Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio News – reports on Peekskill riots – August 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Maybe it’s Summer. Maybe it’s August. But the amount of rage and mayhem taking place during this particular month gives one pause, to say the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Voices and Events – Week ending August 14, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection And sometimes Summer isn’t necessarily violent or simmering or even contentious. This particular August 14th, 65 years ago was just that; a typical August
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Nathaniel Shilkret – Trombone Concerto – Sgt. Hoyt Bohannon, Trombone with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl – Leopold Stokowski, cond. July 28, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Something obscure and long-thought lost this weekend. The Trombone Concerto by Nathaniel
Click on the link here for audio player – America’s Composers – Eastman School Symphony, Dr. Howard Hanson, cond. – March 9, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Mid-Century Americana this weekend, but way of The Eastman School Symphony, conducted by Dr. Howard Hanson and featuring two movements from the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – July 23, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Thirty years ago today we were knee-deep in anticipation of the 1984 Olympics and eye-ball deep in 1984 Presidential Electioneering. Optimism on the Mondale-Ferraro Campaign with new poll
There are probably not that many people around now who are familiar with the name Percy Mayfield. But the name Percy Mayfield is synonymous with Blues and early Rock n’ Roll. From the late 1940s through the 1950s Percy Mayfield is one of the essential figures in the history of
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Paul Creston: Fantasy For Piano and Orchestra – Martin Balsam, piano – NBC Studio Orchestra – Joseph Stulpak, cond. – July 1, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Heading over to some Mid-Century Americana this weekend. One of the bright names
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Second Sunday – The Dark Side of Love – July 8, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection According to this Radio documentary The Battered Marriage, the institution of Matrimony was taking a nosedive in 1973, starting roughly twenty
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Seatrain – Live At Fillmore East – April 10, 1971 – Band Soundboard I would venture to guess, unless you’ve been really digging into your music history and were carefully following a number of the bands who were prominent in the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Eastman Symphony – Howard Hanson, Cond. – Peter Mennin: Symphony Nr. 3 – May 14, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Back over to Rochester, New York this week for another concert by The Eastman School Symphony, led by Howard Hanson
