KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: Janice Weber, Classical Pianist and Writer

Analog Audio

Event Type

Spoken Word

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MC.1992.05.15.c1

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

22 min

Dates

1992-05-15 | broadcast
| 1992-05-14 | created

Description

Recorded in May of 1992, Janice Weber, a Boston-based novelist and concert pianist whose virtuosity knows no bounds, reads from her 1992 novel, “Frost the Fiddler,” which follows the exploits of a female American spy and concert violinist, a sort of James Bond in a black dress. Set in post-glastnost, pre-unification East Germany, Leslie Frost, code-name Smith, (one of two surviving female agents named after the Ivy League's Seven Sister schools), is dressed to kill and armed with all the latest gadgets that will fit into a purse as she investigates a Communist spy ring.

Genres

Literature

Musical Selections

[reading from the novel “Frost the Fiddler”] (2:05) -- [reading from the novel “Frost the Fiddler”] (13:37) -- [reading from the novel “Frost the Fiddler”] (5:27)

Performers

Janice Weber, reader

Subjects

Literature
Violinists -- Fiction
Spy stories

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Weber, Janice