Song Catcher: Frances Densmore of Red Wing / Artist Charles Biederman

Topics | Arts & Culture | Types | Documentaries | Pledge Drive | Special Collections | Native American | History |
May 16, 2013
Sara Meyer - Producer, Thomas Vennum - Interviewee, Nina Archabal - Interviewee, Charles Hofmann - Interviewee, Catherine Ullrich - Interviewee, Earl Bullhead - Interviewee, Lyndel King - Interviewee, Frances Densmore - Speaker, Charles Biederman - Interviewee, Jan Van der Marck - Interviewee, Stephen Smith - Host, Interviewer, Narrator, and Producer, Kerri Miller - Contributor, Steven John - Contributor, Marianne Combs - Contributor, Unknown - Reader and Speaker, Larry Aitken - Interviewee
Listen: MPR documentaries: 'Song Catcher: Frances Densmore of Red Wing' and 'Artist Charles Biederman.'
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During a pledge drive, MPR News Presents broadcasts two American RadioWorks documentaries, “Song Catcher: Frances Densmore of Red Wing” and “Artist Charles Biederman.”

“Song Catcher: Frances Densmore of Red Wing” details a young Minnesota music teacher who set out to capture disappearing Indian songs on a cylinder phonograph machine. 

“Artist Charles Biederman” profiles American abstract artist who settled in Red Wing, Minnesota. Biederman is best known for his three-dimensional painted aluminum sculptures, which attempted to capture the "structural processes" of nature.

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