At the risk of turning this week’s evening post into an homage to “those who left too early”, I nonetheless ran across this very rare Tim Buckley club date from May 1975, recorded weeks before his untimely death from a heroin overdose in June. Tim Buckley was an extraordinarily gifted
Part 1 – Part 2 Back to rarities this week. A concert by the San Francisco Symphony led by its then-Music Director Edo DeWaart and featuring the legendary Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich in music of Mozart, Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. No premiers or new works – pretty much meat-and-potatoes this
6 O’Clock News – WEAF/NBC – March 8, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The big news this day was word from Supreme Allied Headquarters that The Rhine had officially been crossed by the 1st Army commanded by General Hodges . Although not disclosed the exact location where the
