Music
Hour of Charm
Various
A WW2-era show featuring an all girl orchestra and chorus, playing a variety of songs.
October (Coates version)
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Florence Earle Coates
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of October by Florence Earle Coates. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 9, 2011.Mrs.…
The Pianoforte Sonata
Read by Jordan Watts
John South Shedlock
John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at t…
The Symphony Since Beethoven
Read by realisticspeakers
Felix Weingartner and Felix Weingartner
This 1904 book by composer, conductor and pianist Felix Weingartner examines the development of the symphony as a musical form since one of …
CBS Radio At Fifty 77 09 18 An Autobiography In Sound With Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite hosts this 3 hour retrospective on the history of CBS Radio from its beginnings up through to the date of this broadcast. Th…
Mozart's Youth
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Franz Hoffmann and Franz Hoffmann
This short account of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is part of the “Life Stories for Young People” series. It is written in an engaging …
AFRS-V-Disc-8
dont1961
The Army was the original source of the V-Disc records, with their first being issued in October of 1943.The Army's V-Disc project provided …
Christmas Carol Collection 2014
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Various
This year's LibriVox selection of traditional favourites and lesser-known Christmas carols in English, French, German and Latin, including a…
Movie Tunes
Ranjith Daluwatta
A Collection of everlasting movie openers and themes Since the very first silent films, music has been essential to the storytelling p…
Piano Tuning: A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs
Read by James R. Hedrick
Jerry Cree Fischer
This is a primer for anyone wishing to learn how to tune and maintain their own piano or to become a piano tuner. Written in 1907, it was ta…
Christmas Carol Collection 2017
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Various
LibriVox volunteers bring you a festive selection of 22 Christmas carols for the 2017 holiday. This year's collection includes traditional f…
Christmas Carol Collection 2015
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Various
This year's selection includes traditional favourites and lesser-known Christmas carols in English and French. (Summary by Ruth Golding)Berg…
Scottish Music
Ranjith Daluwatta
During the 1960s and Seventies, for countless Radio listeners and TV viewers, Calum Kennedy was the Gaelic singer, known as “the golden voic…
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol. I
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Grace Jane Wallace
This volume, the first volume of a two-volume set, contains 140 letters written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from 1769-1781. It has been trans…
Music
Read by Martha H. Weller
Ursula Creighton
"So many books are written for beginners on the appreciation of music that I can be thankful that advancing age makes it unnecessary fo…
Thirty Minutes In Hollywood 37 10 24 Guest Judy Garland
Unknown
Hosted by George Jessel. Seven-year old Josephine Starr sings an aria. Jessel introduces "fifteen-year-old" Judy Garla…
The Big Show 50 12 17 The Big Show 50 12 17 Bob Hope Phil Harris Martin & Lewis
Bob Hope tries to gets Tallulah to appear on his show. Meredith Wilson plays "The Thing." Louis Armstrong performs "Ain't Mis…
The Seven Lively Arts
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Gilbert Seldes
“... But, beside those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a…
Handel
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Romain Rolland
As Romain Rolland indicates in the preface, this book is a brief sketch of the life and technique of Handel. He provides biographical backgr…