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NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937 - 1954)

Orchestra - United States

Relationships (12)

Renamed Into

  1. Symphony of the Air (1954 - 1963)

Conductor

  1. Leopold Stokowski (1941 - 1944) principal
  2. Arturo Toscanini principal

Members

  1. Lucien Laporte (1937) cello
  2. Carlton Cooley (1937 - 1954) viola
  3. Felix Galimir (1939 - 1954) violin
  4. Andor Toth (1943) violin
  5. Charles Jaffe (1945) violin
  6. Frederick Vogelgesang
  7. Elias Lifschey viola
  8. William Primrose viola
  9. Milton Prinz cello

Recordings by (17)

  1. Jota aragonesa (Part One) ?:?? (Mar 1946) mx. VP 1685
  2. Jota aragonesa (Part Two) ?:?? (Mar 1946) mx. VP 1697
  3. Hungarian Dance no. 1 ?:?? (Mar 1946) mx. VP 1697
  4. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part One): Dance of Aischi ?:?? (Dec 1946) mx. JDB 195
  5. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part Three): Adagio Gayne (Conclusion) ?:?? (Dec 1946) mx. JDB 197
  6. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part Three): Variation Armena ?:?? (Dec 1946) mx. JDB 197
  7. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part Three): Lezginka (Caucasian Folk Dances) ?:?? (Dec 1946) mx. JDB 197
  8. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part Two): Folk Dances From Kurtsk ?:?? (Dec 1946) mx. JDB 196
  9. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part Two): Dances of the Young People of Kurdov ?:?? (Dec 1946) mx. JDB 196
  10. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part Two): Adagio Gayne (Beginning) ?:?? (Dec 1946) mx. JDB 196
  11. Sunday in Brooklyn (Part One) ?:?? (Feb 1947) mx. JDB 212
  12. Sunday in Brooklyn (Part Three) ?:?? (Feb 1947) mx. JDB 214
  13. Sunday in Brooklyn (Part Two) ?:?? (Feb 1947) mx. JDB 213
  14. Manfred Ouverture Op. 115 11:58 (1990)
  15. Of Thee I Sing Overture ?:?? (1995)
  16. Rhapsody in Blue 3:20 (2001)
  17. Symphony From ‘The New World’ Largo ?:?? (2006)

On Recordings (50)

Orchestra

  1. The Moldau (Part 1) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Feb 1944)
  2. The Moldau (Part 2) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Feb 1944)
  3. The Blue Danube ‐ Part 1 ?:?? Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra (Mar 1944)
  4. The Blue Danube ‐ Part 2 ?:?? Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra (Mar 1944)
  5. Swan of Tuonela (Part One) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Dec 1944)
  6. Swan of Tuonela (Part Two) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Dec 1944)
  7. Leonore Overture in C major (Part 1) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Mar 1945)
  8. Leonore Overture in C major (Part 2) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Mar 1945)
  9. La gazza ladra: Overture (Part II) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Jul 1945)
  10. La gazza ladra: Overture (Part I) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Jul 1945)
  11. Classical Symphony in D major, Part 1 ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Aug 1945)
  12. Classical Symphony in D major, Part 2 ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Aug 1945)
  13. Nutcracker Suite (Part One): Overture Minature ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Sep 1945)
  14. Nutcracker Suite (Part One): March ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Sep 1945)
  15. Nutcracker Suite (Part Two): Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Sep 1945)
  16. Nutcracker Suite (Part Two): Trepak ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Sep 1945)
  17. Nutcracker Suite (Part Two): Arab Dance ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Sep 1945)
  18. Nutcracker Suite (Part Four): Waltz of the Flowers ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Sep 1945)
  19. Nutcracker Suite (Part Three): Chinese Dance ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Sep 1945)
  20. Nutcracker Suite (Part Three): Dance of the Reed Flutes ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Sep 1945)
  21. Grand Canyon Suite: Cloudburst (Conclusion) ?:?? NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini (Jan 1946)
  22. Grand Canyon Suite: Cloudburst (Beginning) ?:?? NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini (Jan 1946)
  23. Grand Canyon Suite: On the Trail ?:?? NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini (Jan 1946)
  24. First Movement of Symphony no. 2 in E minor (Part Three) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Frank Black (Feb 1946)
  25. First Movement of Symphony no. 2 in E minor (Part Two) ?:?? Сергей Рахманинов (Feb 1946)
  26. First Movement of Symphony no. 2 in E minor (Part One) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Frank Black (Feb 1946)
  27. Jota aragonesa (Part One) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Mar 1946)
  28. Jota aragonesa (Part Two) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Mar 1946)
  29. Hungarian Dance no. 1 ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Mar 1946)
  30. Fantasia for Double String Orchestra (Part 2) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Apr 1946)
  31. Fantasia for Double String Orchestra (Part 1) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Apr 1946)
  32. Enigma Variation no. 7 ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Apr 1946)
  33. Overture to a Fairy Tale ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Apr 1946)
  34. Fantasia for Double String Orchestra (Part 3) (Conclusion) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (Apr 1946)
  35. Firebird Suite (Part Two) ?:?? NBC Symphony, Franco Autori (Oct 1946)
  36. Firebird Suite (Part One) ?:?? NBC Symphony, Franco Autori (Oct 1946)
  37. Firebird Suite (Part Three) ?:?? NBC Symphony, Franco Autori (Oct 1946)
  38. Firebird Suite (Part Four) ?:?? NBC Symphony, Franco Autori (Oct 1946)
  39. Gold and Silver Waltz ?:?? Franco Autori (Nov 1946)
  40. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part One): Dance of Aischi ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Dec 1946)
  41. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part Three): Variation Armena ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Dec 1946)
  42. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part Two): Folk Dances From Kurtsk ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Dec 1946)
  43. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part Two): Adagio Gayne (Beginning) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Dec 1946)
  44. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part Three): Adagio Gayne (Conclusion) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Dec 1946)
  45. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part Three): Lezginka (Caucasian Folk Dances) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Dec 1946)
  46. Suite no. 2, Ballet Gayne (Part Two): Dances of the Young People of Kurdov ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Dec 1946)
  47. Sunday in Brooklyn (Part One) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Feb 1947)
  48. Sunday in Brooklyn (Part Three) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Feb 1947)
  49. Sunday in Brooklyn (Part Two) ?:?? NBC Symphony Orchestra (Feb 1947)

