USSR Symphony – Yevgeny Svetlanov, Conductor – 1977 Prague Spring Festival – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week; The USSR Symphony conducted by Yevgeny Svetlanov and recorded during the Prague Spring Festival 1977. Three works are featured – opening with Symphony Number 1 (Classical) by Prokofiev,
Harry S. Truman – Address on Army Day 1946 – April 6, 1946 – April 6, 1946 – President Truman, addressing an assembled crowd in Chicago, celebrating Army Day 80 years ago. On this day in 1946, it was almost a year to the month the War in Europe came
– News reports + CBS World News Roundup – February 25, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Twenty-six years ago, on February 25, 2000; after three days of deliberations, a jury of 8 whites and 4 blacks in Upstate New York delivered a verdict in the Amadou Diallo case. Diallo,
February 23, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 23, 1987 – A milestone day – at the time immersed in Jewish-Russian dissidents and the ongoing Iran-Contra investigation – but also reflecting on the loss of two Popular Culture giants.
– The Oscar Peterson Trio – live at the 1968 Montreal Jazz Festival – CBC Transcription Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. I first ran this concert about ten years ago via another site. At the time the sound quality on the player available to me wasn’t very good,
– Sum and Substance – Interview with Jacques Lipchitz – March 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. An interview this week with legendary sculptor/painter Jacques Lipchitz. At the vanguard of the Cubist movement in the early part of the 20th century Lipchitz, along with colleagues Modigliani, Picasso and
Beach House – live at Pitchfork Festival 2015 – October 29, 2015 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Beach House – a band who have been almost constantly touring the past few years, has been getting huge attention all over the world. Further evidence, the work you put into something,
Daughter – live at BBC 6 Music Festival, Bristol – February 13, 2016 – BBC 6 Music – Daughter in concert at the BBC 6 Music Festival in Bristol on February 13, 2016. Getting started in 2010, and with a critically acclaimed debut album in 2013, Daughter have risen
Cleveland Orchestra – Erich Leinsdorf, guest Conductor – Michel Beroff, Piano – 1975-1976 season Continuing our leap around the vault this week with a concert by The Cleveland Orchestra, guest conducted by Erich Leinsdorf and featuring the French/Bulgarian Pianist Michel Beroff in music of Stravinsky, Bartok and Bizet/Shchederin. This concert
KCBS-San Francisco – Lookin”em Over – Sports Program – November 1952, Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Football season – in 1952 it wasn’t too much different than Football seasons before or since. East-West rivalries. USC-UCLA rivalries. The state of Sports in 1952 – looking back at baseball. And drugs were
