"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – John Lewis – Midsommer – from the album European Windows – February 1958 – RCA-Victor John Lewis, aside from being a founding member of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet was a musical renaissance man of sorts. Along with his milestone collaborations...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Erich Fromme Lecture – “Can We Resolve Conflict Without War?” – September 8, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When Psychologist, Sociologist and Philosopher Erich Fromme delivered this lecture in 1971, we were still in the midst of a Cold War....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Paul Creston: Fantasy For Piano and Orchestra – Martin Balsam, piano – NBC Studio Orchestra – Joseph Stulpak, cond. – July 1, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Heading over to some Mid-Century Americana this weekend. One of the bright names...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Second Sunday – The Dark Side of Love – July 8, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection According to this Radio documentary The Battered Marriage, the institution of Matrimony was taking a nosedive in 1973, starting roughly twenty...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – New York Philharmonic, Guido Cantelli, guest Conductor – March 15, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection While we’re busily digitizing the next batch of Boston Symphony In Rehearsal programs, I ran across this portion of a concert given by The New...
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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