[78-L] Columbia album sets

[Jeff Sultanof]

Avshalomov's son was Jacob Avshalomov, who directed an excellent youth
symphonic ensemble in Phoenix for many years. They made an album for CRI in
the late fifites.

Jeff Sultanof

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> 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)
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> 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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> -----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
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> dl
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