Monday, March 18, 2024
Bolton, Wodehouse, and Kern: The Birth of the Modern Musical
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Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, and Jerome Kern changed the face of American musical theater; they basically invented the modern musical comedy...
Saturday, February 17, 2024
La Bohême - Acoustic
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For opera fans, here's a half hour of some legendary voices of the early 20th century, performing selections from one of the great oper...
Thursday, August 10, 2023
The Varsity Seven
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Here's another set of jazz records that can't really be considered rare, but which are somewhat obscure. The Varsity Seven was a st...
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Monday, March 13, 2023
Louis Armstrong in Paris 1934
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It could be argued that no recording by the great Louis Armstrong can really be considered obscure. Most of his records have remained almos...
Saturday, March 11, 2023
The Low Back'd Car is Back
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I have finally repaired the link to the recording of James McCool singing "The Low Back'd Car" from 1905. With this repair, a...
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Bach is Back
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It has taken me a while, but I have made new transfers of the Roth Quartet playing Bach's Art of the Fugue to replace the files lost i...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Bayreuth Festival 1929
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I have mixed feelings about creating this post. Richard Wagner was a groundbreaking composer; his operas are monumentally impressive creat...
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