction of an arts curriculum in New York City's public schools. WFB: "You're optimistic, then, about the impact of the restoration of the arts in New York?" SC: "I am, absolutely.... New York, which was the pits in terms of arts education, in the last two and a half years has become the national urban leader.... Nobody said it better than Rudolph Giuliani when he made the announcement about this: that [the arts] are as important as the sciences and as important as the other humanities." WFB: "And you expect to be able to document that, say, ten years from now?" SC: "Absolutely. If we're wrong, than we really have a problem in education. But I do not think we are wrong." RT: "If you are wrong, we really have a problem with humanity."

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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 30 minutes
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Hoover IDProgram S1200
Record Number80040.1483
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