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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