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1950 proved to be conductor Serge Koussevitzky's final year at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony. The season featured four recordi...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Conductor Serge Koussevitzky championed the music of Prokofiev in Russia, France and the United States. We present three of Koussevitzky's greatest...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Bela Bartok lay dying in a New York hospital when Serge Koussevitzky paid him a visit and commissioned a new work. The composer, at least temporari...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Serge Koussevitzky's path-breaking recordings of Tapiola, Pohjola's Daughter and Symphony 7 by Sibelius are featured. Boston Symphony members Harry...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Serge Koussevitzky's passion for American music was unquenchable. We present his peerless recordings of music by Cowell, Hanson, Piston & Copland p...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Tanglewood has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony since 1936, and Serge Koussevitzky made many of his most memorable recordings there. We ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Immortal conductor Serge Koussevitzky traced a 'central line' in the music of the great composers. We present his thoughts on and recordings of sel...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Serge Koussevitzky brought Debussy to Russia for memorable concerts with his orchestra in 1913. We follow the composer's trail to Moscow and St. Pe...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Record producer Charles O'Connell's book provides at intimate portrait of the home life of conductor Serge Koussevitzky and his wife Natalie. Music...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Instrumental color was fundamental to conductor Serge Koussevitzky's art as demonstrated by his recordings of Ravel's Bolero & Mussorgsky's Picture...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Phenomenal maestro Serge Koussevitzky's gifts as an 'animateur' (animator) enliven music by Corelli, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky.
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Legendary conductor Serge Koussevitzky explains the goals he set for himself as incoming Music Director of the Boston Symphony in 1924 and performs...
- Added: Dec 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
It took a Belgian composer to convince France of the value of German musical ideals. In this episode we investigate César Franck’s legacy as a te...
- Added: Dec 05, 2023
- Length: 01:00:00
The grandmother of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, joins a special edition of I SEE U and shares her perspective on the commercialization of this cultural ev...
Bought by WLPR , Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WJCT, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KETR-FM and more
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 53:30
- Purchases: 23
The ‘Windsor Shower Companion’ ($11.49) was the first product sold on home shopping network QVC, which made its debut on 24th November, 1986, quick...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 09:30
With cutesy graphics and a female-focussed origin story, Tamagotchi was positioned as a ‘nurturing toy’ for Japanese girls when Bandai launched the...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 10:10
Pope Clement V ordered the arrest of all Knights Templar and seizure of their properties on 22nd November, 1307: a day that sealed the fate of the ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 09:11
The Monroe Doctrine on its 200th birthday. Messy American politics in 1823, messy American politics in 2023. And, Cambodia’s Great Lake, the Tonle ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2023
- Length: 58:39
A celebration of soprano Maria Callas's voice, life, and legacy in honor of her centennial.
Bought by WCLV and Interlochen Public Radio
- Added: Nov 21, 2023
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 2
Disneyland Paris, now Europe’s most popular theme park, initially haemorrhaged money – at an estimated rate of $1 million per day. But, after three...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 10:14
In this episode we uncover the incredible story of Scottish surgeon James Braid, who entered the Manchester Athenaeum on 13th November, 1841 as a s...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 10:12
In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 11:18
While the festival of Diwali is well known across the world as the festival of light another festival at the same time, the festival of the Goddess...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Workers involved in tomb construction in the Valley of the Kings staged the earliest recorded strike in history on 14th November, 1157 B.C. Having ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 10:11
Sir Anthony Blunt, esteemed art historian and a favourite of the Royal family, was publicly revealed as a Soviet spy on 15th November, 1979, when P...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 10:13
