Day: August 4, 2024

From a broadcast recorded September 21, 1958 from Salle du Pavillon, Montreux by RTS – a performance of Franck’s D Minor Symphony with Orchestre National de la RadioDiffusion Française, conducted by Pierre Monteux. As a student at the Paris Conservatory, Pierre Monteux studied violin and viola. At the age of

It probably had a lot to do with the prevailing fear of nuclear obliteration at almost any time. The offshoot was the feeling that, since we weren’t going to be here for very much longer, let’s have fun while we can. Not that the West Coast didn’t already have a

Kicking Sunday off with a set by The Fergus McCreadie Trio, in concert from Bremen and recorded in May of this year by the venerable Bremen 21 in Germany. Further evidence I can’t be everywhere all the time. Fergus McCreadie is a name new to me, but I understand he