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Valery Gergiev and The London Symphony – Music Of Debussy and Shostakovich – Aix en Provence Festival – July 23, 2011 – Radio France Musique. Celebrated conductor Valery Gergiev leads the London Symphony in music of Debussy and Shostakovich at the 2011 Aix en Provence Festival – recorded on July...
LBJ and The 89th Congress – CBS Radio: Capitol Cloakroom – January 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The crazy-quilt of Politics. In 1967 it was the end of the 89th Congress and the beginning of the 90th Congress. It was the Johnson Era – of groundbreaking legislation that...
February 5, 1942 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 5, 1942 – depending on what part of the world you were in, your view of the War was varying differently, and the scale from optimism to downright pessimism was fluctuating...
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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