1901

Radio Podcast #9 — 1901

MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS James and Sean take you on a journey back to the year 1901 to listen to original, unmediated, often completely unacceptable recordings from the early days of the gramophone. This time we have rousing sort-of proto-proto-proto-jazz, stunning vocal acrobatics from a …

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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 9 (1901)

James and Sean take you on a journey back to the year 1901 to listen to original, unmediated, often completely unacceptable recordings from the early days of the gramophone. This time we have rousing sort-of proto-proto-proto-jazz, stunning vocal acrobatics from a Russian soprano, vaudeville comedy which may or may not have stood the test of …

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1901 in Art

Gustav Klimt – Judith and the Head of Holofernes Pablo Picasso – The Blue Room Winslow Homer — Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo – The Fourth Estate Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Kullervo Rides to War Joseph Farquharson – The Shortening Winter’s Day is Near a Close Camille Pissarro – Hay …

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The Films of Mitchell & Kenyon

Here’s a wonderful thing. In 1994 a stack of negatives was found in a cellar by workmen demolishing a shop. The prints turned out to be the largest surviving collection of actuality films anywhere in the world, and their restoration is almost certainly the best window on to life in Edwardian England. Sagar Mitchell and …

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The Assassination of President McKinley

President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz on September 6th, 1901, during a visit to the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. He died eight days later of gangrene caused by the gunshot wounds. He was the third American president to have been assassinated in forty years – …

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Elsewhere in 1901

The funeral of Queen Victoria is held at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later. Annie Edson Taylor, a 63-year old schoolteacher from Bay City, Michigan, became the first person to plunge over Niagara Falls …

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