In August of last year,there was an upload to the rec.music.classical.recordings group of a Pilotone 78 set of the Grieg Holberg Suite,by Rudolph Ganz and "The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra",from the late 1940s.This recording was entirely unknown to me.In all of my years of pawing through shellac,I had seen a Pilotone record or two,but never any classical.Recently on eBay,I found a copy of Grand Award GA 33-307.This is the same recording of the Grieg,but this time credited to the "American Artists Symphony", complete with the Deems Taylor commentary found on the Pilotone 78 set.Also on this Lp is the overtures to "Raymond","If I Were King",and "Abu Hassan",by "M.Schonherr" ,and the "Radio Vienna Grand Symphony".I assume nobody knows who this really is,but was this a Pilotone recording as well ?I know Pilotone was a label of the Pilot Radio Company,but did they have any connection to the label that would later become Grand Award ? Did Pilotone have any
connection with C.Robert Fine early on?Does anybody have a listing of other classical titles issued on Pilotone ?
Roger
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