1900s

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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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 8 (1900)

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 …

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1909 in Art

Zinaida Serebriakova — At the Dressing-Table: Self-portrait Ambrose McEvoy — Euphemia Anna Archer – The Artist’s Mother Ane Hedvig Brøndum in the Blue Room Henri Matisse — The Conversation Giacomo Balla — Street Light George Bellows – Blue Morning Pablo Picasso – Brick Factory at Tortosa Henri Rousseau – The Banks of the Bièvre near …

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1909 in Film

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy Les Joyeux microbes A Trap For Santa Le Locataire diabolique The Sealed Room The Cowboy Millionaire Teddy Roosevelt in Africa Fools of Fate La Papillon Fantastique Mr Flip The Red Man’s View The Airship Destroyer The Hessian Renegades Oliver Twist The Doctor’s Secret The Golden Louis A Midsummer Night’s …

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Ida B Wells & Sophia Duleep Singh

The true pioneering heroes of the Edwardian Era were not The Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison or Henry Ford. This supposedly tranquil time was in truth the most turbulent age of social activism between the Civil War and the 1960s, and naturally the real drivers of this new “Progressive” age were less likely to be old, …

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Elsewhere in 1909

January 6 – The Great White Fleet, consisting of 16 U.S. Navy battleships sailing the globe in a display of American naval power, successfully completed its passage through the Suez Canal, passing from the Indian Ocean into the Mediterranean Sea January 9 — The British Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, …

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1908 in Art

Gustav Klimt — The Kiss Georges Braque – Maisons à l’Estaque Pablo Picasso – Trois femmes Egon Schiele – Still Life George Bellows — Steaming Streets Ernst Ludwig Kirchner — Street, Dresden Ervin Plány – Breton Women Kazimierz Sichulski – Ryby Claude Monet – San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk Felix Vallotton – The Rape of …

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