March 21, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 21, 1942 – Busy day on the fighting fronts. First, with news from Britain that the Admiralty disclosed British submarines had sunk two large German supply ships in the Mediterranean and news that the German
Charles Bukowski – talks about his life and reads his poetry – KPFK – Sept. 7, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Charles Bukowski – probably one of the most influential, controversial and misunderstood writers of the 20th century. His work was banned, lambasted, vilified and ultimately celebrated by
Pink Floyd – In Concert at The Amsterdam Concertgebouw – September 17, 1969 – VPRO, Hilversum, Holland – Mid-point Pink Floyd this weekend. A concert given at the legendary Amsterdam Concertgebouw in September of 1969. Most Pink Floyd fans either know the Syd Barrett period or the Dark Side Of
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– JFK Press Conference – March 14, 1962 – On this day in 1962, President Kennedy delivered his 27th News conference. He opened by reading a portion of a letter to Secretary of State Dean Rusk regarding the upcoming disarmament conference in Geneva and the goals the White House was
Christian Manen – Piano Concerto – Aline van Barentzen w/The ORTF Symphony, Pierre Dervaux, cond. – 1965 – ORTF – The music of Christian Manen this week – a French composer, still very much with us and with a prodigious output of some 180 (and counting) compositions for Orchestra, soloists,
– WABC – Alan Freed and dial-hopping – March 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1959 – last year of a decade; a decade that started with a war in Korea and was ending with the Cold War. A nervous decade – and like most teenagers at the time,
News From Radio Austria – News From Radio Prague – March 11, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. The ominous tones in news for this March day in 1938 were inescapable. The situation in Europe had escalated and a new word was injected into the world vocabulary; Anschluss. The annexation
– March 10, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 10, 1990 – The continuing and developing story of the breakaway Soviet republics got its latest chapter in the form of Lithuania, whose Parliament voted on a Declaration of Independence to leave Moscow and
Rafael Kubelik with The Chicago Symphony – Smetana: Ma Vlast (Complete) – Broadcast of October 27, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week. Former Music Director of the Chicago Symphony in the early 1950s, now guest conducting the orchestra in the first of 5 concerts
