Music
AFRS-V-Disc-8
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…
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 …
CBS Radio At Fifty
Read by 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…
Christmas Carol Collection
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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…
The Book of Musical Knowledge
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Arthur Elson
This book has been planned with a view to placing before the general reader the main facts that will enable him to appreciate music intellig…
Christmas Carol Collection
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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
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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…
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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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
Unknown
Hosted by George Jessel. Seven-year old Josephine Starr sings an aria. Jessel introduces "fifteen-year-old" Judy Garla…
The Big Show
In this festive episode of The Big Show, Bob Hope attempts to persuade Tallulah Bankhead to join him on stage. The talented Meredith Wilson …
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…
Out Of The Shadows
Read by Richard Hawley
Derek Brown
Out of The Shadows is a celebration of The Shadows, arguably one of the most influential British groups of all time. As George Harrison pith…
Anecdotes of Great Musicians
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Willey Francis Gates
Three hundred anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers.I have attempted to cull from the mass of material that…
Jazz
Read by Ben Tucker
R. P. Jones
Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European musical forms from which, at the end of the nineteenth century, "jazz” em…
Christmas Carol Collection
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Various
LibriVox volunteers bring you a festive selection of Christmas carols for the 2016 holiday. his year's festive collection of 25 Christmas c…
Why We Love Music
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Carl Emil Seashore
Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …
The Life of Mozart
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Otto Jahn
Volume 2 in the 3 Volume Set on the Life of Mozart, one of the greatest classical composers of all time. - Summary by Mozartjr
G I. Jive
Enjoy 10 episodes of the classic radio program G.I. Jive. This series captures the spirit and stories of soldiers during wartime, blending h…