"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Vaughan-Williams: Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – NY Phil. – Bruno Walter – Approx. Feb. 15, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Very familiar territory this weekend, played by one of the world’s great orchestras,...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Sarah Vaughan and her Trio – Live In Berlin – November 9, 1969 – RBB Radio Berlin One of my all-time favorites this weekend. Sarah Vaughan in concert from Berlin this weekend, recorded on November 9, 1969....
One of the interesting things about listening to actual history, as opposed to the recreation of it, is how much gets glossed over in the reconstruction and re-telling. Music and Popular Culture is often relegated to those key moments or top-10 songs to get some idea of the feel for...
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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