"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Silas G. Pratt: Serenade For Strings – NBC Studio Orchestra – Joseph Stulpak, cond. – 1944 broadcast performance – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. A bit of late 19th-early 20th Century long-forgotten American Orchestral Music this weekend. Silas...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Buddy De Franco – Live in Buenos Aires 1980 More sad news this week. The passing on Christmas Eve of Jazz Hall of Fame Clarinetist Buddy De Franco, whose work began in the Big Band era and...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player: Toru Takemitsu: Woman In The Dunes (soundtrack) – JVC-Japan Known largely on this side of the Pacific as a composer of the Avant-Garde, Toru Takemitsu was a huge fan of cinema and was very much in demand by...
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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