"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – MBS – Raymond Gram Swing News and Comment – June 30, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day seventy-five years ago was about increasing tensions throughout Europe. The…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Chateau de Sceaux Festival – Girard String Orchestra, Andrè Girard, Cond. – 1952 – Paris Radio Taking a brief tour far back in history, all the way to the 18th Century…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Boston Symphony in Rehearsal – Richard Burgin, assoc. Cond. – Joseph Battista, piano – April 14, 1951. For this week’s rehearsal, Associate Conductor Richard Burgin leads the Boston Symphony in…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Can – Live at Lyon, France – January 17, 1976 – Band soundboard. One of my favorite bands of all time tonight. Can were part of that initial wave of Progressive…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBC Radio Canada – Interview with Buckminster Fuller – 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The name R. Buckminster Fuller might draw a few blanks with some people in recent years.…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bobby Womack (w/Sly Stone) – Live At The Roxy – 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection I’m not sure if it’s always been this way, or are we losing a lot…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Members – Live At Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco – Aug. 15, 1980 – ©Terry Hammer Archive Continuing our odyssey through live Punk circa 1979-1981, as captured in the Bay…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Gang Of Four – Live At American Indian Center, San Francisco – May 22, 1980 – ©Terry Hammer Archives One of the things I love about this arcane world of archiving…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Eastman Symphony – Howard Hanson, Cond. – Peter Mennin: Symphony Nr. 3 – May 14, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Back over to Rochester, New York this week for another…
More rehearsals with The Boston Symphony this week. Charles Munch leads the BSO in a rehearsal of Bruckner’s Symphony Number 7, in a live broadcast from March 10, 1951. Programmed by Munch during his years at the Boston Symphony but…