The CoS Tapes are a series of CD-sized compilations available to Centuries of Sounds Members. A donation $5 per month will give you access to these compilations and other member benefits. Join here. Another compilation of early recorded music – this one has a selection of virtuoso xylophone solos, from the time when this was …
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Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 17th August 2019 Place: Cambridge 105fm Another sonic adventure through time with James Errington, this time joined by guests Dominic, Joanne & Adam to listen to the sounds of 1905 and discuss such pressing topics as skeleton xylophones, the hubris of Dick Dastardly, melancholy in Spanish music, the latter-day lack of …
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January 1 — The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. January 10 — In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia inflicts a defeat on the Ottoman Empire. January 13 – Ottoman Empire forces defeat the Allied British in the Battle of Wadi. February …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) The story of recorded must prior to 1917 has been, on a personal level, a juggle with two opposing narratives. First there is of course the convoluted journey towards the explosion in jazz and blues of the late 1910s and 1920. Then there’s the other …
Juan Gris – Still Life with Checked Tablecloth Wyndham Lewis — The Crowd Marc Chagall — The Poet Reclining Giorgio de Chirico — The Double Dream of Spring C. R. W. Nevinson – Bursting Shell Jean Metzinger — Soldier at a Game of Chess Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Self-portrait as a Soldier C. R. W. …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv9qK-FtNls The Tramp A Fool There Was The Italian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMwheMudYhU Carmen The Champion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAGq2tyEBVQ Filibus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5vcsYwmpMg Fatty’s Spooning Days Assunta Spina Regeneration The Cheat Der Golem The Raven The Martyrs of the Alamo Madame Butterfly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJD5cVJflg The Golden Chance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWfvmqez1wo Work Sage Brush Tom
Taking a break from the war for a moment, the excellent Between The Liner Notes podcast has a history of Joe Hill, the songwriter whose work would inform the political side of folk music for the rest of the century, who was executed for a murder he almost certainly did not commit in 1915. Between …
The 1964 BBC TV Series The Great War may sometimes feel a bit hokey and outdated in its narrative style, but with the centenary over and done with, it looks like its position is still unchallenged as the definitive documentary of the conflict. Beyond anything else, it’s priceless in its collection of original accounts from …
Not only is there no defending The Birth of A Nation in 2019, it’s wildly offensive even for 1915. A film made to glorify the Klu Klux Klan by claiming that they saved the USA from (appalling racist caricatures of) unruly black people, it was picketed by the NAACP on release, but was enough of …
If you’re looking for stupid, pointless wastes of human life in the First World War, you really are spoilt for choice, but, even among such inauspicious company, the Gallipoli campaign manages to stand out as particularly stupid and particularly pointless. To sum up: The Ottoman Empire sort-of-accidentally entered the war on the side of the …
