1936 Music Guild Awards – Mitya Stillman – 1st Prize Winner – The NBC String Quartet – January 1, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1936 Music Guild Awards – the 1st Prize winner was Russian emigre Mitya Stillman, who settled in the U.S. shortly after the Russian
Alois Reiser – 1936 Music Guild Awards – 2nd Prize – String Quartet op. 18 – Roth String Quartet – Jan. 1, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The 1936 Music Guild Awards, as broadcast on January 1, 1937. This is the second of three programs where the winners
1936 Music Guild Awards – Rudolf Forst: String Quartet – The Gordon String Quartet – January 1, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection 1936 Music Guild Awards. Begun in 1934 by NBC to promote serious music to a mass audience, The NBC Music Guild put together a series of awards
Jay McShann – live at Kool Jazz Festival 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Jay McShann – the legendary pianist, band leader and singer would have turned 100 on January 12th of this year. His contributions to Jazz, as well as to the popularity of Jump-Blues are far-reaching.
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Graff Spee – eyewitness accounts – December 14,1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Early on during the war in Europe, over the week of December 14th 1939, an epic sea battle was played out in the waters around Uruguay. The German battleship Admiral Graff Spee had been tracked down
– Salzburg Festival 1938 – Mozart: Don Giovanni -Act 2 – Aug. 15, 1938 – Berlin Radio/NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Salzburg Festival, 1938 this week. Touted as one of the great innovations in broadcasting, the idea that someone in Los Angeles could hear, as
– Congressman Maury Maverick on Neutrality in America -November 11, 1935 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even as far back as 1935, with only the beginnings of what would become another World War, there was already resistance to our involvement in anything that didn’t deal with us directly. Taking
– Helen Traubel – RCA Magic Key program – August 30, 1936 – Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Back to legendary singers of the Stage from the 1930s. This week it’s Helen Traubel. Known primarily for her Wagnerian roles, Traubel was a very popular singer who
– President Roosevelt – Fireside Chat – October 12, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – You can read along while you listen: President Roosevelt: “This afternoon I have issued a Proclamation calling a special session of the Congress to convene on Monday, November 15, 1937. I do this in
