Thanks, Leo.  Great info.
Best, John


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Leo Gillis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The online archives of the DSO for the Ford Sunday Evening Hour goes from
> 2/16/1934 to 3/8/1947. A couple are listed for 1923, but I'm not sure if
> those are correct.
>
> http://www.dso.org/performanceTitle.aspx?page_id=648
>
> The list of conductors includes:  Victor Kolar, Fritz Reiner, Mischa
> Levitsky, Alexander Smallens, Charles Hackett, Richard Bonelli, Sir Ernest
> MacMillan, Emma Otero, Franco Ghione, Elwyn Carter, Andre Kostelanetz, Sir
> John Barbirolli, Sir Thomas Beecham, Wilfrid Pelletier, Jose Iturbi, George
> Szell, Sir Eugene Ormandy, Reginald Stewart, Artur, Rodzinaksi, Eugene
> Goossens, Victor Kolar, Harold Koch, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Karl Krueger,
> William Steinberg, Leonard Bernstein, Efrem Kurtz, and C. Valter Poole.
>
> The first few years were all Kolar, (DSO principal conductor) then Reiner
> and Ormandy began appearing. Kolar, Reiner, Ormandy, Iturbi, Pelletier and
> Beecham did numerous performances, and many of these in later years were
> held at the Music Hall, another fine, small venue in downtown Detroit,
> still in operation. Several of the listings unfortunately do not include
> the performance venue.
>
> -- Leo Gillis
>
>
>  On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Don Tait ([log in to unmask])
>  <
>  [log in to unmask]>
>  wrote:
>
>  > I have tapes or private CD-Rs of some of those
>  broadcasts. From  circa
>  > 1941/2. Each 30 minutes. All I have are conducted by
>  Fritz Reiner, who
>  > presumably took the train up from Pittsburgh for the
>  gig. I got the
>  > recordings
>  > from  fellow Reiner collectors and have no idea
>  who might  have conducted
>  > other
>  > programs. As one might expect, the selections are short
>  and  the musical
>  > gruel is pretty thin. The "theme music" for each
>  program is the  French
>  > horn
>  > "bedtime" music from Hansel und Gretel.
>  >
>  >   I do not remember whether the
>  announcer(s) said  from where the
>  > broadcasts originated. Sorry.
>  >
>  >   Don Tait
>  >
>  >
>  > In a message dated 3/18/2014 3:38:10 P.M. Central
>  Daylight Time,
>  > [log in to unmask]
>  writes:
>  >
>  > Starting  in 1934 and continuing for a number of
>  years thereafter, the
>  > Detroit  Symphony appeared on a radio program, the
>  Ford Symphony Hour.
>  >  Some
>  > of  the most distinguished conductors of that time
>  regularly guested on
>  > this
>  > show, which also featured big name soloists.
>  Preserved  broadcasts show
>  > that the orchestra was an excellent one during this
>  period,  and the
>  > acoustics audible on these recordings sound OK, with a
>  touch of  nice hall
>  > ambiance.  A number of these broadcasts are sought
>  after by  collectors.  I
>  > don't know where these shows were recorded, but I
>  assume they predate the
>  > Ford Auditorium referred to  previously.
>  >
>  > Best,
>  > John Haley
>
>