I bought a cassette recording of the speeches of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader.
They seemed impressed that I'd brought along my brother's cassette recording machine, sneaked from his bedroom.
Though that cassette recording of the "Transcendental Etudes" is no longer available, an even greater version, Mr. Sherman's 1990 account on Albany Records, is.
But it was Mr. Sherman's astonishing cassette recording of Liszt's "Transcendental Etudes" that brought him to international attention in 1974.
Others remained, though unable to perform more than the odd state-sponsored show or sneak the occasional cassette recording through the cultural clampdown.
Mr. Lambkin turned on a ghostly, barely audible cassette recording of Captain Beefheart's "Well" and moved the cassette player around the microphones.
According to their letter, she "fabricated the statement with the assistance of a male who provided her with a cassette recording" that she memorized.
These moving live takes are impressively cleaned up from a cassette recording made at Covent Garden's Canteen five years earlier, with Baker accompanied by a supple and sensitive local trio led by elegant John Dankworth pianist John Horler.
His grandmother had a cassette recording of Alec Guinness reading Eliot; and though Mr. Adès was mystified by the poetry, he was hooked by the way this great actor spoke the elusive lines.
A cassette records Matt reciting 73 of the 91 verses when he was under 10 and also, years later, Tom reciting the poem on his 13th birthday on 16 August 1992.
