Audio by Adam » Ziegfeld Follies http://www.audiobyadam.com Radio and Audio Features and Documentaries Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:41:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Radio and Audio Features and Documentaries - An ever-fattening blog with scores (soon to be 100s) of the sound-rich radio stories and documentaries Adam Phillips has done over 25 years for National Public Radio, the CBC, and, since 1993, the Voice of America, where he is on staff. Phillips' interests are truly eclectic - there are almost no subject that do not engage him, and through his careful use of ambient sound and interviews, lure us in as well. Categories include Americana, religion and spirituality, New York life, arts, offbeat science, oral history, and lots and lots of "other." Phillips has won nearly 20 awards for his work. He is also an adjunct professor at the New School's Graduate School of Media Studies, and teaches oral history workshops. Adam Phillips no Adam Phillips adam@audiobyadam.com adam@audiobyadam.com (Adam Phillips) 1984-2010 Radio and Audio Features and Documentaries radio,documentaries,NPR,human interest,VOA,Americana,profiles,spirituality,New York,immigrants,ethnic,audio,features Audio by Adam » Ziegfeld Follies http://audiobyadam.com/audio/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/rss.jpg http://www.audiobyadam.com Two Showgirls of Yesteryear http://www.audiobyadam.com/2009/two-showgirls-of-yesteryear/ http://www.audiobyadam.com/2009/two-showgirls-of-yesteryear/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:29:14 +0000 adamphillips http://audiobyadam.com/?p=505 It may be hard or many of us to imagine the glitter and the sometimes risque fun associated with the old nightclubs, burlesques and vaudeville houses of the 1920s and 1930s, especially in New York, where such entertainment reached a certain height of glamor. But what was that life like for those on the other side of the footlights? For this piece, I spoke with the late Dorshka Rafaelson, formerly of the Ziegfeld Follies, and Isabelle Powell,  widow of Adam Clayton Powell, who graced Harlem’s Cotton Club.  Both were  still-beautiful, and beautifully spirited, women.

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