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Claudio Arrau, Piano – Boston Symphony – Seiji Ozawa, Cond – Berkshire Music Festival – August 26, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Back to something historic this week. The Boston Symphony during the 1977 Berkshire Music Festival, with Music Director Seiji Ozawa leading the BSO with the legendary...
Seiji Ozawa and The Boston Symphony, with Maurice André, Trumpet – Evening At Symphony – October 14, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – More history this week – The Boston Symphony under the direction of their then-Music Director Seiji Ozawa and featuring Maurice André as Trumpet solo in Tartini‘s...
The Golden Age of TV – live at Reading Festival/BBC Introducing Stage – August 26, 2017 – BBC Radio 1 More new faces on the horizon this week. From the Reading/Leeds Festival from a few weeks ago, a new band from Leeds. The Golden Age Of TV are a post-Rock...
Cud – In session for John Peel – June 16, 1987 – BBC Radio 1 – Cud to end the week. Formed in 1987 and getting their first recording session based on a demo tape sent to John Peel, who booked the band and got word-of-mouth started from the June...
The Experimental Pop Band – In Session for John Peel – February 1, 1997 – BBC Radio 1 – The Experimental Pop Band to start the week. Originally conceived as a Studio project known as The Southwest Experimental Pop Band by former Brilliant Corners members Chris Galvin and Davey Woodward,...
Slade – in concert from Golders Green Hippodrome, London – May 28, 1972 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Slade to end out the week. One of those bands who were massively popular everywhere else in the world, but the U.S. in the 1970s – transitioning over from a...
Robert Plant – Live At Glastonbury 1993 – BBC Radio 1 – Robert Plant tonight. I can’t remember the last time I posted a Led Zeppelin concert, and I don’t think I ever have. Not that I was never a fan of the band, but that it’s been my assumption...
The Last Party – In Session for John Peel – January 9, 1989 – BBC Radio 1 – The Last Party. Together from 1985 until 1996 when, rather than break-up, they changed their name to The Bitter Springs and have carried on ever since. Formed in 1985, the London-based Alternative...
The Futureheads – in session for Steve Lamacq – March 7, 2003 – BBC 6 Music – The Futureheads tonight. One of the more turbo-charged bands of the Post-Punk Revival era, The Futureheads got started in 2000 and went on a solid non-stop run for 13 years before heading into...
Rudolf Firkusny, Eudice Shapiro, Leonard Rose and guests – 1964 Shakespearean Music Festival – CBC Transcription Service A historic festival appearance this week. The 1964 Stratford Shakespearean Music Festival in Canada, featuring a stellar ensemble of soloists, headed up by pianist Rudolf Firkusny, violinist Eudice Shapiro, Cellist Leonard Rose and...
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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