"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Part 1 – Part 2 Back to rarities this week. A concert by the San Francisco Symphony led by its then-Music Director Edo DeWaart and featuring the legendary Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich in music of Mozart, Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky.…
– The World This Week – CBS Radio – January 25, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 25, 1976 – and the end of another week of wild contrasts. The week began with a gloomy assessment of the…
April 19, 1979 – KNX-Newsradio – 9:06 am-10:00 am – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 19, 1979 – It was a busy day – Middle-East Peace proposals and the third day of voting in Rhodesia were the big news…
Yes, Let’s – in concert at Paris Theatre – 1985 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – Yes, Let’s in concert to start the week. Don’t feel badly if they ring no bells with you.…
Blur – In Concert from Cologne, Germany- August 22, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Blur this weekend – with a concert broadcast from Cologne, Germany and recorded on August 22, 1991 – at The Blue Shell. According to…
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – In Session for Marc Riley – Feb. 27, 2018 – BBC 6 Music – Unknown Mortal Orchestra to end the Working Week – A band that’s been high on everyone’s radar since they first made their…
Daughter in concert at the BBC 6 Music Festival – Bristol – 2016 – BBC 6 Music – Daughter in concert from Bristol tonight. Since Christmas day is over – the hysteria and the expectations have come and gone. And…
Nat King Cole Demo Session – I Wake Up Screamin’ After Dreaming Of You – Studio & Artists Recorders, Hollywood – circa 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something of an oddity and rarity this weekend. Nat King Cole…
Charles Koechlin – Memorial Concert – 1952 – ORTF – Radio Paris – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Over to Paris this week for a portion of the Memorial Concert for Charles Koechlin, who died in December of 1950 and…
Yo Soy Chicano – NET – August 11, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – So while many of you are busily celebrating Cinco de Mayo; hoisting Coronas, inhaling Guacamole and hunting down Taco Trucks, consider for a minute the…