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I believe I have some on tape - Mackenzie lists it as a 1951 series, and cites 13 as the highest issue number in the series, if I read correctly There was also Orchestras of the Nation and Orchestras of the West. John, do you have a list of the selections/performers on your transcriptions? joe salerno John Ross wrote: > Does anybody have information about a series of 16-inch transcription > discs called "Orchestras of the World; Produced by the Economic > Cooperation Administration"? Probably from around 1950. > > They're fully produced radio programs of performances by European > orchestras (BBC Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, RIAS, Concertgebouw, > Suisse Romande, Radio Eireann Symphony, etc etc.) with introductions and > "intermission" interviews related to postwar economic development. > > Are these things taken from commercial recordings or from domestic live > concert or studio broadcasts? Are they documented anywhere? > > John Ross >