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Re: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] RCA symphonic work competition -
Flip of Rhapsody in Blue, wasn't it? I avoid all those dubs anyway.
dl
Don Tait wrote:
Yes, there was an early LP version -- Victor 24000.
Don Tait
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I just rememberd that this was issued on a Victor Program Transcription
disc. 10 inch , If
memory serves? Don't know if there was a special sleeve for this one or
not.
Bob Hodge
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>>> smolians@xxxxxxxxx 4/17/2006 6:17 PM >>>
There was an insert and special sleeve for this record. A copy is at the
Johnson Victorla Muesum, Dover, DE.
It is also still Victor, not yet RCA.
Steve Smolian
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From: "Don Tait" <Dontaitchicago@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] RCA symphonic work competition - 1929
> I have a copy of the 78 to which Steve Smolian referred, Victor 36000.
> The
> labels read
>
> 36000-A -- TWO SYMPHONIC SKETCHES
> (a) Nocturne (b) March
> (1st Prize Award)
> (Thomas Griselle)
>
> 36000-B -- SONG OF THE BAYOU
> (2nd Prize Award)
> (Rube Bloom)
>
> The Griselle is credited to the Victor Concert Orchestra, the Bloom to
> the
> Victor Salon Group (male voices). The conductor of both is Nathaniel
> Shilkret.
>
> It's interesting that the label doesn't say what contest these works
won,
> but I gather from what Steve wrote that there was accompanying publicity
> (that
> would be typical of Victor) and perhaps the company assumed that
> purchasers
> would know.
>
> Don Tait
>
>
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> Isn't this the composition for which Tom Griselle won a prize for his
Two
> American Nocturnes? (Also on a Naxos CD, Symphonic Jazz.)
>
> dl
>
> Alec McLane wrote:
>
> There were actually only 4 composers because Robert Russell Bennett
> was awarded 2/5 of the prize. Here's from the liner notes to a Naxos
> recording of Bennett's _Abraham Lincoln_ (quoted at
> http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?
>
>
item_code=8.559004&catNum=559004&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English):
>
> __________________________
> In Paris and Berlin in 1927-28, on a Guggenheim Scholarship, he
> noticed an RCA Victor competition with a prize of 25,000 dollars for
> an outstanding orchestral composition, with a small prize for a
> lighter piece of music. He submitted the two works on this disc - the
> patriotic Abraham Lincoln and the abstract orchestral painting of
> Sights and Sounds. Both pieces were scored for an enormous band of
> musicians and are of large proportions.
>
> RCA Victor's jury consisted of Leopold Stokowski, Serge Koussevitzky,
> Frederick Stock, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff. They decided no work
> was better than any other to win outright and awarded five prizes to
> Aaron Copland's Dance Symphony, Louis Gruenberg's Symphony, Ernst
> Bloch's Helvetia and two 5,000 dollar awards to Bennett's pieces.
>
> Despite their huge orchestral forces, Bennett's prizewinners were
> then published. Abraham Lincoln was first performed by Stokowski and
> the Philadelphia Orchestra in October 1931, with a second performance
> given a fortnight later at the dedication of the Juilliard School's
> new auditorium. For this, Bennett wrote his own programme notes,
> drawn from below.
> ___________________________
>
> Alec
>
> At 11:19 AM 4/17/2006, Paul Charosh wrote:
> >
> >
> >In 1929, RCA Victor offered a prize of $25,000 for a new symphonic
> work.
> >The
> >prize was divided among five composers. Copland was one; he received
> $5,000
> >for his submission.
> >
> >How to find out who were the other four recipients? Also, who at
> RCA/Victor
> >was in charge of the competition? Can one find out who were the
> judges?
> >Can
> >one find out who submitted works?
> >
> >Paul Charosh
>
>
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> Alec McLane
> Scores & Recordings/
> World Music Archives Phone: (860) 685-3899
> Olin Library Fax: (860) 685-2661
> Wesleyan University mailto:amclane@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Middletown, CT 06459
http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/srhome/srdir.htm
>
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