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1. radiOM.org - The Age of the Talking Machine A Review of Vintage Recordings [5.069% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Age of the Talking Machine: A Review of Vintage Recordings Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 46 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Byron Bryant and Will Ogden review vintage recordings from the beginning of the 20th Century, focusing on the early cello recording of Pablo Casals, made between 1915 to 1926. Although the quality of the recordings made with an assortment of early technologies are scratchy at times, the strength of the performances, especially those by Casals, can not be denied. At a time when many great performers were heard only in the concert halls, and for that reason their reputations are perhaps diminished in the minds of many today, the genius of Pablo Casals was thankfully captured in these vintage recordings. Thus cementing his reputation as one of the greatest cellists of all time. Bryant and Ogdon play a selection of these very early recordings, comparing different performers, and commenting on the quality of the various techniques used to obtain these precious aud...

2. radiOM.org - Gertrude Stein 100th Anniversary Concert [5.049% Popularity: 0.00000]

Gertrude Stein 100th Anniversary Concert Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 121 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA This four part program is of a live broadcast from a concert given at 1750 Arch Street on February 3, 1974, in honor of Gertrude Stein on the 100th anniversary of her birth. During the intermission and while the audience viewed the film "The Last Still Life" by Ann Sandifer, Charles Amirkhanian plays a recording of a Suite from Virgil Thomson's opera, "The Mother of Us All", based on a text by Gertrude Stein. The live concert then concludes with an additional work by Thomson and one by Charles Shere. Part 1 of 4: Musical Selections: Miss Gertrude Stein as a Young Girl (1928) / Virgil Thomson -- A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (1922) / Gertrude Stein -- Preciosilla / Gertrude Stein -- Preciosilla [text by Gertrude Stein] (1926) / Virgil Thomson -- She She and She (1974) / Charles Amirkhanian -- Sonata No.3 (1930) / Virgil Thomson Performers: Ron Erickson, violin (Stein as a young...