Music
Folk Ballad Collection
Discover the rich tapestry of cultural storytelling in the Folk Ballad Collection, a curated anthology featuring both sung and spoken folk b…
Delmore Brothers
The Delmore Brothers, Alton and Rabon, were country music pioneers and stars of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s. Born into poverty in Elkmon…
The Fringe of an Art
A collection of essays on things musical by Vernon Blackburn, including composers, music in different time periods, and modern music. (Summ…
Personal Recollections of Johannes Brahms
George Henschel, a well-known pianist, singer, composer, and conductor was close friends with Johannes Brahms from 1874 to 1897 and he provi…
Physiology of the Opera
Trust Scrici for a tell all, no holds barred exposé of the modern opera . . . well, modern as of . . . er . . . say, 1852. (Summary …
Big Show
Tallulah Bankhead trades jokes with Bob Hope and joins him in song. Van Johnson performs in a wartime play from the film, "Go For Broke…
The Life of Mozart
Volume 2 in the 3 Volume Set on the Life of Mozart, one of the greatest classical composers of all time. - Summary by Mozartjr
The Roy Rogers Show
In this episode of The Roy Rogers Show, Roy sings "As I Go Singing Down The Road." The cast becomes concerned when they keep heari…
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
A collection of the letters which Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy wrote while in Italy and Switzerland. Mendelssohn, a multifaceted talent of th…
Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks
In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowde…
Birds Eye Open House
Dinah Shore has invited Groucho Marx for Thanksgiving dinner and he has insisted on supplying the turkey. Groucho arrives late with a live t…
J.S. Bach
Second volume of an analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach's life and musical compositions, and of the artistic, philosophical, and religious wor…
Chopin
In this insightful biography, James Huneker delves into the life and artistry of Frédéric Chopin, the renowned Polish composer…
CBS Radio At Fifty
Walter Cronkite hosts this 3 hour retrospective on the history of CBS Radio from its beginnings up through to the date of this broadcast. Th…
Richard Strauss
There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bede…
Jazz Today
Episode #85 of Jazz Today was broadcast on August 19, 1958, on KOMO in Seattle. This episode features a variety of jazz performances and dis…
Jazz Today
Episode #154 of "Jazz Today" is hosted by Bill Coben on KOMO, Seattle, and was broadcast on April 16, 1959. This episode highlight…
AFRS-V-Disc-8
The Army was the original source of the V-Disc records, with their first being issued in October of 1943. The Army's V-Disc project provided…
The Seven Lively Arts
“... But, beside those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a…
Charles Dickens and Music
This is a detailed exploration of the references to music in the novels of Dickens: songs, instrumental pieces, performers, composers, and m…