The current issue of the AES Journal (July/August) has a fine article on
Stowkowski and the Evolution of Recording Techniques by Francis Rumsey.
Included are many remarks about stereo, of course. Don't know if it can be
found in the clear online.

clark
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:04 PM, lesit <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Could the contents of the Ormandy reel be selection from a Midsummer
> Night's dream. Issued on Lp in mono only, it was also issued on a 2 track
> stereo tape which I used to own.
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> A. Lesitsky
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> On Sep 25, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Dennis Rooney <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > I found no reference to the MAR items in my archival research on Szell's
> > Columbia/Epic recordings. It's entirely possible that RCA recorded them.
> > There was great resistance to stereo from Fred Plaut and others. and I
> > never found any evidence of experimental binaural setups that preceded
> > the*Messiah
> > * of Dec. 1956. However, when inspecting the tapes at IMAR, I came across
> > an Ormandy/PO recording (I no longer remember the repertoire) recorded
> > c1955 in 3-track, 1/4-inch format. The contents were never released.
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> > DDR
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> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Jon Samuels <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
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> >> Tom,
> >> You're most welcome.
> >> Here's an oddity that might interest you.  George Szell and the
> Cleveland
> >> Orchestra (under the name Music Appreciation Orchestra and His Symphony
> >> Orchestra) made a number of recordings for Music Appreciation Records
> >> between 1954 and 1955. As I understand it, they were actually recorded
> by
> >> Columbia Records, due to a joint arrangement between
> Book-of-the-Month-Club
> >> and Columbia House Record Club.  Szell's first stereo recordings for MAR
> >> were made October 19, 20 and 21, 1955.  He recorded Brahms Academic
> >> Festival Overture and Haydn Variations, Mozart Symphony No. 39, Schumann
> >> Symphony No. 4 and Stravinsky Firebird Suite.  (I'm not certain the
> Brahms
> >> and Mozart were released in stereo on LP, but the Schumann and
> Stravinsky
> >> were.)  Yet he didn't record in stereo for Epic/Columbia until February
> 22
> >> and 23, 1957 for Columbia, making only mono recordings for them in 1955
> and
> >> 1956.  (Columbia's first acknowledged stereo recording was Leonard
> Bernstein
> >> conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra in Handel's
> >> Messiah on December  31, 1956.)
> >> This raises some interesting questions.  Did Columbia indeed record the
> >> MAR Szell recordings?  If so, why did they not use their stereo
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> >> capability again until December, 1956?  If not, then who did?
> >> By any chance, do you know, Dennis (Rooney)?
> >> Jon Samuels
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> >> --- On Tue, 9/25/12, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >> From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] early stereophony
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 6:37 AM
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> >> Jon, thanks for all this information. Fascinating and educational.
> >>
> >> -- Tom Fine
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> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Samuels" <
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> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 12:39 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] early stereophony
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> >> Ironically, the only surviving RCA document that mentions the existence
> of
> >> binaural recording is the October 1953 Stokowski session I mentioned in
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> >> earlier post, which is labelled "binaural experiment". Naturally, none
> of
> >> those tapes have been located to date.
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> >> Jon Samuels
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> > --
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