FACT SHEET FOR THE SONG AND THE SLOGAN
Program summary: WILL-TV’s The Song and the Slogan pays tribute to Carl Sandburg and celebrates his Midwestern roots. Incorporating a musical adaptation of Sandburg’s poem “Prairie,” written by composer Daniel Steven Crafts and sung by U of I School of Music alumnus Jerry Hadley, the performance documentary looks at Sandburg’s life and explores the prairie as a living entity, constantly changing yet unwilling to be tamed. WILL-TV producer Tim Hartin melds lush prairie visuals, Sandburg’s poetry and the music into a moving tribute.
Offer: By NETA, feeding Sunday, May 23, 2004, at 2030-2130 ET/513
Starring: Jerry Hadley, tenor
Producer, Director: Tim Hartin
Narrator: David Hartman
Music: Daniel Steven Crafts
Co-Director, Writer: Alison Davis Wood
Editor: Tim Hartin
Associate Producer: Barbara Hedlund
Research-Assistant Editor: Martha Diehl
Assistant Director: Heather Miller
Directors of Photography: Tim Hartin, Timothy Thompson
Graphic Design: Don Chambers
Photomation: Ian Mitchell
Costume Designer: Mary Stasheff
Executive Producer: Henry Szujewski
Musicians:
Paul Vermel, conductor
Jerry Hadley, tenor
Jordan Kaye, banjo
Barbara Hedlund, cello
Solomon R. Baer, clarinet
James C. Scott, flute
Eric L. Dalheim, piano
Kazimierz Machala, French horn
Ricardo Flores, percussion
Alison Robuch, oboe
