Paul Sacher (L) – Willy Burkhard (R). -Two leading lights in Swiss Music Back to the Swiss Radio Archives tonight for a performance of Die Schwarze Spinne – Suite by Will Burkhard, performed by the Basel Radio Orchestra, conducted by Paul Sacher from a broadcast of May 16, 1955. Composer
A few words from Tom Wolfe this weekend, from the program Comment in 1971. In the 1960s and early 70s, people who weren’t initially drawn to literature or literary criticism found the writer/journalist Tom Wolfe a wordsmith whose work you couldn’t put down. At a time when literary boundaries were
The John Coltrane Quartet this Sunday – recorded live by Sveriges Radio at the Konserthuset in Stockholm on November 19, 1962. featuring McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones, drums. An artist I don’t post nearly as much as I should, John Coltrane has been such
