"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”8941″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”July 1, 1961 – Baukhage Talking – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for July 1, 1947 – H.R. Baukhage – ABC Radio – (Gordon Skene Sound Collection) During a day where…
BBC World Service: London Column – June 21, 1945 While the war in the Pacific was heading into its final stages, the slow task of rebuilding Europe was only beginning. The painstaking dismantling of the vestiges of War were underway,…
George W. Chadwick – A Vagrom Ballad – NBC Studio Orchestra – Henri Nosco – June 28, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Before the likes of Aron Copland, Roy Harris and many other composers of the “modern period”…
Paul Hindemith: Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp and Orchestra – CBS Symphony, Thor Johnson – World Premier – May 15, 1949 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Something special this weekend. A world premier performance of the Concerto for…
Another dose of Americana tonight, by way of the venerable Eastman-Rochester Symphony, conducted by none other than Howard Hanson. A recreation of a portion of the first concert given spotlighting new American composers which the Eastman-Rochester Symphony took part in…
In a day where news of an estimated 100,000 Japanese troops landed on Java, word of continuing attacks on Port Moresby and one inch closer to a threatened invasion of Australia, the nighttime raid on France by British Commandos came as…
To the heavy, cumbersome, oversized and thoroughly enjoyable BBC Transcriptions this week for a concert by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by the legendary and amiable Sir Thomas Beecham in an all-Mozart program, recorded on April 28, 1947. Starting off…
Recovering from a bad case of the Flu, President Roosevelt delivered the 1944 State of The Union address from the Oval Office, rather than in a Joint Session of Congress. The war had been going on for 3 years and…
Sadly, the French conductor Roger Desormiere didn’t fully transition over to the era of the lp record before having his career cut short by a debilitating stroke. He was one of the most widely respected conductors in France, going from…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”5521″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 30, 1948 – America Votes – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Harry Truman had ascended to the presidency in April 1945 after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Defeating attempts to…