February 24-25, 1942 – In a series of events, later to be known a The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, or The Battle of Los Angeles, residents from as far north as Santa Barbara and as far sound as Laguna Beach bordered on hysteria as Air Raid sirens went off,
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Procol Harum – In concert at l’Olympia, Paris – August 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the sad news today of the passing of Procol Harum lead-singer and co-founder Gary Brooker, it only seemed fitting to run this concert, recorded by ORTF, Paris in August of 1967 as
– Boston Symphony – In Rehearsal – Charles Munch, conducting – May 12, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another rehearsal from The Boston Symphony. This week, it’s a rehearsal for the U.S. Premier of the Symphony Number 5 by Swiss-French composer Arthur Honegger, and it was first broadcast
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– KRLA – Jimmy O’Neil Program – October 9. 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s 1961. You’re sixteen. You’re the one on the left in the picture. You’re brooding. There’s something in the air – maybe it’s Cuba, maybe it’s Berlin – you know it’s the world and
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– 1960 Prague Spring Festival – The Czech Philharmonic – Kirill Kondrashin, cond. – Mstislav Rostropovich, cello – Czech Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another Historic concert this week – The celebrated Czech Philharmonic, led by distinguished Soviet conductor Kirill Kondrashin and featuring the legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich
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