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Click on the link here for Audio Player – Paul Dukas: Variations, interlude et finale sur un thème de Rameau – Lelia Gousseau, Piano – 1951 – Paris Radio Studio Back over to Paris this week for part of a radio recital given by the renowned Pianist and teacher Lelia...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor – rehearse Bruckner: Symphony Nr. 7 – April 18, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Continuing the series of Boston Symphony rehearsal broadcasts. This one features the Boston Symphony under their then-music Director Serge Koussevitzky in...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Weather Report – In Concert from Tokyo – June 28, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection If it wasn’t for Weather Report, I’d be hard pressed to figure out just where Jazz/Fusion would be. Maybe heading off in another direction, or...
Click on the link here for Audio Player- Angel Olsen – In Session at Evening Pocket, Paris – December 9, 2013 Breaking out from the ranks of backup singer for Cairo Band and Will Oldham, Angel Olsen has struck out on a solo career that, from the looks and sounds...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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