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.
A. Lesitsky
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On Sep 25, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Dennis Rooney <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> DDR
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> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Jon Samuels <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> 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 recording
>> capability again until December, 1956? If not, then who did?
>> By any chance, do you know, Dennis (Rooney)?
>> Jon Samuels
>>
>> --- On Tue, 9/25/12, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Jon, thanks for all this information. Fascinating and educational.
>>
>> -- Tom Fine
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Samuels" <[log in to unmask]
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 12:39 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] early stereophony
>>
>>
>> Ironically, the only surviving RCA document that mentions the existence of
>> binaural recording is the October 1953 Stokowski session I mentioned in an
>> earlier post, which is labelled "binaural experiment". Naturally, none of
>> those tapes have been located to date.
>>
>> Jon Samuels
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