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	Orchestra
		A full size orchestra may sometimes be called a "symphony orchestra" or "philharmonic orchestra"; these prefixes do not indicate any difference either to the instrumental content or role of the orchestra, but can be useful to distinguish different orchestras based in the same city (for instance, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra).
		Orchestras sometimes use freelance musicians to enable them to perform works which require instrumentalists which they do not have on staff; not all orchestras employ a harpist for example.
		With the formation of standing orchestras, and the expansion of the winds and brass, as well as the ability of winds and brass instruments to be intune with each other, it created the ability of the wind and brass to be more easily massed.
	www.mp3.fm /Orchestra.htm (1844 words)

	Orchestra - Gurupedia
		Full size orchestras may sometimes be called "symphony orchestras" or "philharmonic orchestras"; these prefixes do not indicate any difference either to the instrumental content or role of the orchestra, but can be useful to distinguish different orchestras based in the same city (for instance, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra).
		As the early 20th century dawned, symphony orchestras were larger, better funded and better trained than ever before, and consequently composers could compose larger and more ambitious works for them.
		Orchestras are also frequently assembled for use in film scores, as well as using already established orchestras for musical performances.
	www.gurupedia.com /o/or/orchestra.htm (1567 words)

	NBC Symphony Orchestra
		The NBC Symphony Orchestra was established in 1937 by NBC for the conductor Arturo Toscanini, with whom it made weekly national broadcasts, and also recordings, of symphonic and operatic music for many years.
		The orchestra toured South America with Toscanini in 1939 and the USA in 1950.
		Some members of the orchestra went on to play with other symphony orchestras, but many members formed the conductor-less Symphony of the Air, which existed for a few more years until it disbanded.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/n/nb/nbc_symphony_orchestra.html (151 words)

	Story of the NBC Symphony Orchestra
		Many people regard the years 1937 through 1954, When the NBC Symphony Orchestra performed under the direction of Arturo Toscanini, as the golden age of the symphony orchestra in America.
		The orchestra which Toscanini came to conduct was unique among its kind, for it was created to serve expressly as the instrument of one man's genius.
		The performances of the NBC Symphony, listened to by millions and capable of being heard in every living room on earth, established radio as the most powerful instrument developed up to that time for cultural extension.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/1937/nbchistory.html (1549 words)

	NBC Symphony Orchestra (Symphony Orchestra) - Short History
		Offering the highest salaries of any orchestra and a 52-week contract, NBC attracted top orchestral musicians: 21 of them were former section leaders of other orchestras.
		It was immediately ranked as one of the world's great orchestras, famous for its precise, lean sound, even though the players had to do routine radio work in addition to symphony concerts.
		The orchestra had many distinguished alumni: violist William Primrose; violinist Josef Gingold; cellists Naoum Benditzky (of the Gordon Quartet) and Alan Shulman (Stuyvesant Quartet); and future conductors Milton Katims and Frank Brieff, to name just a few.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/NBCSO.htm (302 words)

	Mitropoulos more
		he orchestra itself was one of the most difficult and recalcitrant in the world, with a membership whose arrogance and intractability was legendary.
		On October 31, 1959, he conducted Mahler's massive Symphony No. 3 with the Cologne Radio Orchestra (a performance that was taped and which has been released) and went to Milan to prepare a performance of the same work the next day.
		While rehearsing the symphony, he was stricken with a fatal heart attack and died at the podium.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /mitropoulos_more.html (1703 words)

	Alabama Symphony Orchestra - Featured Conductors - Paul Polivnick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Maestro Polivnick was music director of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra from 1985-1993, during which time the season grew from 40 to 46 weeks of concerts.
		From 1981-1984, Paul Polivnick was associate conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and from 1984-1985, its associate principal conductor.
		After private study with Boris Koutzen, former first violin with the late Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra, and Raymond Crisara, trumpeter with the same orchestra, Polivnick entered The Julliard School in 1965.
	www.alabamasymphony.org /conductors-polivnick.html (859 words)

	SoundStage! Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra - The Television Concerts Volumes One - Five
		When television was in its infancy, the two major networks, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), both wanted to project a highbrow image by adding symphonic music to their programming.
		CBS hired Bernard Herrmann to conduct the CBS Symphony Orchestra.
		NBC already had one of the most famous conductors alive, Arturo Toscanini, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra for their radio network, so they just moved conductor and orchestra into the TV studios.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev810.htm (603 words)

	Classical Net Review - Maestrino - The Stokowski Legacy - Part II
		This is aLondon Symphony Orchestra the fastest of the 8 recordings, 18:37 vs. a 22:17 for the London Symphony Orchestra performance.
		This NBC recording is better than the Dutton of the '35, but still not as good as the 1935 on Pearl..
		The Tchaikovsky Symphony and the Prokofieff were recorded at the Cosmopolitan Opera House in New York while acoustic improvements were made to NBC's Studio 8-H. The improvements included installation of panels to make the studio more reverberant.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/b/bbc91542a.html (2183 words)

