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Become a Patron! The stunning news, on this October 16, 1964, was the revelation that Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev had been removed from office in what many believed to be a bloodless coup on the parts of hardliners. Afraid that Khruschev was getting a little too soft toward the West,...
May 28, 1989 – Newsmark – Memorial Day at Arlington – Homeless Women – other stories – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 28, 1989 – Today is Memorial Day. And even though you are no doubt firing up the grill, laying out the picnic table, opening...
Eugene Ormandy, guest Conducts The Boston Symphony – February 26, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another historic Boston Symphony concert this week. This time it’s the legendary Eugene Ormandy guest conducting the orchestra in music of Samuel Barber, Richard Strauss and Johannes Brahms. Almost no other conductor in the...
Nuria Graham – Live At Primavera Sound – 2017 – June 2, 2017 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – New faces and voices tonight. This one comes by way of Spain – Nuria Graham is Irish/Catalonian and 22. Having released her first record in 2013, at the tender age...
The Flaming Lips -Live at Off Festival, Katowice, Poland – August 8, 2010 The Flaming Lips this weekend. Recorded in concert at Off Festival 2010, Katowice Poland on August 8, 2010. Proclaimed in Q Magazine to be one “the 50 bands you need to see before you die”, The Flaming...
May 10, 1939 – World Congress Of Writers Dinner – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Unless you are an English Major or a Writer or reader with a voracious appetite, the above names may mean nothing to you. In 1939 they represented the vanguard of established writers in the...
April 1, 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy Press Conference – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 1, 1968. A day after President Johnson announced his decision not to seek re-election, the focus was now on Robert F. Kennedy, who announced his candidacy on March 16th. On March 31, President Johnson...
Jim Noir – Cheese Of Jim’s Command – Tea -from Jimmy’s Show – 2012 – Townsend Music (UK) – Perennial favorite Jim Noir to end the weekend. I was checking around and I don’t see anything more recent than a 2015 single release, but that doesn’t really mean anything since...
Casella: Scarlatiana – Alexis “Sigi” Weissenber, piano – San Antonio Symphony – Max Reiter, cond. – March 26, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Piano legend Alexis Weissenberg, as he sounded when he had turned 20 and had made his American debut with the New York Philharmonic only a year...
Eddie Harris Quartet – Live at Lugano, Switzerland – July 1, 1989 – RTS – Switzerland – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Eddie Harris this weekend. Don’t know about you, but my first encounter with Eddie Harris was by way of Exodus To Jazz, an album he did for Vee-Jay...
