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(George Calden died Jan. 7, 2007, at the age of 91) 1967 Nov. 5 - "Bach to Baez..Varieties of Worship Music" George C. & John Grindrod 1968 Apr. 14 - "Voices of Spring" 1968 May 19 - "A Psychologist Looks at Vietnam" 1969 Oct. 19 - "Fiddler on the Roof Revisited - A Discussion of Jewish Folk Music and Culture" 1970 Feb. 22 - "Beethoven – Is He Relevant Today?" 1970 Nov. 29 - "Does the Afterlife Begin at 30?" 1971 Jan. 17 - "Let Beauty, Truth and Good Be Sung" 1971 Dec. 5 - "A Tribute to Minos Theodorakis, composer of 'Zorba the Greek'" 1972 Nov. 26 - "Music in the Prairie" 1973-74 lay ministry on Marriage, Music, and Madness: 1973 Sept. 9 – "Marriage: I Count, You Count" 1973 Sept. 23 – "Brave New Marriage" 1973 Oct. 7 – "Morality, Immorality, Amorality" 1973 Oct. 14 – "The Gospel According to the Prairie Chicken Pluckers" 1973 Oct. 28 – "The Personal Meaning of Music" 1973 Nov. 25 – "Our Strongest Religion-Patriotism" 1974 Oct. 27 – service for those not attending the annual retreat 1975 March 16 – "Music: Alive and Kicking", on the joys of performing music 1976 Dec. 26 – "Varieties of Christmas Music: From Pope Gregory to Odetta" 1978 Jan. 8 – "Zen and the Path from Psychopath to Cyclepath" (with Clark Wright Edwards) 1980 June 15 – Talk with slides on Cuba and the refugees - (with Ruth) 1980-81 lay ministry on Marriage, Music, and Miscellaneous: (See article and photo in August 27, 1980 Prairie Fire, a large PDF file.) 1980 Sept. 7 - "Is Marriage an Alternate Life Style?" 1980 Sept. 14 - "For the Love of Pete (Seeger)" 1980 Oct. 5 - "What's So Funny About Marriage? (Humor in the Family)" 1980 Oct. 12 - "The Thing and I" (at Upham Woods) 1980 Nov. 9 - "Happy Birthday Ludwig (Beethoven)" 1980 Nov. 16 - "Heroines & Heroes" 1983 July 10 - "Unitarian Summer Camps", slide presentation with Ruth, Les Lyons & Jacob Haun 1983 Oct. 23 - "Around the World in 60 Minutes", an intergenerational celebrationof U.N. Day with the Ethnic Impurities 1984 Jan. 1 - "Does the Future Lie Ahead?" participatory discussion 1986-87 lay ministry on Eight Who Dared: 1986 Sept. 7 - "The Gospel According to Woody Allen" 1986 Sept. 14 - "The Liberation Theology of Father Carney" * 1986 Sept. 21 - "Miles from Nowhere - Around the World on a Bicycle" * 1986 Oct. 5 - "A Refusenick Trapped in the Soviet Union" * 1986 Oct. 26 - "Me and Eleanor" (Eleanor Roosevelt) by Rachel Siegfried * 1986 Nov. 2 - "Margaret Mead, One Who Dared" by Pat Cautley 1986 Nov. 9 - "I Ain't Gonna Be Treated Thisa-Way", a musical tribute to Woodie Guthrie featuring Mike Briggs and Barbara James 1986 Nov. 16 - "Rediscovering the Power of the Theatre" featuring Ted Swetz of American Players Theatre * 1990 June 3 - "A Prairie Stir Fry" * 1992 May 3 - "On the Outside, Looking Out" 1993 July 11 - "Everyone Should Leave Tracks" * 1993 Dec. 12 - "Precious Memories" * 1994 Dec. 4 - "Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous" 1995 Dec. 10 - "Let Every Little Light Shine" 1996 Nov 3 - "A Prairie Stir Fry" 1998 May 3 - "To Life - L'Chaim!" * 1998 Sept. 20 - "Off the Top of Your Head" * 2001 Jan. 28 - "The Gospel According to the Ethnic Connection", celebrating more than 500 performances by the group. * George made musical or other contributions to many additional programs, including the following: 1970 Oct. 23 - George helped to lead "a boisterous evening of family games" in the Upham Woods lodge on a drizzly Friday night at the start of an annual retreat weekend. 1977 Oct. - The Ethnic Impurities provided music for David Carson's lay ministry on idealists confronting authority. 1978 Oct. 15 - George and Doleta provided instrumental music and led songs for Lois Hagstrom's program on "Mexican Revolutionary Prints and Music - and Mexican dancing". 1983 July 23 7:30 pm The Ethnic Impurities sang and played for folk dancing for a Saturday benefit for the Sanctuary Project at Prairie. 1985 Dec. 8 - George and Ruth provided Andean music for Elisabeth Jones' Sunday program, "Sound and Silence: The Tuning of the World" with guest Neal Ewers. * 1988 June 12 - The Ethnic Connection provided prelude music and performed their "Perestroika Stomp" for Lee Bullen's Sunday program on "Perestroika". * 1995 June 25 - The Ethnic Connection provided music for Dave Johnson's program on "Fifteen Years In the Developing World". * 1998 Oct. 18 - For "Sidney and God", a dramatization by Anne Urbanski, Warren Hagstrom played Sidney and George Calden played God with Al Nettleton as narrator. 1999 Oct. 24 - George, Ruth and Rosemarie contributed music, as the Martin Buber Trio, to a Sunday service at which Tammy Baldwin spoke. Hear it here. 2000 Aug. 20 - George and Ruth joined other Prairie musicians contributing to a "Prairie Jam Session". * * Recorded on audio cassette. |
Updated by Archives Committee Sept. 27, 2019 |