Covering rare performances by familiar figures this weekend. The music of Arthur Honegger as played by Radio Orchestra Beromünster conducted by Ernest Ansermet in this May 7, 1944 broadcast. The work at hand is Honegger’s Battements du Monde Radiophonische Dichtung für Solo, Chor, Sprecher und Orchester H 176 written in
Long before the days of freeform, sessions, endless fund-drives and NPR, almost every college in America had its own radio station – run by students as part of its curriculum. Some you could only hear on campus and some you could hear all over the state. Radio in the 1940s
Some late Big Band this weekend. A set by Harry James and his New Band, recorded at the Hollywood Palladium on November 27, 1959. Even though the acknowledged Golden Age of Big Bands was long gone, there were glimmers that it was still around, still grabbing audiences and still occasionally
