Posts Tagged ‘Cornell’
Time Machine – Recording Hot Jazz on Cylinder [AUDIO]
The Original Cornell Syncopators are a jazz band consisting of thirteen Cornell students plus one faculty member. They play in the earliest jazz styles with strict attention to the music’s history. In this feature, the group makes an acoustic recording using a Thomas A. Edison company cylinder device from the turn of the century. Feature…
Read MoreSam Quinones, journalist and author of ‘Dreamland,’ speaks with WRFI before Cornell talk on Nov. 7
Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. His latest book is Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic. On Nov 2. on “Your Morning,” he spoke with WRFI’s Laura Rosbrow-Telem about Dreamland, his reflections on the opioid crisis, and what he thinks the country still…
Read MoreFormer Vice President Joe Biden Speaks at Cornell Convocation Ceremony [Full Audio]
On Saturday, May 27th, the 47th Vice President Joe Biden spoke at Cornell University’s convocation ceremony, addressing the class of 2017. Biden spoke about racial inequality, working class fears of automation in their industry, and he urged graduating students to stop living in their screens. The following is Biden’s address in-full, recorded live by the…
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