Re: [ARSCLIST] Pathe 12" Waldorf-Astoria DO

[Robert J Hodge <rjhodge@xxxxxxx>]

According to Malcolm Arnold's "The Orchestra on Record" it is the
"Waldorf Astoria Concert Orchestra" conducted by Joseph Knecht.

Issued December 1920. 

Bob Hodge 

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Nope.  Not there or under Waldorf Astoria either.

It's "Concert Orchestra" which makes it a bit more perplexing.

Steve

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> usually the orchestra was associated with bandleader Joseph
Knecht--check
> Rust's Dance Bands vol. 1.
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> I just received a Pathe Actuelle  12" 78, 15105.  It contains
Chabrier's
> Habanera (originally a piano piece, here orchestrated similarly to
that by
> the composer) and the March of the Toys from Herbert's "Babes in
Toyland."
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> The performing group is credited as the Waldorf-Astoria Concert
Orchestra.
> It sounds like 20 or so musicians.
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> Who conducts?  What was this doing on Pathe as a 12"?   Something here
> smells fishy- another group in disguise.
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> I can't say I've seen many other 12" Actuelles.  Is there a story
behind
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