"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Vienna Festival 1959 – Philharmonia Hungarica – Paul Sacher, Conductor – Yehudi Menuhin, violin – Marilyn Horne, soprano – June 21, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something historic this week – Music from the Vienna Festival in 1959,…
February 28, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup -The World Tonight – Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 28, 1980 – 1980 seemed to have been The Year Of The Hostage, by the looks of the first…
Paul-Henri Spaak – Meet The Press – April 5, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Berlin in the middle of the Cold War. It was often said, during these uncertain times, that if World War 3 was to break…
News for this day in 1980 – the New Hampshire Primaries – click on the link at Past Daily and listen to the original newscast from that day.
Meet The Press – Sava Kosanovic – November 12, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Post-War Yugoslavia; smack in the middle of the East European Iron Curtain and ruled over by Josip Broz Tito, leader of the partisan resistance…
February 26, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 26, 1988 – Characterized as a turbulent 18 hours in Panama, figurehead President Eric Arturo del Valle stunned the country by firing General Manuel Noriega…
Fiat Lux – In session BBC Radio 1 – March 1984 – BBC Radio 1 – Fiat Lux tonight. Never heard of them? Well . . .they were together for only three years. They released one mini-album and 7 singles…
Jurriaan Andriessen: Sinfonietta Concertante – Hein Jordans, cond. Amsterdam Concertgebouw – 1951 – Radio Nederland – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – More music of Dutch composers this week. Jurriaan Andriessen was a contemporary Dutch composer, whose father, Hendrik, brother Louis,…
Mal Waldron – Jackie McLean duet – Recorded at Piazzo Dante, Verona Italy – June 25, 2001 – RAI-Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Two legends of Free Jazz this weekend; pianist Mal Waldron and alto-player Jackie McLean in…
KFWB at KMET – 1972 – Hour 12 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – KMET is your radio station – every button on your car radio is locked into 94.7 – you swear by everything they play. You trust the…