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Live Music Television at WGBH: Cosel, Atwood, and Norton
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That’s how we learned how to direct: live. We didn’t have any choice. We did stuff live because we couldn’t afford to record it!
Read MoreWGBH-TV Encouraged Live Music for Decades
Bill Cosel: We lost another great. I love the Boston Globe pictures of Tony Bennett from Evening at Pops on the front page.
Read MoreStereo Television: Origins
WGBH-FM was already attracting listeners who cared about the quality of sound. Why just radio? Why not television?
Read MoreRobert Warren Davis, 94, Lighting Designer
In 1969–1970 he served as Lighting Designer for the first “Evening at Symphony” and “Evening at Pops” at Symphony Hall.
Read MoreA stranger in a strange land
From Fred Barzyk: Bill insisted I try to get into the scholarship program. You studied for your graduate degree at Boston University and worked three days a week at the Educational Television station. Free tuition and you got $600 to live a year in Boston!
Read MoreShooting Symphony
Skip Wareham on camera (Click to enlarge)
Read MoreAn Era Comes to a Close With Bill Cosel Conducting His Own Swan Song
Story by Chas Norton and Bill Francis; photos by Chas Norton Chas Norton: Bill Cosel announced his retirement from exec producer of POPS; last night was our last taping and he was asked to conduct the Stars and Stripes Forever by Keith Lockhart. We kept tape rolling and Billy Francis cut it. Bill abruptly found…
Read MoreQuo vadis WGBH (1946-2000)
From Don Hallock: It may surprise you to know how many places the station has called home. WGBH’s origins were in a converted skating rink on the second floor of 84 Mass. Ave. and the office spaces on the third, were the first home of WGBH from 1955 to 1961.
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