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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Faurè: Impromptu No. 3 : Debussy: 3 pieces: Excerpts from a broadcast recital tonight by renowned Hungarian/French Pianist Livia Rèv, recorded around 1951 by ORTF (Radio France), circa 1951. Livia Rèv is regarded as something of an institution. In her…
– Guy Ropartz – Quartet No. 6 – Pascal String Quartet – 1951 – ORTF Radio – Paris – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another overlooked composer who has been getting some attention in recent years. Guy Ropartz was all but…
– New Year’s Eve – 1957 – NBC Radio – All Star Parade of Bands – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – There was a time New Years Eve meant a world-wide sweep of all the notable Jazz dives, and a…
– CBS Radio – This Was 1955 – December 30, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Starting our look at year-ends gone by – here is what December 30th 1955 sounded like. Another set of notches in the Cold…
– Buddy Holly – The Apartment demos – December 1958-January 1959 – Without question, Buddy Holly was one of the most influential figures in the early days of Rock n’ Roll. That his career was cut short by a tragic…
UN Security Council – Emergency Session – NBC Radio Report – Nov. 1, 1956 – November 1st in 1956 was met with the boiling crisis in the Middle East. Trouble in the Suez region of Egypt had hit crisis point…
Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin – Monique Haas – 1952 – ORTF, Paris – I originally posted this several years ago on my old site. Since that site has long since been dismantled and the posts left something to…
– News for October 1, 1959 – October 1, 1959 was no box of chocolates. First was the ongoing Steel Strike, becoming the longest in history. President Eisenhower ordered everyone back to the bargaining table to keep trying for a…
Robert Casadesus – Quintet for Piano And Strings – Gaby Casadesus and The Pascal String Quartet – Back to French Radio transcriptions this week with a work by legendary pianist Robert Casadesus, who was not as well known as a…
All-Star Parade Of Bands – Louis Jordan and His Tympany 5 – Live at Sardis – July 9, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – From one of the pioneers of Jump-Blues and small-combo Jazz, bubbling under the radar in…