	Theremin Vox - NBC Symphony Orchestra
		The NBC Symphony Orchestra was established as a commercial venture in 1937 by General David Sarnoff of NBC in order to coax the recently retired conductor Arturo Toscanini to come to America.
		The orchestra, which gave its first broadcast concert from NBC Studio 8-H on Christmas Day, 1937, under Toscanini's direction, made weekly broadcasts for the NBC Red and Blue networks, recordings of symphonic, choral and operatic music, and even several televised concerts beginning in 1948.
		Some members of the orchestra went on to play with other symphony orchestras, notibly Frank Miller (first chair cello) and Leonard Sharrow (first chair bassoon) with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but many members formed the conductor-less Symphony of the Air, which existed for a few more years until it disbanded.
	www.thereminvox.com /article/view/151/1/35 (256 words)

	DRAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		So, when NBC decided to disband the orchestra following Toscanini's retirement, it was Don Gillis who spearheaded the efforts to reconstitute the ensemble as the Symphony Of The Air.
		Symphony No. 5 1/2 was introduced by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra in May, 1947, and received its radio premiere in September of the same year by no less than Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony.
		The Albany Symphony Orchestra as received 14 consecutive ASCAP awards for adventuresome programming and was awarded the first ASCAP/ Leonard Bernstein Award for Educational Programming in 1999.
	dlib.nyu.edu /dram/note.cgi?id=31637 (1940 words)

	Virginia Symphony Orchestra :: Music Without Boundaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Shulman was a charter member of the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini in 1937, served in the U.S. Maritime Service 1942-45, rejoining NBC from 1948-54.
		Toscanini, who was always supportive of his musicians’ efforts outside the orchestra, was in the audience and liked the piece enough to encourage Shulman to orchestrate it for the NBC orchestra.
		Finally obliged to confront head on the dire implications of his increasing deafness, he realized that this affliction was not only the cruelest blow to the practice of his art but also would in all likelihood deny him the normal friendships and family life to which he aspired.
	www.virginiasymphony.org /explore/notes/may11-06.html (1753 words)

	Review: Arturo Toscanini Conducts Sibelius
		This is not the case with this wonderful omnibus of Sibelius recordings by legendary Italian maestro, Arturo Toscanini and the orchestra which was assembled just so that he could conduct it, the NBC Symphony.
		His reading of the symphony, as well as the NBC's nearly flawless playing (a squeak from a clarinet in the final bars of the finale suggests a split reed) are communicated with such naturalness and finality that leads one to think that "this is the way this symphony was meant to be heard."
		Through Toscanini's baton, the NBC brings to these pieces the sense of loneliness, delicacy, exaltation and sadness that the composer intended in these retellings of Finnish runic legends.
	home.flash.net /~park29/toscanini.htm (1187 words)

	The NBC Symphony Orchestra - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		The NBC Symphony Orchestra was formed in 1937 expressly for..
		Their weekly live performances were justly celebrated by critics and audiences alike, with Toscanini also leading his troops into the studio for a series of well-received recordings.
		All told, the NBC Symphony Orchestra enjoyed 17 years of success before Toscanini -- age 87 -- finally retired after one last performance on April 4, 1951, bringing a golden era to its close.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,727814,00.html (245 words)

	Tribute to Toscanini on 50th anniversary - Boston.com
		The New York Philharmonic's 76-year-old music director was only 11 when he conducted Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1941.
		He was asked to wield the baton after turning heads by leading an orchestra two years earlier at the New York World's Fair.
		He moved to the United States in 1908 to lead the Metropolitan Opera before going to the Philharmonic and later to the NBC Symphony, which was created for him in 1937 by RCA chief David Sarnoff.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2007/01/12/tribute_to_toscanini_on_50th_anniversary (690 words)

	Virginia Symphony Orchestra :: Music Without Boundaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Violin Concerto was commissioned for Mark Peskanov by Williams College (Williamstown, MA), the Lancaster (PA.) Symphony and the Louisville Orchestra.
		The second movement is a free transcription of a choral composition that the composer thought might work better for orchestra because of its frequent, sudden and distant modulations, which eventually settle quietly on a final C Major triad.
		The symphony, however, is hardly an American pastiche; the second motive in the largo movement is a phrase of wrenching musical longing which many listeners interpret as the composer’s nostalgia for his native Bohemia.
	www.virginiasymphony.org /explore/notes/nov19-05.html (1608 words)

	Octet in E-flat major for Strings, Op. 20
		The National Symphony Orchestra performed the Scherzo from this work, in Mendelssohn's orchestration for full orchestra, under Mstislav Rostropovich on April 20, 22, and 25, 1989, but has not performed the entire work, with the strings alone, until the present concerts.
		Apart from simply expanding the numbers of these instruments, the present performances include double basses as well, which were added by Arturo Toscanini for his broadcast performance of the work with his NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1947.
		Perhaps it was because these outstanding musicians knew that unless they made orchestra versions of these pieces they would never have the opportunity to perform some of the greatest music ever created.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=3182 (1307 words)

