Cornelius in concert at Royal Festival Hall tonight. Staying off the beaten path and diving into (potentially) lesser-known territory (although fans would beg to differ, and rightly so). Cornelius, or Keigo Oyamada is a dyed-in-the-wool practitioner of Shabuya-kei, that genre of music that can only be described as purely Japanese
Danish Radio Symphony In Concert – Marianna Shirinyan, piano – Nadezhda Serdiuk, mezzo-soprano – Danish Radio Symphony Choir – Hans Graf, conductor – Broadcast live – February 8, 2013 – DR P2 – Radio. Over to Copenhagen this week for a concert featuring Danish-Armenia phenom Marianna Shirinyan along with Hans
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Missing Presumed Dead – in session for John Peel – January 6, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – Leaving Ukraine this week for an excursion around the lesser-known bands and artists the past few decades. Missing Presumed Dead, like so many other bands of the period, formed out of the
News Of The World – NBC – May 2, 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 2, 1942 – Despite weather, it was a busy day on the fighting fronts around the world. From the Pacific came rumors that Mandalay had fallen to the Japanese. In an address, Adolf
Théo Ysaÿe – “Fantaisie sur un thème populaire wallon” pour grand orchestre, op. 13 (publ. 1907) – NBC Studio Orchestra – Dr,. Frank Black, cond – August 1, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Over to the somewhat lesser known luminaries this weekend. The music of Théo Ysaÿe as
WOR – John A. Gambling 40th Anniversary show – March 9, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It was different then. Talk radio was coming into its own by 1965. The seeds had been planted in the 1920s and by the time 1965 had rolled around Radio consisted of
KMET – B. Mitchel Reed – June 11, 1975 – Rob Frankel Collection – You’ll be the first to admit you had a lot of edges to smooth out. High School was one big pressure cooker. You studied all the time – you swore up and down you had no
As news poured in on a daily basis regarding sweeping advances and the almost total destruction of Berlin and the German Army, it was only natural that news and rumors of surrender would begin to surface, this day in 1945. Early on the morning of April 28th unconfirmed reports surfaced
April 27-29, 1942 – Radio Australia – Radio Tokyo – Voice Of China, Chungking – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another sweep of the shortwave dial for this late April in 1942. Beginning with Australia Today from Radio Australia. Upbeat news on the positive affect of coordinated Allied air attacks
