Part One: Part Two: Another historic concert this week. This one from 1958, featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent and featuring the legendary Hungarian pianist Andor Foldes in a program of music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Beethoven and Bartok. Beginning with the first performance outside the Soviet
A sampling of FM radio during the 1950s when it was all high-brow or hip – Jazz from KNOB-FM Long Beach in May of 1959.
The legendary Singer-Composer with two sides from his Musart Period.
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Become a Patron! Over to Geneva Switzerland for a historic concert by Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by their Music Director of many years Ernest Ansermet and featuring the legendary Artur Rubinstein, piano in a concert recorded April 27, 1960. It was rebroadcast as part of the ongoing RTS
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[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”49225″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”News for February 13, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! Despite General MacArthur‘s spin that “we are continuing a war of maneuver”, a new phrase had entered into the Korean War Slang dictionary; “Buggin’ out”. On this February day in 1951,
