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

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does the book list Claude Arnold's score for "Bridge on the River Kwai"?

(Interesting..I've never seen a 12" Pathe Actuelle either Obviously there are 
at least 4 others. And very few 12" OKeh classical acousticals..I gave Father 
Arnold one years ago.)

dl

Robert J Hodge wrote:
> According to Malcolm Arnold's "The Orchestra on Record" it is the
> "Waldorf Astoria Concert Orchestra" conducted by Joseph Knecht.
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> Issued December 1920. 
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> Bob Hodge 
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> Nope.  Not there or under Waldorf Astoria either.
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> It's "Concert Orchestra" which makes it a bit more perplexing.
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> 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."
> > 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
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> > this?
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> > Steve Smolian