http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18881714
The February 12, 2008, Morning Edition on NPR featured a segment on the treasure trove of newsreels, clips from old movies, videos of virtuosos, famous conductors, and much more. Here are some favorite classics linked on the Web site:
- Artuo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony from 1948
- Duet between James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti singing “It’s a Man’s World”
- Maria Callas singing Saint-Saens’ “Samson et Dalila”
- Jascha Heifetz playing Wieniawski’s “Polonaise No. 1”
- Edith Piaf singing “La Vie en Rose”
- Dudley Moore performing “Die Flabbergast”
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