[78-L] Depression-era orch records

[David Lennick]

The Boston Pops began recording in 1935, as did the Minneapolis Symphony 
Orchestra. Victor started recording orchestras again at this point, with the 
Boston Symphony joining a bit later. They got a real deal with the Minneapolis, 
whose contract didn't require them to be paid for recording.

Columbia actually recorded a symphony orchestra in 1933 or '34, aside from that 
one shot with the Boston..they recorded the St. Louis Symphony while on a road 
trip. They also inadvertently assigned the same matrix numbers to the classical 
recordings and some blues sides, so they got out of that hole by putting higher 
take numbers on the classical pieces.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Does the Boston Pops count as an American orch or do you just mean formal 
> symphony orchs?  I have the Pops on a 10" Red Seal doing  Carioca b/w The 
> Continental which I have assumed is from 1934...
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 1:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Cleveland Orchestra
> 
> 
>> There's at least an 11-year gap between the Brunswicks and Columbias. 
>> Don't
>> forget, during the Depression NO American orchestras were recording except 
>> the
>> Philly under Stokowski..Columbia even got the Boston Symphony one time, 
>> and
>> recorded it live and screwed it up (notes missed).
>>
>> dl
>>
>> DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>>> I, like most collectors I'm sure, have a number of Cleveland Orchestra 
>>> recordings on Brunswick conducted by Nicolai Sokoloff, as well as several 
>>> conducted by Rodzinski on Columbia.  Were these two separate recording 
>>> contracts or did this orchestra move from one label to the other when the 
>>> labels themselves merged?  As far as I've seen, Sokoloff never appeared 
>>> on Columbia nor Rodzinski on Brunswick.
>>>
>>> db
>>> _____________________