Marcos Sueiro Bal appears in the following:
One Thousand Days: Salman Rushdie at Columbia, 1991
Thursday, September 27, 2012
On December 11, 1991, Salman Rushdie "quietly ventured outside Britain and emerged" [1] to speak at a Columbia University dinner celebrating the 200th anniversary of the First Amendment. The thunderous applause that greets Mr Rushdie's unexpected appearance sets the tone for his speech.
Audio dada: A precursor to John Cage's 4'33", 20 years earlier
Thursday, September 13, 2012
As New Sounds celebrates composer John Cage's 100th birthday, we at the WNYC archives add our own, irreverent archival item to the celebration: a WMCA News Parade program with an eerie premonition of John Cage's famous "silent" piece, 4'33".
Julia Child on WQXR's "Kitchen Classics", 1990s
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Bob Sherman interviews Natalia Makarova, 1977
Monday, April 23, 2012
This week the Leonard Lopate Show interviews Natalia Makarova. Listen to a WQXR interview Bob Sherman did with Makarova in 1977, when she was prima ballerina at American Ballet Theatre.
WebWise 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
What do Fugazi, Star Trek, and Illinois farmers have in common? The preservation of culture, with an eye toward the future.
AES 2011 Recap
Monday, December 05, 2011
1948: WQXR's Halloween Nightmare
Friday, October 28, 2011
1948: WQXR's Halloween Nightmare
Thursday, October 27, 2011
What was WQXR's worst nightmare in 1948? Was it to have their supposedly long hair* cut? No -- as it turns out, it was to be part of a big network.
Aaron Copland at BAM, 1941
Monday, September 19, 2011
1941-02-22 —
On the occasion of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's 150th anniversary, we look back at its younger days, 70 years ago.
Arthur Ashe at the New York Public Library, 1987
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Hurricanes! A Historic Look at Storms of Yore
Friday, August 26, 2011
Listen to Dr. Francis W. Reichelderfer, Chief of the United States Weather Bureau, discuss the state of the art in hurricane prevention and control in this 1961 edition of "New Horizons in Science".
Sid Zion on breaking Ellsberg, 1971
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Philip Levine reads "Mingus at the Half Note"
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
2011-08-10 —
Philip Levine is set to become the nation's Poet Laureate this Fall, but he already was WNYC's Poet in Residence back in 2003. Listen to Levine read William Matthews' "Mingus at the Half Note," and how the poem relates personally to him.
A Brand New Whitney in 1969
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
1969-04-24 —
By 1966 the Whitney Museum was already in its third building on Madison and 75th Street. Listen to its then director John Baur speak only three years after that move.
Claire Bloom Reads 'The Brontë Sisters'
Monday, May 23, 2011
April 10, 1957 —
Listen to a young Claire Bloom reading from a selection of letters by Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë in "The Brontë Sisters," a 1957 program submitted for consideration to the Peabody Awards.
Radio for Children: Ireene Wicker, The Singing Lady
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
What keeps audio archivists up at night?
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Senior Archivist Marcos Sueiro Bal recently attended the annual conference of IASA, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, in Philadelphia. He reports on some of the highlight presentations (besides being enveloped by the sounds of the world’s largest pipe organ).
