"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Teddy Charles Quartet – When Your Lover Has Gone – from Word From Bird – Atlantic 1274 – 1957 Kicking off the week on a West Coast Cool School note tonight…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Meet The Press – John Foster Dulles – June 24, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As America became rapidly embroiled in yet-another shooting War, this time in Korea, then-Ambassador-at-large John…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Roy Harris – Overture: When Johnny Comes Marching Home – Eastman Symphony – Howard Hanson – May 27, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection More Americana this weekend. This time featuring…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Charles Munch and The Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – March 17, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Schubert in rehearsal this week. The Boston Symphony under Charles Munch along with soloists…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Charlie Parker w/Woody Herman’s Third Herd – Kansas City – July 22, 1951 – Main-Man Records A historic rarity this week, recorded under less-than-ideal conditions, but grateful it exists at all.…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Georgie Auld – Blue and Sentimental – Coral Records – 1953 Not that I got out of my way to collect them, but I’ve been running across quite a number of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Hollywood Bowl – Los Angeles Philharmonic, Serge Koussevitsky, guest Conductor – Issac Stern, violin – September 9, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Click on the link here for Audio Player…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Howard Hanson and The Eastman School Orchestra – Pioneers Of Music – May 27, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection More Americana, by way of The Eastman School of Music, and…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Jerry Mengo et son Orchestre – Un Ciel Bleu en Hiver – 1953 – Ducretet-Thomson Records Continuing our archeological dig through piles of shellac this weekend, and probably next week too.…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Louis Mennini – Arioso – Howard Hanson, cond. Eastman School Symphony – February 9, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection More Americana tonight, by way of Louis Mennini, an American composer…