Emanuel Vardi, violin – Vivian Rivkin, Piano – Alan Shulman Theme and Variations for Viola and Piano – February 18, 1942 – American Music Festival – WNYC, New York. Premiers this weekend. Violist Emanuel Vardi and Pianist Vivian Rivkin in the first radio performance of Theme and Variations for Viola
Panel Discussion – Aspects Of Contemporary (Classical) Music – 4th Annual Contemporary Music Festival – 1951 A panel discussion, given during the 4th annual Contemporary (Classical) Music Festival at Illinois State University in 1951. The panel consisted of Virgil Thompson, Roy Harris, British composer John Veale, Robert Kelley, Hubert Kessler,
Bobby Hutcherson with Harold Land – live at Antibes – July 25, 1969 – Radio France – Memorable collaborations this weekend. Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and tenor sax Harold Land, along with Stanley Cowell on piano, Reggie Johnson on bass and Joe Chambers on drums, recorded live at Juan-les-Pins Jazz festival
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Gloria Swanson – In Conversation with Dick Kollmar – Breakfast With Dorothy And Dick – WOR – June 6-7, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Gloria Swanson – in the early days of film, hers was a household name and one of the most popular actors and highest paid
KHJ – Robert W. Morgan – May 27, 1968 – Lunch – the cafeteria is mobbed. It always is. It’s wall-to-wall noise; banging plates, crashing silverware, socializing, avoiding, screwing up courage, worrying about tests. Not you – not today. Somewhere between the cashier and the Macaroni and Ground Beef it
Blackbird in session – recorded March 11, 2023 for NPO Radio 2 Music Cafe, Amsterdam – NPO Radio 2 – Heading over to the Netherlands tonight for a session recorded almost two weeks ago by the singer-songwriter Blackbird for the NPO Radio 2’s Music Cafe program. If her bio didn’t
CBS World News Roundup – March 24, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Belgrade anticipated the worst, this day in 1999. With U.S. and NATO jets getting ready to commence airstrikes on Belgrade and other points in and around Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic reached out to Moscow in an effort
NBC – Alex Drier’s Weekly News Analysis – March 24, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As reports filled the airwaves and people sat glued to their radios this March 24th in 1945, a wave of breathless optimism spread that maybe the war, at least in Europe, would be
– Mega City 4 – In session for John Peel – July 19, 1988 – broadcast, August 2, 1988 – BBC Radio 1 – Mega City 4 in their first session for John Peel tonight. Together initially from 1987 until 1996 and then a reunion in 2006, until fate had
