COUNTRY'S BIG BANG WITH 21st-CENTURY TECH

Tennessee Walt's "Bristol & Beyond: The Birth of Country Music," a lecture/concert program about the Bristol Sessions of 1927 (the famous "Big Bang of Country Music"), scored a hit on January 24 via a boost from 21st-century technology: The remote performance was streamed from Walt's living room in Queens to a large online audience through the Bethpage Public Library's website.