"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
April 22, 1940 – Radio Berlin – Radio Paris – EIAR, Rome – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 22, 1940 – News from Germany this day, via Radio Berlin told of the situation unfolding in Norway and how it was now down to a battle between ships and airplanes....
FDR – Address on Pan-American Day – April 15, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On April 15, 1940, President Roosevelt addressed the leaders of the Pan American Union on its 50th anniversary gathering. Saying that the 21 American Republics must be prepared to ‘meet forces with forces’ he...
April 15, 1940 – BBC World Service News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 15, 1940 – With the German invasion of Norway some six days old, the Allies were trying to maintain a foothold. Combined forces of the Navy, Army and Airforce were providing much needed assistance in...
Norman Dello Joio – Ricercari For Piano And Orchestra – Germaine Smadja, piano – Henry Swoboda and The “Concert Hall Symphony” – Concert Hall Society Release D-6 – 1950. Continuing our break from broadcasts and staying with small American labels featuring noteworthy American composers, once again Concert Hall Society and...
Jubilee – Lionel Hampton and Dinah Washington – October 16, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If it wasn’t for the Armed Forces Radio Service, started during World War 2, a vast treasure trove of our cultural heritage would be lost forever. Because the service was aimed at troops...
Boyd Raeburn And His Heb-Boyds in session for Lang-Worth Feature Programs Inc. – 1944-1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Boyd Raeburn and his Hep-Boyds this weekend – slight change of pace, but an artist I’ve featured a number of times over the years. Here are seven tracks recorded for...
April 5, 1947 – Radio Moscow – News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 5, 1947 – News from Radio Moscow. Unless you had one of those Shortwave radios that could pick up every country in the world, you might not have been able to actually hear what was...
London Letter – Essay By John Connell – April 6, 1949 – BBC Radio North America Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The lure of the Travel Poster of the 20th century – for Americans it was sun-washed depictions of the Southwest; the sun-and-fun lifestyle so far removed from...
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger: Soros Flowers (arr. Orch.) – Swedish Radio Symphony – Sten Frykberg, cond. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Over to Sweden this week for some radio performances of less-known works from Sweden with the Swedish Radio Symphony conducted by Sten Frykberg in this 1948 radio broadcast via Sveriges...
Howard Hanson and The Eastman-Rochester Symphony w/Jacques Gordon, Violin – Festival Of American Music – 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Howard Hanson leads the Eastman-Rochester Symphony with Jacques Gordon as violin soloist in the broadcast portion of the final concert from the 1946 Festival Of American Music. Beginning...
