[78-L] Columbia album sets

[David Lennick]

I wonder if anybody has this set? (Hey, I wonder if I have it? Dave Burnham, 
have you run across it in our mutual storage areas? If it was ever in a 
Carnegie Library, I might have picked it up when I went through the clearance 
sale at Hobart-William Smith College.)

dl

On 2/17/2011 12:50 PM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> 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.
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> 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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