"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Rudolf Firkusny with Guido Ajmone Marsan and The San Francisco Symphony – 1978-1979 Season – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A rather short concert this week – short, in the sense that only two pieces survived and the third piece (the Mendelssohn “Scottish” Symphony) was sadly incomplete and badly damaged....
August 1, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup; Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 1, 2001 – Dog days of summer and reports of tragic circumstances on the playing field. In this case it was pre-season Football practice and the tragedy surrounded Minnesota Vikings Offensive Tackle Korey...
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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