"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The tape of this concert has been sitting in a box, on a shelf, in the vault for the better part of thirty years. I had assumed it was an advance copy of the album Le Orme In Concerto which came out in 1974, and both my tape and the...
Anna Tsybuleva in recital – 2016 Ruhr Piano Festival – WDR3 New bright lights on the horizon this week. Rising star, Ann Tsybuleva in recital at the 2016 Ruhr Piano Festival. The highly acclaimed and gifted pianist has been making waves, ever since her debut in 2012. Praised by Murray...
H.W. van Loon Commentary – Reigns Of Terror – March 18, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Reigns of Terror. In March of 1938 it was the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany – it led us to the brink of war, but was avoided by allowing Hitler the...
Vittorio Giannini – An Opera Ballet (World Premier) San Francisco Symphony – Edwin MacArthur, cond. – August 27, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Vittorio Giannini – a name mostly forgotten, but one of the leading lights of the Neo-Romantic movement in American classical music in the early and...
Stereolab – live at the 1996 Phoenix Festival – July 20, 1996 – John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – Stereolab in concert tonight. Recorded by the BBC at the 1996 Phoenix Festival. Sterolab began in 1994, as a sort of take-off on German electronica bands of the 1970s. Combined...
– Culture In America: An Assessment – 1960 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Culture in America, circa 1960. Even 55 years ago, we were starting to ask questions about our accomplishments as a people – what contributions had we made as a society; not just of...
– Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Live At Auditorium Theatre, Chicago – November 15, 1976 – Neil Young is arguably one of Rock n’ Roll’s greatest songwriters. With a catalog of unforgettable songs going back decades, Neil Young continues to be a vital force and endless reservoir of great...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band – Live at My Fathers Place – November 18, 1978 – WLIR-FM There was a time you couldn’t mention Frank Zappa without mentioning Captain Beefheart somewhere in the same sentence. After...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Mothers Of Invention – Live at l’Olympia Paris – October 26, 1968 – ORTF, Paris I just ran across this concert a few weeks ago hadn’t heard it in a while. Anyone who is a fan...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – John Lewis – Midsommer – from the album European Windows – February 1958 – RCA-Victor John Lewis, aside from being a founding member of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet was a musical renaissance man of sorts. Along with his milestone collaborations...
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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