[78-L] Cleveland

[David Lennick]

It will be interesting to see how much was recorded during this time, but it 
seems to me that Beecham and Weingartner were pretty active on records during 
the early 30s, along with Eric Coates for light music. And this was the time 
when Walter Legge started the "Society" series, which produced a lot of vocal 
and chamber music and solo piano but also the Sibelius Symphonies and three 
volumes of Delius.

dl

Matthew Duncan wrote:
> It would be interesting to compare Britain during the depression in a similar way.
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> I am not certain, but I think that Columbia and HMV issued alot of new solo classical works during the depression but not much large orchestral works.
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> I am classing the depression in Britain as 1930 to 1938 with a little economic recovery before mid to late 1939 when the economy became unstable again when WWII broke out.
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> Matthew.
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> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>> 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).
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>> dl
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>> What are you calling the depression?  Certainly Toscanini and the NBC/NYPO recorded in the 30s, Boston also recorded on Victor then, as did Ormandy with Minneapolis and Philadelphia along with others.  I know that you know all this so I'm obviously missing something.
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>> db
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> Correct..I neglected to say that Victor began recording orchestras again in 
> early 1935 with the Minneapolis Symphony, the Boston Pops in July that year, 
> and the Boston Symphony Orchestra a bit later (this appeared in a later 
> message). But aside from the Philadelphia Orchestra, all contracts were allowed 
> to lapse after 1930 and even Stokowski had to record with a smaller orchestra.
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> dl
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