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Re: [ARSCLIST] Pathe 12" Waldorf-Astoria DO
I have a 12" Okeh acoustic classical 78.
Roger
David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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.
>
> 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.
>> Dick
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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
>> this?
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>> Steve Smolian
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