Mitch Miller, 93, the renowned classical oboist, record company exec and orchestral conductor...returns to Eastman
Topic: 1960's
Music legend Mitch Miller, 93, the renowned classical oboist, record company exec and orchestral conductor...returns to Eastman
On Thursday, September 9th at 3 p.m., the Rochester, New York
native and recipient of a 2000 Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
will return to The Eastman School of Music, for a special ceremony in his honor...link.
ASTRUD GILBERTO, Everyone's favorite Bossa Nova vocalist now in Philadelphia
Topic: 1960's
GILBERTO Family news...Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Gilberto's still-active father,
singer/composer and guitarist Joao Gilberto,
is considered among the godfathers of Brazilian bossa-nova
music.
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The QXR Network
Topic: 1960's
You may be amused to know this was an FM off the air relay network, although some stations in New York state may have been linked via land line. I believe the southern link went off air from NYC to Allentown, Philadelphia, Bridgeton, Baltimore and then to DC every now and then a breakaway NETCUE was delivered by a WQXR announcer at an unscheduled time and dozing boardmen in those towns got a slew of other stations callsigns before cutting them off for their own. Once I was filling in at WITH-FM in Baltimore, Md. They had restaurant music service on the subcarrier and had to remain on the air until 2am. Rather than paying an announcer to stay until 2am we recorded the 8pm Concert Hall from WQXR and played it back at Midnight. (The janitor had a FCC permit to take transmitter readings). One night I had just delivered a live commercial and clicked back on the net and realized I did not start recording. I mumbled a damn and started the tape.
Walt Kraemer called me at WITH from WASH laughing. He said listeners heard the BONG open to the show, then my "Damn" then WQXR host saying "Welcome to the WQXR Concert hall".
ouch.
-RAC
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