Kup’s Show – Interview/Discussion – Internment/Preventive Detention In 1942. Broadcast July 29, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With public outcry growing in recent weeks over the detention, internment and forced separation of families and children over immigration, and the surprise checkpoints and raids carried out by ICE; all
NHK Symphony – Subscription Concert – Dec. 2, 2017 – Charles Dutoit, guest Conductor – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano – NHK-FM, Tokyo – Taking a detour over to Tokyo this week for a concert by the celebrated NHK Symphony, guest conducted by Charles Dutoit and featuring Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano. The concert
Radu Lupu, Piano – NHK Symphony, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch – November 4, 1994 – NHK-Radio, Tokyo – Another classic concert this week. From Tokyo, the legendary NHK Symphony, guest conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch and featuring the great Romanian pianist Radu Lupu in an all-Brahms program, broadcast on November
June 21, 1945 – Announcement of Surrender of OKinawa – June 21, 1945 – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 21, 1945 – Word had flashed across newswires that the island of Okinawa, after some 82 days of endless siege, with some 250,000 casualties, Okinawa fell to the
June 13, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup + First Line Report – Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 13, 1980 – Three was the charm for Mt. St. Helens. The infamous Volcano that covered much of the Pacific Northwest in a snowy-like coating of ash and
Shonen Knife – in session for John Peel – September 1, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – Shonen Knife tonight. A Japanese Pop-Punk band, around since 1981, who were hugely influenced by 60s girl groups and The Ramones and they had a pretty solid following in their native Japan as
News for December 7, 1941 – Plus First bulletin and reports – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 7, 1941 – this day 75 years ago. The further away we get from those pivotal moments in our history, the more they fade from our collective memory
Discussion: A failure of U.S. Propaganda Abroad – Open Mind – 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1960 was considered by many at the time to be a strange year. We were going through our ritual of selecting candidates for President, while at the same time, absorbed in debates
August 23, 1986 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 23, 1986 – 30 years ago today – the big news was the disclosure and only the most perfunctory acknowledgement of a Chinese newspaper report that a U.S. Citizen was convicted in China on
Part 1: Part 2: Gerhard Oppitz, piano with the NHK Symphony, guest conducted by Sir Neville Marriner in music of Mozart and Brahms, recorded by NHK, live from Suntory Hall on November 25, 2015. Back over to Tokyo this week for a concert of staples, as given by German pianist
