Click on the link here for Audio Player – Chicago Symphony – Opening of 1977-1978 Season – Sir Georg Solti, conductor – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Chicago Symphony – Opening of 1977-1978 Season – Sir Georg Solti, conductor – Part 2 Another classic
Click on the link here for Audio Player – VJ Day celebrations – continuing – NBC Radio – August 14, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection After days of waiting, false reports, rumors, fits and starts, Japan finally agreed to the surrender terms and VJ day was announced on August
Click on the link here for Audio Player – President Roosevelt signs The Social Security Act of 1935 – August 14, 1935 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Since it’s been a bone of contention and the target of avid attempts at dismantling it, here’s a reminder of what all the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Emerson, Lake And Palmer – Live At Beat Club, 1970 – RBB Berlin When you consider that Emerson, Lake and Palmer were the first Progressive Supergroup to emerge on the scene in 1970 (Keith Emerson from the then-recently broken up Nice,
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Delannoy: La Pantoufle de vair – ORTF Orchestra – Jean Giardino, cond. – circa 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Largely forgotten today, the music of Marcel Delannoy was wildly popular during the 1930s. So popular, that Maurice Ravel once said he
Click on the link here for Audio Player – LBJ signs The Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution – August 10, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Fifty years ago this week, the seemingly innocuous event of signing a bill pledging support of the South Vietnamese government from further intrusions by the
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Los Angeles Philharmonic – Kiril Kondrashin, cond. – Ilana Vered, Piano – July 12, 1979 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player: Los Angeles Philharmonic – Kiril Kondrashin, cond. – Ilana Vered, Piano – July 12, 1979 –
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CBS World New Roundup – August 7, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News on this August 7th in 1945 was about the event that had taken place less than 24 hours earlier in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Atomic Bomb,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Frank Sinatra, in concert for The United Nations Refugee Fund – Monte Carlo – June 14, 1958 Something special, classic and rarely heard this weekend. Frank Sinatra performing at a benefit for the United Nations Refugee Fund in Monte Carlo, hosted
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Blur – In Session at The BBC – Simon Mayo Program BBC 2 – 1990-1995 I thought I would take a break from Festival Season tonight and run something familiar . . .more or less. Blur were (and sill are) one of
