NBC News Of The World – Evening Edition – March 27, 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day was the arrival of Philippine President Manuel Quezon and his Cabinet in Australia for what looked like an extended stay while the battle against Japanese invasion was looking
Dexys Midnight Runners – Newcastle – June 6, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – BBC Radio 1 – Dexys Midnight Runners, an extended excerpt from a concert they recorded in Newcastle on June 6, 1982 for BBC Radio 1’s In Concert Series. As much as the early 80s
Emanuel Vardi, violin – Vivian Rivkin, Piano – Alan Shulman Theme and Variations for Viola and Piano – February 18, 1942 – American Music Festival – WNYC, New York. Premiers this weekend. Violist Emanuel Vardi and Pianist Vivian Rivkin in the first radio performance of Theme and Variations for Viola
Panel Discussion – Aspects Of Contemporary (Classical) Music – 4th Annual Contemporary Music Festival – 1951 A panel discussion, given during the 4th annual Contemporary (Classical) Music Festival at Illinois State University in 1951. The panel consisted of Virgil Thompson, Roy Harris, British composer John Veale, Robert Kelley, Hubert Kessler,
Bobby Hutcherson with Harold Land – live at Antibes – July 25, 1969 – Radio France – Memorable collaborations this weekend. Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and tenor sax Harold Land, along with Stanley Cowell on piano, Reggie Johnson on bass and Joe Chambers on drums, recorded live at Juan-les-Pins Jazz festival
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Gloria Swanson – In Conversation with Dick Kollmar – Breakfast With Dorothy And Dick – WOR – June 6-7, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Gloria Swanson – in the early days of film, hers was a household name and one of the most popular actors and highest paid
KHJ – Robert W. Morgan – May 27, 1968 – Lunch – the cafeteria is mobbed. It always is. It’s wall-to-wall noise; banging plates, crashing silverware, socializing, avoiding, screwing up courage, worrying about tests. Not you – not today. Somewhere between the cashier and the Macaroni and Ground Beef it
Blackbird in session – recorded March 11, 2023 for NPO Radio 2 Music Cafe, Amsterdam – NPO Radio 2 – Heading over to the Netherlands tonight for a session recorded almost two weeks ago by the singer-songwriter Blackbird for the NPO Radio 2’s Music Cafe program. If her bio didn’t
CBS World News Roundup – March 24, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Belgrade anticipated the worst, this day in 1999. With U.S. and NATO jets getting ready to commence airstrikes on Belgrade and other points in and around Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic reached out to Moscow in an effort
