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It keeps us up and running: Become a Patron! July 8, 1978 – Big news from Italy on this day. After 15 ballots and three weeks of bitter political in-fighting, Italy elected, by overwhelming majority, 81 year old Sandro Pertini as head of State. It would be Italy’s 7th President...
Ennio Morricone leads the RAI Symphony in Torino – with soloists – March 24, 2012 – RAI Radio 3 – As promised earlier today, a concert featuring Ennio Morricone leading a program of his own work. It was recorded in Torino on March 24, 2012 and broadcast live by RAI...
Can we get a hundred Patrons this month? Become a Patron! June 25, 1944 – busy day on all battlefronts. Starting with rumors that Cherbourg had fallen to the Allies. German radio reported the loss, while General Eisenhower’s staff were keeping mum until it was a 100% done deal. Up...
Sonny Stitt Quartet – live at Umbria Jazz Festival – July 30, 1974 – RAI – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Sonny Stitt in concert this week – an all-too-short set from the Umbria Jazz Festival, recorded on July 30, 1974 by the venerable RAI in Rome,...
Jimmy Giuffre Trio – Live at Teatro Adriano, Rome – June 19, 1959 – RAI Jimmy Giuffre Trio this weekend. With Jim Hall, guitar and Buddy Clark, bass – recorded by RAI on June 19, 1959. Giuffre first became known as an arranger for Woody Herman’s big band, for which...
Leif Ove Andsnes In Recital – Recorded at Accademia Nazionale de Santa Cecilia – 2011 – RAI Radio – Become a Patron! Lef Ove Andsnes in recital this week in a program of music by Brahms, Schoenberg and Beethoven. Starting with Brahms’ 4 Ballads op. 10 – and after intermission...
If we’re helping keep your mind off things, maybe chipping in a buck of five would be a good idea, no?: Become a Patron! Characterized as a tinderbox by the State Department, Turkey, Italy, Greece and the Balkan region were hot in the grips of rioting on this March 19th...
April 22, 1940 – Radio Berlin – Radio Paris – EIAR, Rome – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 22, 1940 – News from Germany this day, via Radio Berlin told of the situation unfolding in Norway and how it was now down to a battle between ships and airplanes....
Archie Shepp – Quintet With The RAI Big Band – Live In Venice, Italy – March 3, 1980 – RAI Radio – Archie Shepp this weekend. In Concert from Venice, Italy on March 3, 1980 featuring his Quintet (Archie Shepp, tenor and soprano saxophones, voice, and PIANO on Round Midnight,...
August 2-6, 1939 – News/commentary from Radio Berlin – BBC, London – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 2-6, 1939 – days when tensions between Germany and Poland were heating up over the city of Danzig (now Gdasnk). The issue was one where Germany claimed Danzig was theirs and Poland...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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