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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Bows on HBO
“We don’t play down to kids. We just have a very short audience.”—Joe Raposo, Sesame Street composer. There are few more pleasurable strolls than the one kids take every day down Sesame Street. Since its debut on public TV on … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cable, Education, Film, Puppetry, TV
Tagged Bob McGrath, Caroll Spinney, Children's Programming, Children's Television Workshop, Early Childhood Education, Frank Oz, HBO, Jim Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney, Joe Raposo, Jon Stone, Lloyd Morrisett, Marilyn Agrelo, Michael Davis, PBS, Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop, Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, The Muppets
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Remembering Jacques d’Amboise (1934-2021)
“My interest, my belief, my obsession is that the arts liberate a person’s heart and mind to all kinds of possibilities.”—Jacques d’Amboise. I don’t think I’ll ever meet anyone quite like Jacques d’Amboise again. Jacques was so full of life … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dance, Education, Film, Theater, TV
Tagged Christopher Awards, Dance and Dancers, Emile Ardolino, George Balanchine, He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin', I Was a Dancer, Jacques d'Amboise, National Dance Institute, NDI, New York City Ballet, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Who's Dancin' Now
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Find Out Who Makes All the Difference on POV
“It isn’t how you start, it’s how you finish,” says Robert Henderson, one of two African-American teenage boys whose hard-won journey from the South Side of Chicago through high school graduation and four years of college drive the five-year timeline in All … Continue reading
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