"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News: Speaking Freely With Chaim Herzog – October 19, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the news earlier today of Sweden’s announcement of intention to recognize a Palestinian state,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio: Discussion on appointment of William Brennan to Supreme Court – Sept. 30, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When President Eisenhower announced an eleventh-hour appointment of Justice William Brennan…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Stan Kenton and His Orchestra – Live At Steel Pier – Atlantic City, New Jersey – Aug. 4, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This might take a little getting used…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio – Report On Integration – September 27, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As school desegregation began earlier in the month, the issue and resistance to it were continuing…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bud Powell – live at The Blue Note, Geneva, Switzerland – Feb.1, 1962 – RTS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Over to Switzerland this weekend for a performance at The Blue…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Meet The Press – Guest: VK Krishna Menon – July 15, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection India in the 1950s was a puzzle for many in Washington. The cozy…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Debussy: Rhapsodie for Saxophone and Orchestra – Daniel Deffayet, Sax – ORTF Orchestra, Eugenè Bigot, conductor – ORTF – circa 1962. Something familiar with this week. Perhaps not as familiar as…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR: Piano Jazz w/Marian McPartland – featuring Gerald Wilson – June 19, 2006 – NPR It was very sad news, earlier this week, hearing of the passing of one of the…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC Home Service – Kangchenjunga 1955 – June 18, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Until 1852 Kangchenjunga was considered the highest Mountain in the world. At 28,169 ft it was…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – American Forum – The Middle East – November 11, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Looking at the history books, you’d get the impression the Middle East has been in a…