Instruments

  1. Souvenir of Florence (Part Two) ?:?? Strings of NBC Symphony Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz (Mar 1947)

Credited as (263)

  1. NBC Symphony Orchestra
  2. William Burroughs & NBC Symphony Orchestra
  3. Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky; Horowitz, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  4. Brahms; Horowitz, Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra
  5. Beethoven, Wagner; Dame Myra Hess, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  6. Mendelssohn, Wagner; Jascha Heifetz, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  7. Beethoven; NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  8. NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  9. Sibelius; NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  10. NBC Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski
  11. Antonín Dvořák, Zoltán Kodály, Bedřich Smetana; NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  12. Frédéric Chopin; Arthur Rubinstein, Alfred Wallenstein, William Steinberg, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NBC Symphony Orchestra
  13. Arthur Rubinstein, William Steinberg, NBC Symphony Orchestra
  14. J. S. Bach, Vivaldi, Handel; NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, Mischa Mischakoff
  15. Brahms; NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, Mischa Mischakoff, Frank Miller
  16. NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, Mischa Mischakoff, Frank Miller
  17. Jean Sibelius; NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  18. Claude Debussy; Arturo Toscanini & NBC Symphony Orchestra
  19. Emanuel Feuermann, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  20. Frank Miller, Carlton Cooley, Daniel Guilet, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  21. Beethoven, Brahms; Jascha Heifetz, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky
  22. Jascha Heifetz, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  23. Brahms; Vladimir Horowitz, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  24. Владимир Самойлович Горовиц, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  25. Ania Dorfmann, Westminster Choir, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  26. Arthur Rubinstein, NBC Symphony Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra
  27. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, Vladimir Horowitz
  28. Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky; Arthur Rubinstein, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann, Dimitri Mitropoulos
  29. Giuseppe Verdi; NBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Arturo Toscanini, Vinay, Nelli, Valdengo, Assandri, Chabay, Nicola Moscona
  30. Debussy; NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  31. Ludwig van Beethoven; Arturo Toscanini & NBC Symphony Orchestra
  32. Ludwig van Beethoven; Arturo Toscanini; NBC Symphony Orchestra
  33. Brahms; NBC Symphony Orchestra, Toscanini
  34. Čajkovskij; Orchestra RIAS Berlino, István Kertész, Van Cliburn, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  35. Westminster Choir, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  36. Vladimir Horowitz, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  37. Ludwig van Beethoven; NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  38. Respighi; NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  39. Arthur Rubinstein, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  40. Rudolf Serkin, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  41. Lauritz Melchior, Helen Traubel, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  42. Rose Bampton, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  43. Ania Dorfmann, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  44. Leonard Sharrow, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  45. Frank Miller, Mischa Mischakoff, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  46. Eileen Farrell, Nan Merriman, Jan Peerce, Norman Scott, Robert Shaw Chorale, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  47. Benny Goodman, Earl Wild, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  48. George Cook, Joseph Kahn, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  49. Carlton Cooley, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
  50. Oscar Levant, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
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Works (1)

Works Premiered

  1. Adagio for Strings (05 Nov 1938)

Events (1)

Orchestra At

  1. [radio broadcast]

Links (10)

Other Databases

  1. https://d-nb.info/gnd/1212469-2
  2. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81146608
  3. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81146608
  4. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/103406
  5. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139052288

Wikipedia

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Symphony_Orchestra

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/279614

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000059582

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/140858137

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1777060