"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– New York Philharmonic – Soloists and Chorus conducted by Charles Munch. Artur Honegger: Joan Of Arc At The Stake (U.S. Broadcast premier) – January 4, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection I hesitated to run this for several months…
Subscribe: Become a Patron! Part 1 Cleveland Orch. Ehrling/DeLarrocha – Feb. 23, 1978 – Part 1 Part 2 Cleveland Orch, Ehrling/DeLarrocha – Feb. 23, 1978 – Part 2 Another historic concert this week. The Cleveland Orchestra, guest conducted by Sixten…
– The Nightmare – Alphonso Trent’s Orchestra – December 5, 1928 – Taking a mini-break and diving into some 20’s Hot Jazz, via Alphonso Trent’s Orchestra in a 1928 recording The Nightmare. Although probably not well known today, in the…
– Speaking Freely – Edwin Newman interviews Pierre Boulez – May 6, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s difficult to imagine the world without Pierre Boulez – he had always been considered one of those firebrands of Contemporary…
– Roy Harris – Fantasy – The ABC Radio Symphony – Conducted by Roy Harris – October, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Roy Harris was one of the true original and most inventive composers of that period from…
– Dimitri Mitropoulos and The N.Y. Phil – Perpessa: Christus Symphony – Dec. 10, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Dimitri Mitropoulos leads the New York Philharmonic this week in the Radio premier of a new work by Greek…
Become a Patron! Another of the lately-less known French composers featured this weekend. Rene Challan is probably better recognized among collectors as the producer of some of the great recording sessions to come out of France in the 1950’s and…
Paul Paray with Arnold Steinhardt, violin and The Detroit Symphony – Nov. 12, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, with Paul Paray, leading the Detroit Symphony this week in music of Bach, Mendelssohn and Mahler. The concert…
– BSO In Rehearsal – Charles Munch, conducting – March 2, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This week’s installment of our Boston Symphony In Rehearsal series features the BSO under Charles Munch rehearsing two wildly different pieces on…
George Olsen And His Music – Sugar Plumb – 1925 – RCA Victor – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Since the Studio/Past Daily Nerve Center has been undergoing renovations, I’ve been stumbling over buried shelves of old 78’s this week –…