Become a Patron! Continuing this week with American Composers of the 1950’s. This broadcast, part of the America’s Composers series features the Eastman School Student Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson in music by Student composers, studying at the school at the time of this broadcast on March 16, 1953. In
Click on the link here for Audio Player: With the first open and democratically held elections in Pakistan in several decades coming up this Saturday (May 11), I ran across this very early interview, less than three years after independence was declared for Pakistan and the neighboring India.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: One of the early practitioners of Dreamscape and Experimental Electronica, Cocteau Twins came very much to be synonymous with the 80s and the Atmospheric turn the decade took in music. Embracing a minimalism in their music, Cocteau Twins and the
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for this particular May 3rd in 1946 was about the Middle East, primarily the area of Palestine. And the news wasn’t good. With tensions between Arabs and Jews mounting, with violence breaking out seemingly everywhere in the region, and
Click on the link here for Audio Player: An example of a somewhat short-lived genre from the early 1970s, one that translated well in the States. PubRock was very big in the UK – it was basic stripped-down/no-frills Rock n’ Roll, concentrating on upbeat numbers that appealed to
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Tonight it’s a session that has gone down in musical history as being more infamous than famous. Although the collaboration of two highly influential figures in the fledgling Progressive Movement was no small event, the fiasco that ensued probably spoke
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Continuing our monitoring of activity during this Festival season, I ran across this concert recorded Saturday at Le Printemps de Bourges Festival in France. A two-day Festival (Saturday and Sunday), one of the headliners was the Irish Indie band Villagers,
Back to premiers this weekend. This one; the Western Hemisphere First Performance of the 2nd String Quartet of Dmitri Shostakovich. Regarded as one of the most important Modern Composers of the mid-twentieth century, NBC Radio devoted several broadcasts premiering Shostakovich’s small ensemble works. This premier of the 2nd String Quartet
Click on the link here for Audio Player: I will admit, it took a very long time before I could listen to Carole King without feeling as though I had been subjected to overkill. When her milestone album Tapestry was released, it was one of the most played,
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Okay – this might be a bit of a jolt, from the decidedly calm and soothing sounds of Ravel to the somewhat frantic and insane sounds of Gaye Bykers On Acid. Nobody ever accused this site of being boring .
