"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Wilhelm Stenhammar – Piano concert No. 2 – Hans Leygraf, piano -Gothenburg Symphony – Sixten Eckerberg, cond. – 1946 – Swedish Radio Transcription Service – Something different this week. From the transcription service of Sveriges Radio in Stockholm from 1946, a radio session featuring the Gotesburg Symphony conducted by...
– President Nixon Addresses Congress – Sept. 9, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Days after delivering the bombshell announcement of adopting a new economic policy, and doing away with the Bretton Woods system of fixing foreign currency on the value of the U.S. dollar, President Nixon went before...
– CBS Morning News Roundup – August 6, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – President Truman Announcement of Atomic Bomb drop – Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 – Truman Library-Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! August 6, 1945 – the world changed forever. But you wouldn’t...
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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