Metropolis Wings The Jazz Singer Napoléon The Cat and the Canary Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Children of Divorce It College The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog Chicago Underworld When a Man Loves Why Girls Love Sailors Man from the Restaurant (Chelovek iz restorana) Mata Hari The Red Mill Il Gaucho The …
MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS “Another journey into the history of recorded sound with James and Sean. This time we delve into the vaults for 1890 and 1891, explore the pop music of the gilded age, and hear the voices of P.T. Barnum, Florence Nightingale, Pyotr …
January 1 – The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation. John Reith becomes the first Director-General January 1 – The Cristero War erupts in Mexico when Catholic rebels attack the government, which had placed heavy restrictions on the church. January 9 – A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, …
Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 15th August 2020 Place: Cambridge 105 Radio More treasures excavated from musical history with sound curator James Errington. This time it’s 1918, the war is nearly over, but the war records are just getting into their stride, and the shockwave of this new music we’re now calling jazz is still shaking …
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At Centuries of Sound I am making mixes for every year of recorded sound. The download here is a cut-down 30 minute mix, for the full two-hour version please come to centuriesofsound.com to stream, or patreon.com/centuriesofsound for downloads and a host of other bonus materials for just $5 per month. MP3 sample download | Patreon …
René Magritte – The Musings of a Solitary Walker Joan Miró – Dog Barking at the Moon Alexander Calder — Cirque Calder Edwin Dickinson — The Cello Player John Bulloch Souter — The Breakdown Norman Rockwell – The Love Song Salvador Dalà — The Basket of Bread Georges Malkine — Nuit d’Amour Hannah Höch — …
Faust The General Nana Rien que les heures (Nothing but Time) Ménilmontant The Winning of Barbara Worth The Holy Mountain (Der heilige Berg) The Magician Secrets of a Soul A Page of Madness (Kurutta IppÄ“ji) The Strong Man The Overcoat Nelson The Adventures of Prince Achmed Battling Butler The Devil’s Wheel, (Chyortovo koleso) Flesh and …
An 80-minute mix of a massive four orchestral recordings from 1926, available exclusively to patrons, sign up here for access. Tracks 0:00:00 Gustav Holst with London Symphony Orchestra – The Planets 0:42:40 Fritz Kreisler & Berlin State Opera Orchestra – Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto e-moll Op.64 1:08:28 Cortot, Thibaud and Cassals – Schubert Trio No. …
MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS “This time James and Sean take a trip back to the 80s — the 1880s that is. Aside from the original music we have celebrity appearances from Arthur Sullivan, Johannes Brahms, William Ewart Gladstone and Queen Victoria herself (possibly) — plus …
Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 18th July 2020 Place: Cambridge 105 Radio Audio curator James Errington is joined by jazz historian Joe Moore to discuss the astonishing year of 1917, when a new music called “Jass” or “Jaz” or “Jazz” swept the world, changing it forever. A genuinely astonishing time for music, brought to life with …
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