Another historic concert this week. Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in this broadcast from October 24, 1978 featuring guest conductor Antal Dorati and Soprano Jessye Norman in music of Haydn, Wagner, Ravel and Beethoven. Starting with Haydn’s Symphony Number 96 and the orchestra is joined by Jessye Norman for a
On this day in 1957, all eyes in the country were focused on a high school in the middle of Little Rock Arkansas. Crack paratroopers with fixed bayonets on this day held back crowds of white persons at Central High School and escorted nine African-American students in and out of
Busy month for scandals, revelations and upheavals. September in 1963 was no different, it seems. On this day in September, the McClellan Crime Committee Hearings on Capitol Hill were going full speed ahead, with star witness, organized crime figure Joseph Valachi poised to give bomb-dropping evidence on the activities of
Sly & The Family Stone – live at Harlem Cultural Festival – June 29, 1969 – Sly & The Family Stone were the staple in just about every diet of anyone who went to the Fillmore in San Francisco or the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles from 1967-1969. They
