Tag New York City

Day Of Verdicts – Amadou Diallo – February 25, 2000

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – News reports + CBS World News Roundup – February 25, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Fifteen years ago, on February 25, 2000, after three days of…

Edward R. Murrow And The News – February 12, 1951

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Edward R. Murrow And The News – February 12, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Normally I don’t focus the news of a particular day in history…

Erich Leinsdorf With The Rochester Philharmonic Play Music Of Czech Composers – 1949 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Erich Leinsdorf and The Rochester Philharmonic – April 4, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Something not completely rare tonight, but historic nonetheless. Erich Leinsdorf was Music…

Dizzy Gillespie – Live In Paris – 1953 – Past Daily Downbeat

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Dizzy Gillespie – Live In Paris – February 5, 1953 – Radio France This one’s not only rare, it sounds amazing. The legendary Dizzy Gillespie; high-priest of…

A Grab-Bag Of Hostilities And The Passing Of A Matriarch – January 22, 1995

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR – Weekend All Things Considered – January 22, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. January 22, 1995 – a day with across-the-board hostilities, of the physical…

Robert Gordon – In Concert At My Father’s Place – 1979 – Nights At The Roundtable: Concert Edition

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Robert Gordon Band – Live At My Father’s Place – Roslyn, New York – March 6, 1979 – WLIR-FM In the odd event listening to a Piano…

Muddy Waters – In Concert At CW Post College – 1977 – Nights At The Roundtable: Concert Edition

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Muddy Waters – Live at CW Post College – October 18, 1977 -WLIR-FM More classic concerts tonight. This time (and something completely different) it’s Muddy Waters, in…

Flora – Live At Folies Bergère – 2014 – Nights At The Roundtable: Rock Without Borders

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Flora – in concert at Folies Bergère – September 23, 2014 – RFI/FIP Something lyrical and haunting from Jerusalem via Paris tonight. Flora (stage name for Liron…

The Neglect Of Reading – 1957 – Past Daily Weekend Reference Room

  . . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – Chicago University Roundtable – The Neglect of Reading – 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Even in 1957 Americans were reading less. Not the rest of the…

Week Of Wonders – November 14, 1965

. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio: Voices In The Headlines – week ending November 14, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A harbinger of things to come? Maybe. But at the time,…