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1963 Vienna Festival – Berlin Radio Symphony – Hans Werner Henze, cond. Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something historic this week. A concert from the 1963 Vienna Festival featuring the Berlin Radio Symphony, conducted by composer Hans Werner Henze with Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin in a program...
February 28, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 28, 1942 – While the news was coming in over the threatened Japanese invasion Java in the Pacific, a bulletin had flashed just towards the end of this newscast. Giving little in the way of...
Suarez – Saludos En La Nieve – from the album Horrible (1995) – FAN Discos (Argentina) – Suarez was one of the most interesting and engaging bands to come out of Buenos Aires in the 1990s. Pity they weren’t discovered this side of the border, and for the most part,...
China Crisis in concert tonight, live at Reading in 1984. Part of that initial wave of Liverpool acts from the 1970s and 80s, China Crisis were at the forefront, along with OMD, of the Synthpop explosion taking place around that time. Achieving a moderate amount of success in the UK,...
June 7, 1947 – ABC Radio – News Of Tomorrow – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 7, 1947 – news for this day was about survival and about reconstruction. Secretary of State George Marshall was in Paris to discuss the plan for aiding the war-torn European countries and to...
The Changing Presidency – NPR-National Town Meeting – 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Presidency. In 1975, with the country reeling over Watergate and the White House now occupied by someone not elected to the highest office, the question arose as to just how much power the President...
Harry Truman’s Civil Rights Legislation – Chicago University Roundtable – February 6, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Harry Truman’s Civil Rights legislation. It was the fulfillment of a promise Truman made while campaigning for election (re-election) in 1948. It succeeded in alienating the South. So much so, that...
– Vienna Symphony – Cond. Carlo Maria Giulini – Concert of June 21, 1977 – Austrian Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another classic concert this week – The Vienna Symphony, guest conducted by the legendary Carlo Maria Giulini in two works: Tchaikovsky: Symphony Number 2 “Little Russian” and...
No arm-twisting, but . . .Become a Patron! May 13, 1965; we were embroiled in another Latin–American conflict. This time it was the Dominican Republic and a coup with leanings towards a Civil War which erupted in April. In the early morning of April 27, 1,176 foreign civilians who had...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Guarnieri – Flor de Temembé – NBC Studio Orch. Josef Stulpak, Cond. – June 24, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. The name Camargo Guarnieri may not be completely familiar to a lot of people, but it...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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