[78-L] An Orchestra Rehearsal

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

Thanks, I'll try to find those on Ebay. Picked up the Bruno Walter album many years ago in a resale shop that had some LP's.



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>From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>Off the top of my head and the top of the shelf, here are a few:
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>BEECHAM IN REHEARSAL..WORLD SH 147, previously HMV, previously a giveaway 
>produced by Capitol for High Fidelity
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>MONTEUX: BEETHOVEN 9TH SYMPHONY + 1 SIDE OF REHEARSALS..WESTMINSTER WST 234
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>ANSERMET: THE FIREBIRD + REHEARSALS..LONDON FBD-S-1
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>I thought I had Rodzinski rehearsing but it's just a memorial album with 
>excerpts from issued recordings and his farewell to the orchestra.
>
>HOWARD HANSON did a few Mercury albums where he'd break down one composition 
>(one of his) and then play it complete. I haven't listened to those.
>
>BOULT rehearsed The Young Person's Guide and that was issued along with the 
>complete performance (Westminster again).
>
>dl
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>On 3/7/2012 10:20 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>> Yes thats the one!! Are the other 2 or 3 conductors doing rehearsals that you meantioned available on commercial LP's? If so then what are they plus label&  record number if you can find it. I'd love to hear them one day.....
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>>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>>> It's Mozart..DSL 224, The Birth of a Performance, Mozart Linz Symphony +
>>> rehearsals (fortunately my Dead Conductors are filed alphabetically). There's
>>> lots of interesting Toscanini rehearsal stuff but I remember that 78 as being
>>> unlistenable and badly miked.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 3/7/2012 9:08 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>>>> It might be Mozart but I don't remember&  the LP set (grey six eye) is somewhere in my massive record accumulation. I'd love to hear the other rehearsals you meantion as well as any Toscaninni ones too.
>>>>
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>>>>> I thought it was Mozart, but I haven't looked at any of those rehearsal records
>>>>> in a long time. Some of them are interesting..I have Monteux and Rodzinski
>>>>> rehearsals, among others. And the classic is a whole LP of Beecham singing
>>>>> along with Mozart and I think Haydn.
>>>>>
>>>>> dl
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/7/2012 8:08 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>>>>>> There's a 2 LP set on Columbia with Bruno Walter rehearsing the orchestra for the same symphony (either Beethoven or Brahms) thats played on the first LP. It's somewhere in my vinyl collection as a set of 12" LP's with it's original jacket. I don't remember which symphony it is but the rehearsal is interesting to listen to.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd love to hear the Fiedler&  Toscaninni discs some day!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Pretty pointless, as I recall. Another gem was Toscanini screaming at his
>>>>>>> musicians, on a blue label disc put out by Jack L. Caidin.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> dl
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 3/7/2012 6:28 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>>>>>>>> I just ran across a curious record called "An Orchestra Rehearsal" by Theodore Cella, performed by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston P.O.  I don't know if it's supposed to be funny or instructive.  It's hard to hear the conductor's comments because he isn't miked and the orchestra is very loud.  I don't know if the entire production was written by Cella or just the music they're rehearsing.  The only hint that it's supposed to be comical is that it sounds like the harpist breaks a string when he's asked to play a solo, (Theodore Cella is or was a harpist, I can't find any dates for him but there is a photograph of him on line playing the harp in the New York Phil. from 1938 so if he is still alive he must be at least 100 years old).  It's on both sides of a 10 inch 78 and the first half of the second side is just the sound of orchestra noodling, then they play the piece they had been rehearsing, (a very short piece, probably less than a minute
>>>>    long).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> db
>>>>>>>
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