"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Part 1: Part 2: A concert this week featuring the highly regarded French conductor Stéphan Denève leading the French National Orchestra in a program of all French works. Do I spot a pattern here? I think so. Starting with the…
May 23, 1938 – News For Radio Berlin, Shortwave English Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Berlin – May 23, 1938. Gathering clouds for a crisis. The situation between Germany and Czechoslovakia over the disputed Sudeten region was heating…
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. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Mutual/Vatican Radio – Coronation of Pope Pius XII – March 12, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Upon the Death of Pope Pius XI, the former Cardinal…
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – January 5, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. On this day 15 years ago, the on-going tug-of-war between relatives of Elian Gonzalez,…
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Patti Smith: O Holy Night – Dec. 25, 2013 – Vatican Concert Only fitting to go into Christmas with an unforgettable rendition of O Holy Night by…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Pope John Paul II Addresses United Nations General Assembly – October 5, 1995 – NPR – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Billed as the last address he would give at a gathering…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CBS – Drama at The Vatican – Dec. 10, 1964 With the current wave of scandal and turmoil going on at The Vatican, it’s interesting to note that scandal and turmoil are…