Isaiah Berlin Interview

The Voice of Guillaume Apollinaire

Listen to a recording of Guillaume Apollinaire here.

Roy Lichtenstein and Benny Goodman

According to this article, by Martin Filler, at the age of fourteen Roy Lichtenstein attended Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert in January, 1938.

A book about Goodman's concert will be published later this year...

Benoit Mandelbrot

Tyondai Braxton's Dead Strings

Georges Méliès: Le Mélomane

This is brilliant...

50,000-Watt Radio Broadcasting? Bah!

"Some ... may recall Top 40 deejays in America boasting of their stations' powerful fifty-thousand-watt signals.  Consider, then, that Radio Luxembourg was seven times more powerful than that, and the [Voice of America], in Munich, twenty times more powerful, aiming to reach Soviet territory."

—From Barry Kernfeld's recent book, Pop Song Piracy

...and here it says 1.3 million Watts:

A short feature on Willis Conover's VOA jazz broadcasts:

N.H.O.P.

Peter Ablinger's "Cecil Taylor"

...from Voices and Piano (1998)

B.B King and Ray Charles