Sound Beat

Nov 06 2024 274 ep. 1 mins 1.4k

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Sound Beat is a daily, 90 second show highlighting the holdings of the Belfer Audio Archive. The Belfer is part of the Syracuse University Library, and with over half a million recordings, is one of the largest sound archives in the United States. Each SB episode focuses on one particular recording from the Archive, and provides a back story detailing its place in recording history.

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How Tom Whitewashed the Fence

This excerpt from Tom Sawyer, coming in the book’s second chapter shows Tom at his cunning, conniving best.

Spellbound

Oct 16 2024 1 mins

On today’s episode we’re talking electronic music…and the importance of a thorough resume.

Snickelfritz!

Freddie Fisher and "America's most unsophisticated band".

Band of Gideon

The Fisk Jubilee Singers with Band of Gideon, a cylinder recording from 1927

If I Only Had a Heart

It was L. Frank Baum’s mother-in-law who encouraged him to write down the fanciful stories he told his kids. Seems he put a bit of himself into the tales, too.

A Paris!

Yves Montand with A Paris, an Odeon record from 1949.

Low Bridge!

Aug 17 2024 1 mins

Why did Governor Dewitt Clinton build a giant ditch across New York state? To get to the other side.

The Last Flight of the Lady Be Good

Aug 08 2024 1 mins

The American B-24 Bomber departed a Libyan Air Base on a bombing raid in April 1943.

The Contralto and the Physicist

You’re listening to Marian Anderson with “Heav'n, Heav'n”, a Masterpiece 78 from 1943, and You’re on the Sound Beat. When Marian Anderson performed at Princeton University in 1937, she was one of the most famous singers in the world. None other than Arturo Toscanini, once told her she had a voice “heard once in a hundred years”. She was probably well-received by the c

Moon Glow

Why does the moon shine, or, you know, glow?