[78-L] Columbia album sets

[David Lennick]

Did someone want to know all of the MODERN MUSIC set numbers and their new 
numbers? I've just come across them in a small undated catalog, pre-CBS (but 
not by much).

Interesting that none of these was pressed in auto sequence, while just about 
every album surrounding them WAS, including what must have been a huge seller, 
Avshalomoff's Piano Concerto (whaaa?!) with someone named Singer at the piano 
and the composer conducting the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra. Never even heard 
of that one, let alone seen it (Set 286/AM286).

Okay, here are the renumbered "Modern" sets.

278	Haubiel: KARMA (formerly Modern Music 1)
279	Atterberg: SYMPHONY #6 (formerly Modern Music 2)
280	Gershwin: CONCERTO IN F..Bargy/Whiteman (formerly Modern Music 3)
281	Roy Harris: CONCERTO Op. 2 (formerly Modern Music 6)
282	Roy Harris: TRIO (Modern Music 7)
283	Salzedo: CONCERTO FOR HARP & 7 WIND INSTRUMENTS (formerly M.M. 8)
284	Glazounov: THE SEASONS (formerly Modern Music 5)

Wonder what Modern Music 4 was? And I wonder what on earth anyone was thinking 
in putting the Glazounov in that series? Roy Harris's Symphony 1933 had a 
better claim to be in there but it wasn't (it was Set 191).

The 1934 catalog lists Modern Music sets 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6 so Set 4 was a mystery 
even then (or an unused number). And the Gramophone Shop's 1931 catalog lists 
Modern Music sets 1, 2 and 3, so that's how early that series was in use.

dl