May 30, 1978 - Eudora Welty, noted Southern novelist, talks about her unique style of writing, her early career as a photographer, and reads portions of her favorite short story. Program also presents an address by Welty at University of North Dakota Writers Conference.
May 22, 1978 - On this Midday ‘Playwrights' Lab’ hour special, a feature of short dramatic pieces by area playwrights. Program also includes arts reporter Nancy Fushan talking with playwrights-in-residence Mark Frost and Jon Olive, who discuss their works.
May 17, 1978 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan reports on a shake-up in The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's leadership. James Halland's contract to be general manager is not renewed and Principal Conductor Dennis Russell Davies is leaving after the 1979-1980 season to conduct in Europe. Edward Taylor, the president of the Orchestra Association's Executive Board, blames the shake up on the lack of financial stability in the future. There is also a proposal to alter the management structure.
May 17, 1978 - MPR's arts reporter Nancy Fushan and Jazz Image host Leigh Kamman prepared this sound portrait of the the post-1950s and contemporary jazz scene in the Twin Cities, collecting stories from musicians, educators, and club owners on an era of both creativity and strife.
May 16, 1978 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan reports on a shake-up in The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's leadership. This includes James Halland's contract to be general manager not being renewed and Dennis Russell Davies leaving after the 1979-1980 season to conduct in Europe. Report includes phone interview with Davies.
May 16, 1978 - MPR's arts reporter Nancy Fushan and Jazz Image host Leigh Kamman prepared this sound portrait of the Twin Cities jazz scene as it existed from the late 1920s to the 1950s, collecting stories on the musicians who played it and the people who listened to it.
May 8, 1978 - Harold Rosenberg, art critic for the New Yorker and social philosopher, speaking at the “The Big Question: Art/Not Art?” mini-conference, sponsored by the University of Minnesota Studio Arts Department. In speech, Rosenberg presents his definition of art.
May 3, 1978 - University of North Dakota in Grand Forks hosted the 9th annual Writers Conference in March 1978. MPR’s Arts and Cultural Affairs reporter Nancy Fushan attended the conference and presents this, the first of three programs, with an overview on the theme of conference “Literature as Lamp and Mirror.”
March 20, 1978 - On this Mixed Media program, MPR’s Nancy Fushan profiles poets Robert Creeley & Diane Wakowski, and filmaker Alfred Guzetti. Creeley
February 3, 1978 - Writer and playwright Garson Kanin gives closing remarks to "The Zestful Generation: Exploding the Myths of Age" two-day conference on aging, held at the Dayton's Department Store Auditorium in Minneapolis. Introduction by WCCO Radio's Charlie Boone.