Two Class of 1969 events at the Conservatory's Kulas Recital Hall were recorded on video: the Talent and Variety Show on Saturday night and the Storytelling Event on Sunday afternoon. You'll find links below, two for each program.
Talent Show_000001
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NMuFraHzU_UJ5Q-UDz_zhLK431HtIjDM/view?ts=5ceec35d&hl=en
0:00
Audience enters
11:44
Tosca to Thriller, Russia to ROTC — Wayne Alpern piano
16:58
Opening Monologue — Wayne Alpern
24:44
Chattanooga Choo-Choo — George Galt voice & harmonica
29:40
Rachmaninoff, Preludes Op. 32 Nos. 5 & 12 — John Vineyard piano
36:30
Double Dare You, The Rose — Carolyn Bloom voice, Deborah Lipton Hanna piano
44:44
Chichibio — Jeff Byers storyteller
53:45
Bach, movement from a cello suite — Deborah Lipton Hanna piano
58:45
Five Spot After Dark — Tom Griffin guitar, John Kramer bass, Wayne Alpern piano
1:02:45
Misty — the above trio plus George Galt harmonica
1:06:18
Christmas Cards — Anne Brooks Hormann poem
1:10:56
Talent Show_000002
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E4-xKAM_OVYQXvFOlLFfXpMKzDbnEPMS/view?ts=5ceec35d
0:58
Poulenc, Sonata 1st Movement (Elégie) — Ann Matlock Ludwig oboe, Mimi Lam piano
7:41
Why Rhonda Liss is not here — Wayne Alpern
10:17
Soul Harmony: R&B Is Born! — Paul Fardig video
23:10
African-American Pledge of Allegiance — Greg Lewis poem
25:29
The Maine Haiku Almanac — Sarah Melhop Strong selected readings
35:06
Maria, Send In the Clowns, And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going — Wayne Alpern piano
49:08
Curtain call
49:33
Watermelon Man — jazz quartet
52:52
Audience begins to leave
55:16
Storytelling_000001
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14CzU3a2fYJ-keGXiGumdKQeV--3MvQpV/view?ts=5ceec2f5
0:00
Pre-show discussions
14:21
Introduction — John Kramer
15:43
A Cantata, A Woman, An Education — Jeff Byers
27:02
A second brief story about a departed wife's jewelry — Jeff Byers
33:30
My Mom Is Crazy — John Dove
44:02
A story about WWII, the French resistance, and a Jewish woman who survived with the help of Lorna's cousins — Lorna Forbes (the text version of that story is linked from here)
56:46
Tale of Two Summers: A Story of Oberlin, America, India, and Growing Up in the 70s — Chris Jones
1:10:56
Storytelling_000002
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bSNZEcJ43N4ambLOhBkR5ZJtXvrvC-6s/view?ts=5ceec2f5
0:25
slides for previous story — Chris Jones
3:32
The Melody of My Heart — Willard Moseley
12:02
Dot and Max under the Arizona Sky — Mark Schlawin
26:20
One remarkable night driving a cab in NYC — Bob Shay
33:58
How my family upbringing destined me to be a sex therapist — Aline (Penny) Zoldbrod
40:48
Thanks and goodbye
47:08