"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Starting off the weekend with the inimitable Koko Taylor, live in Bordeaux, France on November 15, 1993. The whole thing (or about an hours worth) recorded live from the stage…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Something rather short and rare tonight. From a broadcast recital from Paris Radio (ORTF) given by the legendary French Soprano Ninon Vallin in 1952 are two songs (sorry): Debussy: Les…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”8561″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”June 5, 1961 – News Inn Review – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] It would be nice. . .Become a Patron! Further evidence that history on any particular day isn’t about one…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Not the world premier recording (that happened in 1934 and that performance may not exist), but instead the performance by the dedicatee, who conducted the same orchestra as the premier.…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: On this May 30 in 1961, in what began during JFK‘s campaign as a promise to visit Paris and shore up sagging relations withFrench President DeGaulle, quickly became sidetracked when…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Back to Paris this week for another installment of French radio performances of the 1950s. This time it’s the music of Jeanine Rueff, who is probably best known as a…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Festival season is roaring along. This week from Brussels, Belgium and the Nuits Bontanique Festival 2013. Tonight it’s a set by Belgian Indie/Alternative/proto-Psych band Vismets, recorded on May 8th…
Become a Patron! Since most mainstream media will be focusing on the end of the War in Europe in 1945, May 7th also marks another anniversary; one that had far-reaching consequences during the years and decades directly following it. The…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Well, now that Festival season is in full swing, adjusting schedules, setting timers, studying lineups and crossing fingers that the multi-tasking doesn’t overload the computer has become a full-time task.…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Continuing our monitoring of activity during this Festival season, I ran across this concert recorded Saturday at Le Printemps de Bourges Festival in France. A two-day Festival (Saturday and Sunday),…