1906

Radio Podcast #14 – 1906

  MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS Another journey back in time with James Errington bringing you original historic recordings, this time from 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake. We have a brace of songs from the brilliant Bert Williams, plenty of music hall and …

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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 14 (1906)

Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 14th September 2019 Place: Cambridge 105fm Another journey back in time with James Errington bringing you original historic recordings, this time from 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake. We have a brace of songs from the brilliant Bert Williams, plenty of music hall and vaudeville, and a performance of …

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1906 in Art

Pablo Picasso – Self-Portrait with Palette Henri Matisse – Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt Paula Modersohn-Becker – Self-Portrait on the sixth wedding anniversary Edvard Munch – Self-portrait with a bottle André Derain – Charing Cross Bridge Claude Monet — Water Lilies Jean Metzinger – La dance (Bacchante) Robert Delaunay — L’homme à la tulipe Mikhail …

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The best laid plans

The visibility of stagnant and trenchant attitudes in the “progressive era” mean that reference to it in 2018 almost requires the use of those scare quotes. There really was a lot of progress happening in some areas, however, and this conservatism was in large part a reaction to genuine radicalism being pushed into mainstream consciousness …

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Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

Not the first animation ever, not exactly the first on film (Pauvre Pierrot holds this record, though it was figures projected on painted backgrounds), “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” is nevertheless the inception of the animated short. With a framing device of the artist drawing on a blackboard, it prefigures artistic animation rather than the …

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Elsewhere in 1906

January 12 — A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis. January 16—April 7 — The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany. January 22 — The SS Valencia strikes a reef …

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