I wonder if he played on any of the Columbias by the Johann Strauss (III) Orchestra?
 
Roger




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  Ormandy made acoustical records as a solo violinist. Some appeared on the Lincoln and (possibly) Cameo and Okeh labels. Somewhere I have the web address for a discography of Ormandy as a violinist, but I can't locate it now. Perhaps someone else here will post it. There were 1920s electrical records as a violinist too, plus electrical ones with "Dr. Eugene Ormandy's Salon Orchestra" featuring such titles as the "Let's Go To Bed Waltz."

  Incidentally, Arthur Fiedler also recorded from acoustical to digital, again beginning as an instrumentalist. He was a violinist in the Boston Symphony when they made their Victor records with Karl Muck in Camden in the summer of 1917. I found out because in 1961 I asked Fiedler if he was one of the musicians who played in them. In his usual brusque way he replied "yes, I did. It was HOT. Muck was b--chy!"

  Don Tait







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On the back cover of RCA's first for-release digital recording, Bartok's
"Concerto For Orchestra" by
Ormandy/Philly, producer Jay David Saks wrote that Ormandy's recording career
"has spanned over half
a century -- from 78rpms, both acoustical and electrical, through mono and
stereo LPs to
quadrophonic ..." Is it true that Ormandy recorded acoustic 78's? Can anyone
provide details on his
earliest recordings?

Saks further describes Ormandy as "the man who has made more records than any
other person in
history." Is that true? More than Karajan? More than Dorati?

-- Tom Fine