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NBC Symphony, guest conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos with Astrid Varnay, soprano – December 23, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A historic concert from the fabled NBC Symphony. This one featuring guest Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos and Soprano Astrid Varnay…
December 19, 1944 – Somewhere in Belgium. News from the Western Front was sketchy, filled with rumors and, for the most part, blacked out. Hints that a major German offensive was taking place, catching Allies by surprise and inflicting severe…
Become a Patron! Another of the lately-less known French composers featured this weekend. Rene Challan is probably better recognized among collectors as the producer of some of the great recording sessions to come out of France in the 1950’s and…
Reports from Greece – December 15, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Greece became a center of attention for a while in December of 1944. With the rest of the world engulfed in fighting in the Pacific and the…
– News for Dec. 13, 1947- Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day was dominated by the goings on in Europe. Primarily over the Foreign Ministers Conference in London, which wasn’t going as well as expected. But also,…
– Nuremberg Trial report – Mutual News – December 13, 1945 – December 1945 marked the continuation of one of the most famous trials in modern history.Starting in November, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial assembled high ranking and influential members of…
News for Dec. 12, 1946 – NBC/KFI – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This day in December, 1946 was loaded with news of Union talks, threats and pickets. President Truman beginning the process of dismantling the maze of Government agencies set…
December 12, 1941 – Esso Newsreel and various reports from NBC Blue and Red Networks – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 12, 1941 – five days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and news of an expanded war…
– News for December 9, 1941 – Reports and bulletins – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 9, 1941 and America had a bad case of nerves. Rumors flew of hostile plane sightings all up and down the West Coast,…
On this day in 1944 it was the third anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the event that got the U.S. involved in World War 2. So on December 7, 1944 war was raging on all fronts, along with…