On October 9, 1918, an HMV sound engineer named Will Gaisberg set up a primitive piece of recording equipment immediately behind a unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery stationed outside Lille and recorded a British gas-shell bombardment. His purpose in doing so was to preserve the sounds of war before the coming armistice caused them to vanish forever from the face of the earth.”
After watching the cememony on CTV, I have a couple of questions:
Why didn’t the Prime Minister speak? I believe he did last year.
On National Newswatch it was reported that Ben Harper was in a scout troup that passed the reviewing stand which included his father, PM Stephen Harper. I’m wondering why CTV didn’t mention that fact. I had been wondering where the Harper children were.
After watching the cememony on CTV, I have a couple of questions:
Why didn’t the Prime Minister speak? I believe he did last year.
On National Newswatch it was reported that Ben Harper was in a scout troup that passed the reviewing stand which included his father, PM Stephen Harper. I’m wondering why CTV didn’t mention that fact. I had been wondering where the Harper children were.
A very moving recording, especially after reading about the man who recorded it.
By the way, until they’re elected to something, it’s no one’s business where the Harper kids are.
Hey,
CBC used to have show where every remembrance day the presenter would have an audio clip from WWII, of Nightgales singing in a forest in Southern England inthe morning dark. And as you listen to the 5-10min track you go from silence and birds and night sounds to a rumble that builds and builds and builds as 100’s of bombers come back from the night time raids over Germany. You even hear some of the engines coughing and running rough.
What show was that? It was a Classic music program ( Not Otto Loewy’s sp? show, but nearby in time.), and does anybody know if the clip is available anywhere?
Max Ferguson used to play the clip regularly (along with his other 12 favourite pieces, some of which were quite good). I’m sure that it can be found in one of the CBC libraries.
Max Ferguson used to play the clip regularly (along with his other 12 favourite pieces, some of which were quite good). I’m sure that it can be found in one of the CBC libraries.
Max would play a fairly limited number of recordings and usually say the same things about each of them. The first time one listened, it could be mildly amusing; in time, he became like everybody’s Uncle Max, repeating himself, taking great pleasure in his own wit, fussing over pronunciation and a variety of trivial distinctions. Still, you could hear things there that you couldn’t hear elsewhere.
I reluctantly tuned CBC Newsworld to observe the National Cenotaph ceremonies but I’ll be the first to admit I was pleasantly surprised with the coverage.
A few minutes before 11 AM EST, Don Newman said “The Governor General’s party is arriving” and for the next 45 minutes there was not a sound from Newman or Mansbridge or any of the CBC talking heads who are not happy unless they are yapping. Finally, at long last, CBC producers did something right and let the audience do their own thinking. Good for them.
In my wildest dreams I don’t expect CBC to get into the habit of doing the right thing. I realize it was likely an anomoly ……. but a pleasant one nonetheless.
Not to be too picky on this day of Remembrance,but isn’t the “2 minutes of silence” supposed to be on the 11th MINUTE,of the 11th hour,of the 11th day,of the 11th month.Or have the socialist revisionists changed that too?
Justthinkin , I’ve been around Rememberance Day ceremonies since my cadet days back in ’62 (or so), the minute of silence was always on the hour.