Time: 8pm GMT, Saturday 30th January 2021Place: Cambridge 105 Radio Sound curator James Errington presents the story of recorded music year by year. This time we go back to 1924, the year of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and music critic John Lewis tells us about why this piece, this recording and this composer have …
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Kazimir Malevich – Black Circle Wassily Kandinsky — Contrasting Sounds Tarsila do Amaral — Estação de Ferro Central do Brasil Fernand Léger — Elément Mécanique Joan Miró – The Tilled Field Sándor Bortnyik – The New Adam David Jones — The Garden Enclosed Lovis Corinth — Big self-portrait on the Walchensee William Orpen — Self …
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache Sherlock Jr. Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) The Navigator The Iron Horse Helena / Helena de Troya The Thief of Bagdad Entr’acte The Grand Duke’s Finances (Die Finanzen des Großherzogs) The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann) Peter Pan Michael The Hands of Orlac The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West …
Here is a two-and-a-half-hour mix of a whopping FIVE recordings from 1924, more suitable for casual listening, maybe? 0:00:00 Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra with George Gershwin – Rhapsody In Blue, Part 1 0:04:20 Berlin State Opera Orchestra – Mahler; Symphony #2 (Resurrection) 1:27:57 Orchestra, A. Paganucci – director – 2nd record, Sept. 15, 1924 …
January 21 – Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin immediately begins to purge his rivals to clear the way for his leadership. January 22 — Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. January 25 — The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, in the …
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