Then perhaps you could tell me what orchestra Leinsdorf recorded with on Musicraft.
Roger Kulp
"Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Stern"
accidentally opened this post and Musicraft caught my eye - perhaps you
are talking of some specific genre...,
Musicraft had a large classical catalog in the late 30's, in addition to
the specialty items (Revuers, Cradle, Leadbelly, Sandburg etc.)
They abandoned classical in the 40's. and turned to jazz and pop - an
impressive and important catalog
I am not particularly informed about the Asch classical material
(would like any info people would care to share). Thanks.
As I recall, Musicraft first appeared in the late nineteen-thirties
as (one of?) the first "indie" (i.e. neither ARC or RCA) labels, and
specialized in recording material that the "big guys" didn't (either
obscure artists, obscure genres or a combination of both...). With
the postwar/post-ban rise of "indie" labels by the hundreds, they
decided to enter the "mainstream" market (iirc, they got a distribution
set-up with GE...). I have, somewhere in my half-vast discographic
holdings, a fairly early Musicraft catalogue...if I can dig it out,
I'll post the contained info therein...
Steven C. Barr
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