"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – A Certain Ratio – In Session for John Peel – October 17, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 Ending up with the week with a session from A Certain Ratio and a dose of Post-Punk-Funk. Still around, though not active. Writing, but...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Charles Munch, cond. The French National Orchestra – Honegger: Symphony Number 5 (World Premier) – March 9, 1951 – ORTF – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A few months ago I ran a rehearsal with Charles Munch and The Boston Symphony, preparing...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Luchino Visconti Interview by Arthur Boyers – BBC Transcription Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As those defining moments in the history of Cinema, and the words from the people behind those moments start to fade from memory, it never hurts...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Tito Puente’s Golden Men Of Latin Jazz – Estival Jazz – Lugano, Switzerland – July 3, 1993 – RTS Heating up Sunday this week. The legendary Tito Puente and his Golden Men of Latin Jazz, featuring James Moody on Sax and...
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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