Beatrice Uria-Monzon with Michel Plasson conducting Orchestre National de Lyon – In Concert from Paris – March 6, 2011 – Radio France Musique Over to Paris this week for a special concert featuring the Spanish-born Mezzo-soprano Beatrice Uria-Monzon and the Orchestre National de Lyon led by the legendary Michel Plasson.
President Franklin Roosevelt – Address to the White House Correspondents Dinner – Feb. 12, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 12 was Abraham Lincoln’s birthday – this address given by FDR on the occasion of Lincoln’s Birthday was also an assessment of the recently concluded Casablanca Conference. Here
February 13, 1941 – Generalissimo Franco – Marshal Petain Summit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 13, 1941 – With the war escalating in Europe, and the U.S. still reasonably out of it, reports of a meeting between Spanish dictator, Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Vichy French Premier Marshal Petain
Our Foreign Policy – Proposal For The St. Lawrence Seaway And Power Project – March 9, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The St. Lawrence Seaway, a 189-mile (306-kilometer) stretch of the Seaway between Montreal and Lake Ontario is recognized as one of the most challenging engineering feats in
February 12, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 12, 2001 – An interesting day for the courts and the Music Business in general. Popular song-file swap service Napster was spared from an immediate shutdown today, but a US appeals court ruled
The Adventures – In Concert from the BBC Paris Theatre -1988 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – The Adventures in concert to start off the week. The Adventures were a Northern Irish rock band, formed in Belfast in 1984. The band later moved to London where they signed
Clark Kerr – Guest on Face The Nation – CBS Radio – February 5, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The name Clark Kerr may not ring bells with many people these days, but in the 1960s he was at the epicenter of what became a political storm of
John Knowles Paine – Overture to Oedipus Tyrannus – Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson – from the album American Music For Orchestra – RCA Victor -M-608 – Recorded circa 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Taking a small side-step from our usual broadcasts this Sunday, this one comes
Wayne Shorter Group – Featuring Larry Coryell – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival – July 20, 1990 – RTS-Radio Switzerland Wayne Shorter this weekend, featuring the late Larry Coryell in a concert recorded live at Montreux on July 20, 1990. Here’s what Bluenote has to say about Wayne Shorter: Though
