A journey through the history of recorded sound with James and Sean. This time we reach the 1900s, and hear Arthur Collins, Vess L Ossman, Arthur Pryor, and other stars of the late Victorian era. We even have a recording of Franz Joseph I of Austria & Hungary, made on a piece of wire. Join …
Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 8 (1900) Read More »
Jean Metzinger — La Femme au Cheval Albert Gleizes – La Chasse Marc Chagall — I and the Village Souza Cardoso – Greyhounds Franz Marc – The Yellow Cow Umberto Boccioni – The Laugh Roger de La Fresnaye – Artillery Paul Signac — Antibes the towers Paul Émile Chabas – Matinée de Septembre Henri Matisse …
A Trip Through New York City Dante’s Inferno (L’Inferno) Little Nemo The Battle The Diabolical Church Window First Indy 500 The Lonedale Operator The Fall of Troy Enoch Arden David Copperfield Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen The Coffin Ship His Trust Coronation of King George V The Odyssey (L’Odissea) Alkali Ike’s Auto As A …
If a certain war had not begun in 1914, the 1910s would likely be best remembered as a decade of progressive social unrest. Movements for workers rights and against racial segregation were now getting into full swing, and, in the UK especially, the period from 1910 to 1914 saw the most militant action of all …
Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census Read More »
1911 is an exciting time for literature, but I would venture that the most important event of the year was not Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s launch of the Futurist Manifestito, nor the publication of the first of G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown novels, and not even Virginia Stephen, Leonard Woolf, Adrian Stephen, John Maynard Keynes and …
Robert Tressell – The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists Read More »
Civic disasters in the pre-regulation days of the early 20th century are on a scale I find hard to comprehend, but the thing that shocks the most isn’t the loss of human life, it’s the careless way it was thrown away. The 145 lives lost in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York were largely …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) Listening chronologically to music in this way, one of the things I have noticed is that there are sudden lurches forward in certain years. 1911, for all its quality, is not one of those years. Most of what you can hear in this mix sounds …
January 2 – Police fight a gunbattle on London’s Sidney Street January 18 – Eugene B. Ely becomes the first person to land an airplane on a ship February 1 – Thirty people are killed in an explosion at Communipaw, New Jersey. The blast is felt 50 miles away, rocking office buildings and breaking windows …
This time, coming towards the end of the 19th Century, we present an overview of the music and history of 1898 and 1899 – minstrel shows, vaudeville, cakewalk, the horribly-named “coon songs” and an exciting new genre called “ragtime.” This is a one-off solo show from James, as Sean is ill, expect lots of talking …
Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 7 (1898-1899) Read More »
Egon Schiele – Portrait of Eduard Kosmack Umberto Boccioni — The City Rises Wassily Kandinsky — Improvisation 7 Jean Metzinger – Deux Nus Albert Gleizes – La Femme aux Phlox Adolf Wölfli — Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain Christian Sass – Osterhusumer Wasser – und Windmühle Anagoria Henri Rousseau — The Dream Henri Matisse – Music Nicolae Tonitza …
