A very little goes a very long way: Become a Patron! Another historic rehearsal from The Boston Symphony. This week it’s Charles Munch and the BSO rehearsing the first Boston performance of the Symphony Number 6 by Prokofiev. The rehearsal took place on June 16, 1951. The Sixth Symphony dates
– Voices and Events – December 30, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1951. With the end of this year rapidly approaching, maybe it’s a good idea to look at other years, just to get an idea that things have always been just a little crazy, a little harrowing
Diving into some Big Band this weekend, compliments of Woody Herman and His first Herd, recorded by CBS Radio at the College Inn from the Hotel Sherman in Chicago on March 27, 1947. Woody Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading groups called
The Auteurs – Associated with Early Brit-pop, but . . . The Auteurs this weekend – recorded for The Black Sessions at RFI International on May 3, 1996 Luke Haines, guitar, Piano and vocals created the Auteurs with his then-girlfriend Alice Readman on bass guitar former classmate Glenn Collins on drums, and
It was her idea. Your girlfriend was in charge – putting the Senior Class New Year’s Eve party together. She never did one before. You didn’t have a clue. She wanted festive – you weren’t a joiner. She pictured costumes. You pictured Guy Lombardo. She wanted a night to remember
The Police for this weekend’s Brunch – recorded during the Mont de Marsan Festival on August 5, 1977. Probably the first recording of a public performance by the newly formed Police, recorded during the Mont de Marsan Festival in France on August 5, 1977. For people who listen to later
– The Preatures – Live at SXSW March 27, 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR12 – Netherlands Seems like every few days there’s word of a new band coming out of Australia, and from the looks of it, it appears Oz has become the new hotbed of musical activity the
The source of many a sleepless night in the 1950s. For all the waxing nostalgic for the 1950s, it was also a decade of paralyzing fear and paranoia – fear we would be burned to a crisp or vaporized in an atomic attack – paranoia that it was going to
Getting out of the comfort zone this holiday week, and heading over to Paris and Studio 104 at Radio France International for a concert by Feu! Chatterton – recorded on October 16th of this year. If you’re not already familiar with Past Daily’s Lunchroom excursions overseas to hear what other
– BBC World Service News – December 26, 2004 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Twenty-one years ago on December 26, 2004, we were jolted from our Christmas mornings-after to learn an earthquake on the floor of the Indian Ocean measuring 8.9 struck off the island of Sumatra, triggering a Tsunami
