Music From 100 Years Ago

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Mozart's Birthday 2011 Jan 27, 2011

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A special, short podcast for Mozart's 255th birthday. Music includes: the finale from the Linz Symphony, the slow movement from the Hunt Quartet and the finale from the Sonata for Two Pianos in D.

Performers include: Thomas Beecham, The Lener Quartet and Josef and Rosina Lhevinne.

Rhapsody In Blue Jan 22, 2011

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A special, short podcast featuring a 1945 recording of Rhapsody in Blue in its rarely-heard choral version. The recording is conducted by Paul Whiteman features has Earl Wild on piano.

Blue Music Jan 22, 2011

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Songs with blue in the title, including Blue Moon, Little Girl Blue, Blue Yodel #3, Blue Tango and Once In a Blue Moon. Performers include: Margaret Whiting, Bing Crosby, Bill Monroe, Jimmie Rodgers and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

National Recording Registry Part 2 Jan 16, 2011

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More highlights from the National Recording Registry, including: Black Bottom Stomp, Bei Mir Bist Du Schon, New San Antonio Rose, Perpetual Motion and Sweet Lorraine. Performers include: Marian Anderson, Jelly Roll Morton, Bob Wills, Zora Neale Hurston, Nat M. wills and Duke Ellington.

Centennials 2011 Jan 09, 2011

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Celebrating the 100th birthdays of: Roy Eldridge, Robert Johnson, Mahalia Jackson, Stan Kenton, Maxine Sullivan, Spike Jones, Roy Rogers and others. Songs include: Muskrat Ramble, Loch Lomond, Tangerine, Laura and Amazing Grace.

1911 Jan 01, 2011

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The hits from 1911, including: Alexander's Ragtime Band, Some of These Days, I Want a Girl, Let Me Call You Sweetheart and Romin In the Glomin.

Performers include: Harry Lauder, Billy Murray, Sophie Tucker and the Sousa Band.

Leftovers #10 Dec 26, 2010

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Records left off of previous podcasts. Songs include: Lazy River, On Revival Day, Pound Your Table Polka and Religion is a Fortune.

Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Bessie Smith, Mary Martin, Henry Thomas, Benny Goodman and Ella Fitzgerald.

Miscellaneous Million Sellers Dec 18, 2010

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Million-selling records from the first half of the 20th Century. Records include: It's Magic, Don't Fence Me In, American Patrol, Cohen on the Telephone, The Blue Danube and Humpty Dumpty Heart.

Artists include: Enrico Caruso, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Leopold Stokowski, Ernest Stoneman and Cab Calloway.

Beethoven's Birthday 2010 Dec 16, 2010

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Celebrating the 240th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. Works include: the finale of the Symphony #8, the slow movement of the Piano Sonata #8 and the final movement of the String Quartet # 12.

Performers include: Felix Weingartner , Arthur Rubinstein and the Busch String Quartet.

National Recording Registry 1 Dec 11, 2010

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Highlights from the National Recording Registry. Records include: West End Blues, T For Texas, The Poem of Fire and the Stars and Stripes Forever. Performers include: Bessie Smith, Jimmie rogers, Leopold Stokowski, Benny Goodman and Thomas Edison.

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