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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Mark Twain 100th Birthday Dinner – November 19, 1935 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In case you forgot, November 30th will be Mark Twain’s 179th birthday. In…
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Press Conference featuring Dimitri Shostakovich, Tikhon Khrenikov and Dimitri Kabalevsky – Philadelphia – November 6, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As part of the Cold War…
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 – Pat Martino Trio – In Concert at Lotos Jazz Festival – Feb. 20, 2014 – Polskie Radio Something different tonight. I ran across this concert by Guitar legend Pat Martino, recorded…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – New York Philharmonic, Guido Cantelli, guest Conductor – March 15, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection While we’re busily digitizing the next batch of Boston Symphony In Rehearsal programs, I ran…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Boston Symphony in Rehearsal – Richard Burgin, assoc. Cond. – Joseph Battista, piano – April 14, 1951. For this week’s rehearsal, Associate Conductor Richard Burgin leads the Boston Symphony in…
More rehearsals with The Boston Symphony this week. Charles Munch leads the BSO in a rehearsal of Bruckner’s Symphony Number 7, in a live broadcast from March 10, 1951. Programmed by Munch during his years at the Boston Symphony but…
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 – Charles Munch and The Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – June 2, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Continuing, not only our historic Boston Symphony rehearsals this week, but continuing with the…