Marcos Sueiro Bal appears in the following:
Moss-ly Mozart
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
The WQXR Archives celebrates Month of Mozart with highlights from Lloyd Moss's WQXR show This is My Music.
Twentieth Century Magic
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Visualizing the Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Styli over substance
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
The recently published National Recording Preservation Plan from the Library of Congress includes a recommendation to "encourage scientific and technical research leading to the development of new technologies to recover, reformat, and preserve audio recording media". Although at first sight this passage seems to refer to high-tech projects such as IRENE, there may be other, more modest ways to advance audio preservation technology. Here is an example.
Leona Baumgartner, Elvis, and the Fight Against Polio
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Blazing Maize: Mrs. Gannon's Tamale Pie, 1947
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Listen! The 1964 World's Fair in Sound
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
In Wartime '40s, America's First Taste of Rationing
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Bach to the '80s
Monday, March 25, 2013
In the 1980s, WQXR's This is My Music featured at least 20 famous folks (from politicians to fashion models) who included a Bach piece in their all time top 4 musical pieces.
Ed Koch in Jackson Heights, 1979
Friday, February 01, 2013
- In this episode of New York Considered, hear excerpts from New York City Mayor Ed Koch's community meeting in Jackson Heights. The Mayor speaks about issues concerning the city, with particular emphasis on Queens: immigration, housing, street safety, transportation.
- New York Considered was a public affairs series produced by Marty Goldensohn and Peter Freyberg.
Winston Churchill's address to Congress, 1941
Friday, January 11, 2013
Patricia Marx interviews Danny Kaye, 1968
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Before Bono: Danny Kaye, First UN Ambassador, on his 1954 East Asia trip
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
In 1954, entertainment superstar Danny Kaye became UNICEF's first Ambassador at Large, a post he held until his death in 1987. This is Mr Kaye's personal recounting of his first East Asian tour visiting many of the world's impoverished children.
How Sound is the President's Budget?
Friday, December 28, 2012
Original date: January 29, 1956 —
In this episode from Northwestern University Reviewing Stand, a panel of experts discusses Dwight Eisenhower's 1956 budget message. Were those different times? Former director of the Congressional Budget Office Rudolph Penner compares the budget struggles of yesteryear with today's.
Clean Water and Fiery Furnaces: The Health of New York, 1947
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Congressman Ed Koch on rent control reform, 1967
Thursday, December 27, 2012
October 2, 1967 —
Congressman Edward I. Koch speaks on a telephone interview about rent control, including an upcoming rally.
God and taxes: A newly discovered Eisenhower talk
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
In newly recovered audio from our collections, Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses a Books and Authors Luncheon audience. Historian David Pietrusza weighs in on the surviving audio from the Nov 23, 1948 speech.
So long, Stag
Monday, November 19, 2012
Longtime New York Public Radio engineer Jim Stagnito, a.k.a. Stag, bid the station farewell last week.
NPR Librarian Kee Malesky in New York
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Dr Kranich, your piano's ready. I'm afraid it's not built by your dad.
Friday, October 19, 2012
On March 5, 1853 a German piano maker named Henry Steinway (né Steinweg) founded Steinway & Sons at 85 Varick Street in New York City, barely five blocks from the present-day WNYC studios. Less than three months later another, much younger German piano maker named Helmuth Kranich would also arrive at these shores. Little did he suspect that one of his children would someday work at a competing form of entertainment: radio, specifically WNYC.
