[78-L] Columbia album sets

[simmonssomer]

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Capehart..whirrrr......slide.......whirrrrr.....plop........whizzzz....DUCK!

Al S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Columbia album sets


> Regarding AM..that's how it's listed in the Columbia Celebrity Catalog. It
> would have been slide automatic since drop auto didn't come along until 
> 1940
> (yes I know, Victor had it in 1928).
>
> As for Modern Music Album #4....SOMEBODY goofed! Although at least the 
> Ketelbey
> pieces were written in the 20th century.
>
> dl
>
> On 2/17/2011 12:56 AM, samhopper at mail.com wrote:
>> The Modern Music set No.4 was (believe it or not...!):
>>
>>
>>
>> COLUMBIA GEMS OF MELODY
>> (Unnamed soloists and performers)
>> 10 Sides., Modern Music Album Set No.4 (MM-4)
>> 50028-D; 50054-D; 50066-D; 50084-D; 50077-D
>> Details of recording:
>> Espana Waltz                        50028-D
>> Estudiantina Waltz (Waldteufel)             50028-D
>> Voices of Spring-Waltz              50054-D
>> Enjoy Your Life-Waltz (J. Strauss)      50054-D
>> Gioconda: Dance of the Hours (Ponchielli) (2 parts)     50066-D
>> Blue Danube Waltz (J. Strauss) (2 parts)    50084-D
>> In a Monastery Garden               50077-D
>> In a Persian Market (Ketelbey)          50077-D
>>
>>
>> Regarding Set 286.
>> Not a big seller - but from what I can figure out from research - it 
>> appears to have been available in standard "M" and "MM" sets only - not 
>> "AM". The 1940 catalog does not list the item in any form and the pianist 
>> isn't listed either. It appears to have been short lived and withdrawn 
>> early. It was not part of the short lived Modern Music Album series 
>> either.
>>
>>
>> The details for Set 286:
>>
>>
>>
>> CONCERTO IN G / upon Chinese Themes and Rhythms / (for piano and 
>> orchestra) (Aaron Avshalomov)
>> Gregory Singer (piano) / Aaron Avshalomov conducting Shanghai Municipal 
>> Symphony Orchestra
>> 8 Sides., Set M-286
>> 68867-D - 68870-D
>> [Possible numbers for MM] 68871-D - 68874-D
>> Recorded: 1936
>> Matrix numbers: A 3074 to A 3081
>> Matrix numbers (Details - Takes)
>> A 3074-1 - First movement: Allegro non troppo (first part)
>> A 3075-2 - First movement: Allegro non troppo (second part)
>> A 3076-1 - First movement: Allegro non troppo (third part)
>> A 3077-2 - First movement: Allegro non troppo (completion)
>> A 3078-1 - Second movement: adagio (first part)
>> A 3079-2 - Second movement: adagio (completion)
>> A 3080-1 - Third movement: Finale (first part)
>> A 3081-2 - Third movement: Finale (completion)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> A note on the composition:
>> The Piano Concerto in G was written during the summer of 1935 at 
>> Hangchow, a renowned beauty spot, of which the Chinese say, "Above there 
>> is heaven; below there is Habngchow and Soochow." Living in a peasant 
>> cottage and using a small harmonium, Avshalomov completed the composition 
>> in six weeks, doing the orchestration subsequently in Shanghai. Gregory 
>> Singer, to whom the scores is dedicated, gave the premiere in Shanghai 
>> with great success. On that occasion the slow movement was played twice, 
>> once as on this disc, and a second time in special orchestration for 
>> Chinese instruments. The Pathe recording was recorded - 1936 (?).
>>
>>
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>>
>> SAM
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: 78L<78-L at 78online.com>
>> Sent: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 2:29 pm
>> Subject: [78-L] Columbia album sets
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
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