Another historic concert this weekend. The legendary French cellist Pierre Fournier with the Orchestra of Swiss Italian Radio conducted by the equally legendary Herman Scherchen in a performance of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto – recorded at Teatro Apollo in Lugano, Switzerland on April 25, 1962. Sasha Margolis of the magazine Strings
– Press Conference featuring Dimitri Shostakovich, Tikhon Khrenikov and Dimitri Kabalevsky – Philadelphia – November 6, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As part of the Cold War thaw, the Cultural Exchange Program was an idea brought about to bring understanding of all aspects of Soviet life to America
Confessions of A Rock n’ Roll Namedropper is part-memoir/part history-book by Radio producer/personality/writer/journalist Laurie Kaye. Against the backdrop of the last interview she conducted with John Lennon before his tragic murder, it paints a thoroughly delightful (as well as factual) picture of Rock and Radio in the 1970s as well
Mulgrew Miller this holiday weekend. Accompanied by bassist Rodney Whitaker and recorded in concert at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center on April 21, 2001 by Jazz At Lincoln Center. *Ben Ratliff, writing for The New York Times, commented that, “As a composer, Mulgrew Miller is difficult to peg;
