"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – ORTF Radio Session – ORTF Lyric Orchestra, Andrè Girard, cond. – Andrée Esposito, soprano – 1962 Covering familiar ground this weekend with a broadcast recital featuring the famous French Lyric Soprano…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Jean Papineau-Couture: Concerto Grosso – CBC Chamber Orch. Cond. by Wilfrid Pelletier – 1957 – CBC Transcription Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A name that may draw a few blanks…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – 1967 Jeunesses Musicales du Canada with Paul Tortelier and Karl Engle – Radio Canada – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Over to Canada this week for a concert from the 1967 Jeunesses…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Raymond Loucheur – Concerto For Percussion And Orchestra – 1963 – ORTF Radio Session Something special tonight. I haven’t really played much in the way of 1960s contemporary French Orchestra sessions…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Boston Symphony In concert – Charles Munch, Cond. – Victoria de Los Angeles, Soprano – April 9, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection While we’re still working on more BSO…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Nathaniel Shilkret – Trombone Concerto – Sgt. Hoyt Bohannon, Trombone with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl – Leopold Stokowski, cond. July 28, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Something obscure…
Click on the link here for audio player – America’s Composers – Eastman School Symphony, Dr. Howard Hanson, cond. – March 9, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Mid-Century Americana this weekend, but way of The Eastman School Symphony, conducted…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The French National Orchestra – Andrè Cluytens, cond – ORTF Radio Session – circa 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Covering familiar ground this week. A performance of the well-known Symphony…
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 – 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…