Taking a short side trip from our ongoing survey of the Swiss Radio Archives and heading over to Poland for a sampling of what’s in the archives of Radio Poland. This weekend it’s a performance of Musica Sinfonica in Three Movements by composer/violinist Grazyna Bacewicz, performed by the Polish Radio
John Edgar Wideman, in a sitdown interview recorded in approximately 1969. John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and essayist. He was the first person to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice. His writing is known for experimental techniques and a focus on the
Carla Bley Trio for this Sunday – recorded at the Grenzenlos Festival in Muranu, Germany on October 12, 2013 and broadcast by RBB Berlin. I haven’t run across a Carla Bley concert that wasn’t, at the very least, loaded with whimsy and profound joy. Anybody who ever said Jazz was
