Re: [ARSCLIST] ] Which U.S. Orchestra Recorded First? & CRC comment

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Smolian wrote:

 My just-published article refrred to in the subject line expands and 
rewrites the history of
 American orchestral recording.

 Part one was retitled by the magazine, "Classic Record Collector" as 
"Strohs in the Wind."
 Even if you get the English magazine and glance at the table of contents, 
you'd be hard
 pressed (cut?) to know this was the topic.

 This research brings the timeline back to the 1880s.  It changes the dates 
and sequence of
 orchestras which made non-commercial and commercial recordings and will 
untangle, in
 part 2, to appear this summer (?) a number of misascriptions made for 
reasons not quite
 clear.  The von Beulow" cylinder mystery is solved and some press reports 
whose subject
 is early recordings are degarbled.

 You can't download it, so you'll have to read all about it in the 
magazine.

 I'm hoping part two will be accompanied by examples posted on the 
magazine's web site.
 It's in England, where such early recordings are pd, unlike in another 
country I could
 mention.

 Steve Smolian

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Haven't seen the new issue yet. I kept meaning to drop CRC a line about 
something in the last
issue, but maybe someone has already pointed it out to them....a statement 
that the 1950
collection of Grainger pieces conducted by Stokowski had never been reissued 
on LP. It
definitely was, on the back of the Grainger+Sydney Symphony Grieg Concerto 
for Pianola
and Orchestra.

dl