WQXR 50th Anniversary Show [Album # 17]

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Host Bob Sherman plays clips from WQXR in the 1940s. The Randolph Singers perform and we hear the voice of Irving Deacon, the station's first ballet show host. Deacon's April 25, 1940 show was first ever broadcast of the ballet Giselle.


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