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Charles Munch and The Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – June 16, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony in rehearsal this week. First broadcast on June 16, 1951, Munch leads the orchestra through their first performance of Prokofiev’s Symphony Number 6. The symphony, written...
December 6, 1957 – KOKY, Little Rock Arkansas – The Harold Hartley Show – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 6, 1957 – Little Rock, Arkansas – the year may sound familiar and the city may ring a few bells. Only 3 months earlier, Little Rock was ground zero for...
Maurice Jaubert – Jeanne d’Arc (1937) : symphonie concertante for soli, choir and orchestra – Jacqueline Brumaire, Soprano – French National Orchestra – Jean Martinon, conductor – 1952 Concert performance. Continuing our seemingly endless archeological dig through the vault and unearthing broadcasts of rarities – here’s another one which should...
Arthur Knight in conversation with René Clair – Recorded November 22, 1958 – WNYC-FM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The history of Cinema is a long one – when you think about the technical advances, the changes in style, the milestones that paved the way for new voices and...
Spirit Of St. Louis – Premiere at Egyptian Theatre – Monitor Australia – April 11, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Going to the Movies – going to a premiere. A Hollywood ritual, much more so in 1957 than it is sixty-one years later. This one is set at...
November 19, 1955 – Adlai Stevenson Address to the DNC – Chicago, Illinois – November 19, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Long before our current state of affairs – long before the scandals and accusations and domestic terrorist attacks, our Political climate, though far from perfect, was one...
November 8, 1956 – United Nations General Assembly- Emergency Session – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 8, 1956 – The situation in Hungary was quickly spiraling out of control, calling for an emergency session at the United Nations in order to figure out what recourse to...
November 5, 1958 – NBC Radio News On The Hour – President Eisenhower’s Press Conference – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 5, 1958 – Sixty years ago this day, it was a Wednesday and it was the morning after. For some, it was a prediction that the Democrats would...
Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony in Rehearsal – Schumann: Symphony No. 1 – Dec. 23, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary Alsatian-born, French-German conductor Charles Munch, in rehearsal with the Boston Symphony from this broadcast of December 23, 1950. The broadcast features the BSO and Munch...
Big Maybelle, The Moonglows, Sam “The Man” Taylor – Alan Freed – Camel Rock n’Roll Dance Party – September 4, 1956 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another installment of this iconic and historic document of early Rock n’ Roll. This one features one of the rare...
