"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Schumann: Genoveva Overture – Hans Pfitzner Conducts The Munich Radio Symphony – Broadcast 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One of the reasons for this Sunday feature is, not only to shed light on seldom performed pieces of…
Lowell Thomas and the News – April 24, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. 78 years ago, it was only a question of days before Germany called it quits. With Soviet troops in Berlin and the fighting house to house,…
– Address by Benito Mussolini – April 20, 1939 – EIAR, Rome – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I would imagine most Americans, born after the Vietnam War era, have probably never heard the voice of Benito Mussolini, one of…
NBC News Of The World – April 17, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News from London this day. Touted as a “reprisal attack” by Germany for Britain’s raid on Berlin and Potsdam a few days earlier, the Luftwaffe…
– FDR Funeral (recap) – April 14, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day 78 years ago, the country was in mourning as it paid its last respects to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died two days…
News for this day was moving faster than it could be reported. With reports that the Allies had crossed The Rhine, that the 3rd Army was the latest, and that additional crossings were ready to go at any moment, news…
– March 10, 1940 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 10, 1940 – A Sunday and a pause on the battlefield, and an appreciation of what will soon be Spring in Europe. On this…
February 23, 1940 – Special Report from Helsinki – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 23, 1940 – Reports from Helsinki concerned the invasion of Finland by Russia, and the status of fighting around Viipuri, Finland’s second largest city, was…
– February 22, 1941 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 22, 1941 – Washington’s birthday, and celebrations all over the U.S., while another night of raids and counter-raids went on in Europe. On this…
– Elsa Barraine – Symphony Nr. 2 – Paris Conservatory Orch. -Cluytens – circa 1953 – ORTF-Paris Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Elsa Barraine is a name not heard very much lately. But in the 1930s, all the…