WNYC; The Next Big Thing; We Require an Assertion of Value
- Collection
- WNYC
- Series
- The Next Big Thing
- Episode
- We Require an Assertion of Value
- Contributing Organization
- WNYC (New York, New York)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/80-87brvvk6
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- A mischievous and dark short story written by the late Donald Barthelme. Conversations with philatelists. A telephone sing-along by some folks who dont get out much anymore. Classically-influenced pop/punk music from singer/songwriter Regina Spektor. And another round of "Stump Zero Boy" with our favorite vocal acrobat. Heard on the Phone A conference call among ten homebound senior citizens. Most have never actually met, but once a week they spend an hour singing on the telephone with (and for) each other, assisted by Pat Grondahl of the Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center in New York. Isaacs Neighborhood Center website Secrets If you tell someone your secret, its not a secret anymore. But what if you just write it down on a scrap of paper, and put it in a strangers rucksack? Then what does it become? A sound montage created by Next Big Thing Secret Collector Pejk Malinovski. Regina Spektor in a Piano Shop Regina Spektor, a 24-year-old singer and songwriter born in Moscow and raised in the Bronx, is a classically trained pianist. But she writes songs more in the mode of punk and pop music. She doesnt have a piano in her new apartment, so she invited Dean to the Baldwin Piano showroom in midtown Manhattan to hear some of her new compositions. Produced by Matt Lieber. Go to Regina Spektor's Web site More Telephone Sing-Along Participants of the weekly Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center Sing- Along continue to croon into their handsets Stump Zero Boy Zero Boy is back to field cartoonish scenarios from listeners, which he then renders in sound - creating cinema for the radio with only his voice. Produced by Julie Subrin. Find out where Zero Boy's appearing live "The School" A story by the late experimental fiction writer Donald Barthelme. A series of classroom mishaps, involving (among other things) salamanders, plants, and death, lead students and teacher alike to question the meaning of life. Teacher played by Jacob Weber, student played by Amy Pearl. Produced by Pejk Malinovski. Tackling the Big Questions Who is God? Thats what this group of children tried to figure out, as documented, back in 1970, by Tony Schwartz. More Tony Schwartz recordings are available from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Sexy Stamps One of Americas most distinguished stamp-collecting organizations is the Collectors Club, formed in 1896 to promote interest in and knowledge of philately, among its members and the public generally. The clubs by-laws require an annual meeting. Next Big Thing producer Matt Lieber attended this years. View the 1948 issue three-cent stamp depicting Supreme Court Justice Harlan F. Stone Regina Sings and Plays Again Two more songs from pianist, singer and songwriter Regina Spektor. One More Time! Parting notes from the tireless participants of the Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center Telephone Sing-Along. Produced by Matt Lieber.
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- Magazine
- Rights
- WNYC
- Media type
- Sound
- Credits
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- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 43824.1 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
Duration: 01:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “WNYC; The Next Big Thing; We Require an Assertion of Value,” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 15, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-87brvvk6.
- MLA: “WNYC; The Next Big Thing; We Require an Assertion of Value.” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 15, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-87brvvk6>.
- APA: WNYC; The Next Big Thing; We Require an Assertion of Value. Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-87brvvk6