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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– America The Violent-1969 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Perhaps not as bad as it is now, but violence seems to be just as integral a part of American society as the automobile. The question has…
The Paris Conservatory Orchestra, lead by the legendary Andrè Cluytens at the 1951 Besancon Festival in a performance of La Peri by Paul Dukas. Andrè Cluytens belongs to the era when style and musicianship coupled with impeccable phrasing were the…
August 28th will mark the 60th anniversary of the legendary March on Washington. The largest Civil Rights demonstration of its kind up to this point, the march culminated in a day of speeches in front of the Lincoln Memorial and…
– News for August 25, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A momentous day in history with a lot going on seemingly everywhere, this August 25th in 1944. Word on the liberation of Paris, with a crazy mixture of…
Something special and rather rare. A concert, recorded by Bavarian Radio in Munich on January 19, 1950, featuring the Coleman Hawkins All-Stars featuring James Moody, Kenny Clarke, Nat Peck and Pierre Michelot. Truly an all-star lineup. A little over an…
– American Forum of The Air – Is Government Favoring Big Business? – NBC Radio August 7, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Funny how it’s always been speculated on and feared over, but it happens anyway. In 1955,…
– August 14, 1945 – Mutual – 12 Noon-2:00pm – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – NBC Radio – News – August 14, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this August 14th, 78 years ago, was like…
– Sonny Rollins Trio – In Session for Swiss Radio, Zurich – March 5, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The legendary Sonny Rollins this weekend, recorded in session for Swiss Radio on March 5, 1959. Joining Sonny (as in…
This has not been a good week for music. With the news earlier today of Robbie Robertson’s passing, social media has been filled with tributes, memories and recollections of one of the key figures in Rock of the later 60s.…
A special concert this week from the archives of Radio Suisse Romande (RSR Espace 2). Recorded on February 8, 1956 and featuring legendary conductor Ferenc Fricsay leading Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in music of Bartok, Liszt and Brahms. Famed…