Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Columbia Symphony Orchestra was a collective name of Columbia Records for various record orchestras for the purpose of recordings .

In the 1950s and early 1960s, on the one hand, members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , the Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera and the NBC Symphony Orchestra were brought together in New York in order to enable recordings to be made free of the orchestra's later licensing requirements for record sales. There were recordings z. B. with Bruno Walter (1954–56) or Leonard Bernstein .

From 1957 the name was also used for an orchestra that had been specially put together for and by Bruno Walter to make new recordings in stereo after Columbia feared monaural recordings would lose their meaning . It consisted of members of Hollywood film orchestras and, for the most part, those of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b John L. Holmes: Conductors. A record collector's guide. Gollancz, London 1988, ISBN 0-575-04088-2 , p. 304.
^ John F. Berky: Pseudonyms: Alfred Scholz and the South German Philharmonic . abruckner.com 2003, rev. 2014 (English, PDF, 23 kB, accessed on July 9, 2015)

[Holmes-1] A ^b John L. Holmes: Conductors. A record collector's guide. Gollancz, London 1988, ISBN 0-575-04088-2 , p. 304.

[2] John F. Berky: Pseudonyms: Alfred Scholz and the South German Philharmonic . abruckner.com 2003, rev. 2014 (English, PDF, 23 kB, accessed on July 9, 2015)