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Click on the link here for Audio Player – Emmanuel – Salamine – excerpts from Acts 1,2 and 3 – Cast and Chorus conducted by Tony Aubin – ORTF, Paris – March 29, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Excerpts from seldom performed French operas this week. Tonight, it’s the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Boston Symphony – In Rehearsal – Charles Munch, conducting – May 12, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another rehearsal from The Boston Symphony. This week, it’s a rehearsal for the U.S. Premier of the Symphony Number 5 by Swiss-French composer...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Ben Webster/Dexter Gordon – live at Baden Switzerland – 1972 – RTS Two legends in concert this weekend – Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon on tenor sax, along with Kenny Drew on piano, Ed Thigpen on drums and Bo Stief on...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Oscar Levant Show – WNTA – August 28, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Unless you are of a certain age, the name Oscar Levant may not mean very much to you. But in his day and throughout his career,...
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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