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Dreyma – in session – RNE Radio 3, Madrid – March 4, 2019 – Radio Nacional España – Dreyma to wind up the weekend. I ran one of their concerts last year and had very high hopes for them, calling the band a work-in-progress. A year later, they’ve arrived. This...
Howard Hanson and The Eastman-Rochester Symphony w/Jacques Gordon, Violin – Festival Of American Music – 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Howard Hanson leads the Eastman-Rochester Symphony with Jacques Gordon as violin soloist in the broadcast portion of the final concert from the 1946 Festival Of American Music. Beginning...
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra and Gramercy Five – Spotlight Bands – September 19, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Artie Shaw this weekend. Widely regarded as “one of jazz’s finest clarinetists”, Shaw led one of the United States’ most popular big bands in the late 1930s through the...
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