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Lynne Warfel

Lynne Warfel

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Minnesota Public Radio
lwarfel@americanpublicmedia.org
(651) 290-1117

Lynne Warfel returns to a 24-year radio career after a four-year hiatus. In this "Cavorts with Collies" period, she followed her lifelong passion for working with dogs as a trainer and behavior consultant. She started "Good Dog Productions," her in-home dog training business in 2006. Previous to The Dog Mutterer phase, she was one of the first national hosts back in 1995. She was also heard locally on Minnesota Public Radio from 1993-2005. While at MPR in her former incarnation, she hosted the Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest, Echoes of Christmas with the Dale Warland Singers, Sommerfest broadcasts, was a guest narrator with The SPCO and Minnesota Orchestra, and was a frequent guest host on The Morning Show with Dale Connelly and Jim Ed Poole.

Lynne Warfel Feature Archive

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Paul Anka

Flicks in Five: The Longest Day

A very young Paul Anka, who had a part in the big-budget movie, wrote the theme song. (05/17/2013)
Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift

Flicks in Five: A Place in the Sun

<em>A Place in the Sun</em> was a 1951 black and white classic of intrigue, betrayal and murder based on Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel, <em>An American Tragedy</em>. (05/11/2013)
Julie Andrews

Flicks in Five: The Sound of Music

Loosely based on a true story, The Sound of Music was last in the string of successful musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein. (05/04/2013)

Flicks in Five: "Summer Stock"

<em>Summer Stock</em>: Judy Garland's last film for MGM and her last pairing with friend Gene Kelly, <em>Summer Stock</em>'s upbeat nature is far from what was going on during filming. (04/26/2013)

Flicks in Five - Alexandre Desplat

This French composer didn't hit the Hollywood radar screens until he received wide acclaim for the scores for the final Harry Potter movies (04/19/2013)

Flicks in Five: Spencer Tracy

A star long before he was paired on screen with Katharine Hepburn, Tracy's now legendary quote about the art of acting says it all: "Know your lines and don't run into the furniture." (04/13/2013)

Flicks in Five: Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg is one of Hollywood's most powerful director-producers, and we're taking a look at his early career and his Oscar wins. (04/06/2013)

Flicks in Five: Humphrey Bogart

While Casablanca made Humphrey Bogart a star before he met Lauren Bacall, it was their famous off-screen love affair that fired their on-screen chemistry. (03/30/2013)

Flicks in Five - The Music Man: from Mason to River City

Meredith Willson has written some great standard tunes in the popular repertoire, but it's the story of the con man turned good-guy by an Iowa librarian that became a classic when "The Music Man" premiered. (03/14/2013)

Flicks in Five: Life of Pi - Mychael Danna

The Oscar-winning score is the backdrop to the story of a young Hindu boy, Pi, in the summer of 1977, surviving a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger named after an Edgar Allen Poe character. (03/02/2013)

Flicks in Five: John Williams

This weekend's Oscars ceremony marks John Williams' 48th nomination for best score and his 26th collaboration over 40 years with Steven Spielberg. (02/23/2013)

Flicks in Five - Bette Davis

Bette Davis was the nemesis to some Hollywood types and muse to others. Through the late 1930s and into the 1940s she was Hollywood's top leading lady, winning two Academy Awards. (02/15/2013)

Flicks in Five: New Release of music from James Bond Films

In a new release, American born Carl Davis conducts a full orchestra in the best of James Bond Movie Music. (02/09/2013)

Flicks in Five: Danny Elfman

Four time Oscar nominee, Danny Elfman is known for his collaborations with Tim Burton, music for the <em>Batman</em> movies and <em>The Simpsons</em> theme song. (02/02/2013)

Flicks in Five - Sunset Boulevard

Franz Waxman gave the same chilling effect as his score to "The Bride of Frankenstein" in the score of "Sunset Boulevard," the story of the mental disintegration of a silent film star. (01/26/2013)