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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
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…
– 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…
– Horace Silver Quintet – live at Konzerthaus, Vienna – March 11, 1968 – ORF Radio The amazing Horace Silver in concert this weekend. Recorded live at Austrian Radio’s Konzerthaus on March 11, 1968. Can’t add anymore than what Chris…
On this March 4th in 1942, the war was a little under 90 days old for the U.S. and already nerves were running high. The news regarding the Japanese invasion of Java had gained ground against the allies who were…
Boston Symphony – Aaron Copland, guest Conductor – January 2, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection- More historic concerts this week. The Boston Symphony, led by the legendary Aaron Copland in a concert of his own music, as well as…
– Joni Mitchell – Live In London – June 16, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – What a week it’s been. One of those week’s where tuning out is not only a necessity, it’s practically a requirement. I ran across…
– Reynaldo Hahn – Piano Concerto – Jean Doyen, Piano – French Radio Orchestra, Eugène Bigot, cond. – 1952 – ORTF – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This weekend it’s a performance of the not-so-obscure Piano Concerto by the early…
February 25, 1979 – CBS Radio – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With grossly inflated casualty and capture claims coming from both sides, the war between China and Vietnam was heating up, this week in…
– News Of The World – NBC Red Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 11, 1942 – news for this day was ominous, sketchy and strange. The situation in Singapore was described in London as growing worse, but…
– Darryl Way’s Wolf – In Concert At The Paris Theatre, London – 1973 – BBC Radio 1 – Some of the lesser luminaries of Prog-Rock tonight, by way of Darryl Way’s Wolf. After leaving late 60’s/early 70s Folk/Prog/Psych band…