The Zombies In Session – 1964 – Past Daily Soundbooth
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Category: Unreleased recordings
Howard Hanson And The Eastman-Rochester Symphony Play Music Of Porter, Rogers And Copland – 1945 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Another dose of Americana tonight, by way of the venerable Eastman-Rochester Symphony, conducted by none other than Howard Hanson. A recreation of a portion of the first concert given spotlighting new American composers which the Eastman-Rochester Symphony took part in on May 19, 1925. Howard Hanson was an American composer,
March 26, 1961 – Soapy Goes To Africa – Fact-Finding In A Region Roiling In Conflict.
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7580″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 26, 1961 – Meet The Press – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] The ongoing turmoil/growing pains/strife that marked the Africa Independence Movement in the 1960s continues, to a degree, to this day. But in 1964 it was all pretty fresh. There
March 24, 1994 – In A Heartbeat – Assassination Of A Candidate
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”13339″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 25, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this day, twenty years ago had much to do with shock and horror surrounding the assassination of Mexican Presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, gunned down while celebrating an election
New London String Ensemble Play Music Of Peter Warlock – 1945 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Peter Warlock: Serenade for Strings – New London String Ensemble – BBC Session – February 14, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Peter Warlock is seldom played these days, but probably more so than it was during his lifetime. Only two of his works were recorded
Humble Pie In Concert – 1970 – Past Daily Soundbooth
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Lily Bienvenu Plays Bienvenu – 1951 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Within the vast heading of The History Of Music, I don’t think there is, or will ever be, a shortage of musicians and composers whose work has gone mostly unnoticed, or at best, largely underrated. Lily Bienvenu is one of those composers. To be fair, she is known for composing
Pietro Scarpini With Nino Sanzogno And The BBC Symphony In Music Of Mendelssohn, Petrassi And Mussorgsky – 1959 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Another historic concert from the vault. This week it’s the BBC Symphony, in concert from Royal Festival Hall in May of 1959, guest conducted by Nino Sanzogno with the legendary Italian Pianist Pietro Scarpini in music of Mendelssohn, Petrassi and Moussorgsky. The program starts with the Italian Symphony of Mendelssohn.
Elastica – Live At Bristol Sound City Festival – 1995 – Nights At The Roundtable: Festival Edition
Staying with the 90s again this week and one of the less-celebrated bands of the Brit-Pop Invasion, Elastica. In mid-1992, ex-Suede band members Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch decided to form a group. By the autumn of that year, bassist Annie Holland and guitarist Donna Matthews were added. After initially
March 4, 1950 – “Brilliant Mind – Nasty Person”: The Klaus Fuchs Affair – The Ever-Present Cult Of Doom.
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7247″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 4, 1950 – Voices And Events – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for the week ending on March 4, 1950 had a lot to do with the Cold War and the ever-present threatening cloud of catastrophe which seemed to spread