The Good Auld Days

Evening Music | May 6, 2010

New Year's Eve is a time to remember "auld" acquaintances, and these old friends come from the WNYC Archive, visiting us this night to offer a sense of history through recordings of their performances on our station. Hear Mayor La Guardia's New Year's message from 1941, violinist Joseph Szigeti in 1948, 21 year-old composer Ned Rorem performing in 1946, a young Carol Channing singing with composer Marc Blitzstein in 1941, Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly from 1940, Bela Bartok in 1944, pianist William Kapell in 1953, and others.

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