"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
A Night At The Ash Grove with Les Claypool – KRHM-FM – October 24, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Anybody living in Los Angeles from the 1950s through the 1970s will instantly recognize The Ash Grove. It was one…
– Sen. Ernest Lundeen Discusses Future of Television and The FCC – April 6, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When Television was in the experimental stage – when it was just at the dawn of being realized as…
You’d think, after over half a century, a subject like this would be a moot point. Problem recognized. Problem addressed. Problem solved. America prides itself on being anti-intellectual. But sadly, no. If anything, the problem has only become magnified, these…
– JFK Remarks on Space Program – Sept. 12, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With a pledge to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade, President Kennedy took a keen interest in the…
– JFK – The State Of The Economy – Aug. 13, 1962 – The Economy, it seems, is always the prevailing topic of political conversation. Where are the jobs, where is the stimulus, where are the tax breaks, where is…
Something special and rather rare. A concert, recorded by Bavarian Radio in Munich on January 19, 1950, featuring the Coleman Hawkins All-Stars featuring James Moody, Kenny Clarke, Nat Peck and Pierre Michelot. Truly an all-star lineup. A little over an…
– News for Aug. 7, 1954 – August 7, 1954 – Aside from Indo-China news the other big news (at least for the U.S.) was the weather. Signs that things were turning around in the Midwest for the worst drought…
– Gyorgy Sandor in Recital – WNCN-FM, New York – November 9, 1983 – More history this week. The celebrated Hungarian Pianist Gyorgy Sandor in recital at New York station WNCN-FM and was broadcast on November 9 , 1983. Unlike…
– Hubeau – Violin Sonata – Another rarity this weekend – and another broadcast recital from French Radio in the 1950’s. This one features rising-young-star Renèe France Froment on violin with legendary pianist-pedagogue Louise Clavius-Marius on Piano in a performance…
Khatia Buniatishvili Recital at The Verbier Festival July 24, 2012- RSM – Espace 2 This week it’s a Concert Recital from the much-talked about and discussed Kathia Buniatishvili, recorded live from the stage by Radio Suisse Romande’s Espace 2 at…