	Toscanini Lives by Terry Teachout - על המנצח ארתורו טוסקניני
		The following year, the NBC radio network offered to organize a studio orchestra with which he could broadcast and record as often as he wished, and the NBC Symphony was born.
		The NBC Symphony broadcast from Studio 8-H, a small, unresonant auditorium in New York’s Rockefeller Center that lacked the bloom of a true concert hall.
		Too young to have a memory of the NBC Symphony, some writers, by ignoring verifiable truth, have alleged that those broadcasts pandered to commercialism and that Toscanini was an anti-intellectual obsessed with speed, whose reputation was derived from a cult of older critics blind to his many shortcomings.
	www.klassi.net /new_reviews/opus30 (3407 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		He also played trombone in the staff orchestra of radio station WBAP from 1932 to 1935 and directed a symphony orchestra of his own at Polytechnic Baptist Church from 1935 to 1942.
		Gillis produced several NBC radio programs, including "Serenade to America" and "NBC Concert Hour." After Toscanini retired in 1954 Gillis, serving as president of the Symphony Foundation of America, was instrumental in helping to form the Symphony of the Air, using members of the old NBC Symphony.
		His more than 150 works include ten symphonies; six string quartets; The Panhandle, a symphonic suite; The Alamo; Symphony No. 5½, "a symphony for fun," the world premiere of which was conducted by Toscanini; Portrait of a Frontier Town; Alice in Orchestralia; Texas Centennial March; Amarillo-A Symphonic Celebration; and Toscanini: A Portrait of a Century.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/GG/fgi34.html (619 words)

	BRIDGE 9119 - The Music of Alan Shulman
		This CD presents rarely heard music of Alan Shulman in performances by one of the country’s great orchestras- the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
		They were, however, performed by virtually every major American symphony orchestra, and conducted by such luminaries as Barbirolli, Mitropoulos, Dorati, Fiedler, Ozawa and Levine.
		A member of the NBC Symphony, Shulman’s music was frequently performed by that orchestra.
	www.bridgerecords.com /pages/catalog/9119.htm (147 words)

	Symphony No. 2, "Short Symphony"
		The Short Symphony, composed between 1931 and 1933, was given its premiere in Mexico City on November 23, 1934, by the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México under Carlos Chávez.
		In 1937 it was transformed into his Sextet for Clarinet, Piano and String Quartet, with hardly any changes in the music itself, and in that form it became one of his most successful works in the realm of chamber music.
		The Symphonyin its original orchestral dress was to wait ten years for its U.S. premiere, finally given by Stokowski with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1944.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2406 (509 words)

	Amazon.com: Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra: The Television Concerts, Vol. 5 - 1948-52: DVD: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Amazon.com: Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra: The Television Concerts, Vol.
		Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra: The Television Concerts, Vol.
		This is the fifth and final volume in the series of Toscanini/NBC Symphony Orchestra live concerts.
	www.amazon.com /Arturo-Toscanini-NBC-Symphony-Orchestra/dp/B000CNGC52 (1470 words)

	Cedar Rapids Symphony
		In 1983, she was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in music for her Symphony No.1, and in 1995 she was named to the first Composer's Chair in the history of Carnegie Hall.
		The Symphony's harsh tone became the subject of a long discussion at the Composers' Union, but Shostakovich himself cannily criticized the work for various supposed technical shortcomings, thus deflecting the general condemnation of the work's overall emotional tone.
		The Symphony is replete with extra-musical symbolism craftily woven into the complex fabric of the score.
	www.crsymphony.org /attendconcerts_programnotes.asp?PM=mw2 (1449 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		His Haydn may not be textually up to date (the slow movement begins tutti, for example, and not with solo strings), but it has both classical poise and sinewy strength, especially in the minuet and finale.
		Cantelli executes tricky passages such as the transitions between tempos in the first movement, and the return of the symphony's principal themes in the finale in their various transformations, with organic coherence (and the sound is good stereo).
		The NBC may not have quite the Chicago orchestra's amplitude of sound, but Cantelli inspired his players to some pretty impressive feats of individual and collective virtuosity.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=2246 (307 words)

	New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Members
		MARTIN SKLAR studied with the principal bassists of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, Robert Brennand, John Schaeffer, and Philip Sklar (his Father).
		Sklar was a member of the St. Louis and Houston Symphonies and the Houston Opera society.
		Sklar, is the Music Director of "The August Symphony Orchestra", a community-based summer symphony orchestra based in Springfield, NJ.
	www.njsymphony.org /aboutus/musiciansstaff/M_SKLAR.htm (192 words)

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