Hi, there, DDR et al,

The New York Philharmonic was being broadcast regularly the previous year.  

Steve Smolian

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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Ford Sunday Evening Hour broadcasts

The 1923 broadcasts are authentic but unrecorded. The were conducted by
Gabrilowitsch. They may have been the first radio broadcast of a regular
symphony orchestra concert. The Minneapolis Symphony under Verbrugghen also
broadcast in that same year.

DDR


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:41 PM, John Haley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>



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