Basel Radio Symphony – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, cond. – Alexander Tcherepnine Memorial Concert – 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Russian-born/naturalized American citizen Alexander Tcherepnine this week. An historic memorial concert performed in Lausanne, Switzerland by the Basel Radio Symphony conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and featuring a
– BBC Home Service News – August 25, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection And 87 years ago on this day, news of impending war was filling the airwaves. Reports of the sudden Berlin/Moscow Pact had many wondering if it was a joke or not. The urgings of the
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May 29, 1941 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 29, 1941 – Another day with Europe engulfed in War. Skies over Crete were filled with the sight of parachutes, falling to the earth from German planes. It was the advance force to a larger
– CBS Radio: The Hidden Revolution – A Day Called X – March 18, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One thing was certain about the Cold War, there was no shortage of doomsday scenarios and no ceiling on the amount of sheer terror being slammed into the lives of
– MBS – Paul Manning News and Comment – May 6, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the world waited for news that Germany had finally, unconditionally surrendered, news was filtering in of mass surrenders, and how pockets of resistance were only going on in two places. How it
American Forum of The Air – Are Our Schoolbooks Dangerous? 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As a society, are we a fearful people? Yes. Paranoid? Yes. Vengeful? Yes. Civil? No. Has it always been that way? I’m afraid to say, yes. Of course, that’s painting the picture with
April 28, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 28, 1979 – A day of swapping spies for dissidents and a day for campaigning in the run-up to the British elections. The swap in question was a carefully negotiated agreement between Washington and Moscow
– NBC News Of The World – March 12, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As Europe and the rest of the world slowly rebuilt from the ravages of World War 2, another war was brewing – this one between East and West. The Cold War. Former allies, now wary
Finnish Radio English Service – Address by Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko – March 10, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In what became known as The Winter War, the Soviet Union launched an invasion of its neighbor Finland in November of 1939, weeks after Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland
