Series: Sound Beat
Produced by Jim O'Connor
A quick trip through the history of recorded sound! Sound Beat is a daily, 90 second module highlighting the collection of the Belfer Audio Archive at Syracuse University.
Each Sound Beat episode focuses on a particular recording from the Archive, and provides a back story detailing its place in recording history.
What kinds of recordings? Popular and classical music performances, film scores those from distinctly American musical forms like jazz, bebop, country, and bluegrass. Old favorites, rare gems, and some we guarantee you’ve never heard before… from Cab Calloway to the castrated stars of Italian opera, you’ll hear it all on Sound Beat!
8 Pieces
Order by:
Newest First |
Oldest First
You may not know it by name, but Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" is a Halloween mainstay.
- Added: Oct 26, 2011
- Length: 00:01:30
The origins of the traditional Christian Easter Hymn
- Added: Apr 07, 2011
- Length: 00:01:30
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 00:01:30
- Purchases: 1
Whether you filed your taxes months ago or just beat the buzzer, it's time to celebrate!
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 00:01:30
Play Ball! Baseball's unofficial anthem gets the All-Star treatment.
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 00:01:30
- Purchases: 4
A little warm-up for MLB Opening Day: Former Metropolitan Opera baritone Robert Merrill couldn't wait for his Brooklyn Dodgers to beat the NY Yanke...
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 00:01:30
- Purchases: 2
A brief history of St. Patrick and his use of the shamrock, set to an historic cylinder recording.
- Added: Mar 10, 2011
- Length: 00:01:30
When "The Great Hunger" ravaged Ireland in the 1840's, some emigrants to the U.S. received a frosty welcome.
- Added: Mar 10, 2011
- Length: 00:01:30
