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NBC Symphony Orchestra
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The NBC Symphony Orchestra was a radio orchestra established by David Sarnoff of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) especially for conductor Arturo Toscanini. The NBC Symphony performed weekly radio concert broadcasts with Toscanini and other conductors and served as house orchestra for the network, beginning November 13, 1937 and continuing until 1954. Tom Lewis, in the Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, described NBC's plan for cultural programming and the origin of the NBC Symphony: David Sarnoff, the president of RCA who had first proposed the "radio music box" in 1916 so that listeners might enjoy "concerts, lectures, music, recitals," felt that the medium was failing to do this. By 1937, RCA had recovered enough from the effects of the Depression for it to make a dramatic commitment to cultural programming. With the most liberal terms Sarnoff hired Arturo Toscanini to create an entire orchestra and conduct it. On Christmas night, 1937, the NBC orchestra gave its first performance—Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso in D Minor—in an entirely refurbished studio in the RCA Building. "The National Broadcasting Company is an American business organization. It has employees and stockholders. It serves their interests best when it serves the public best." That Christmas night, and whenever the NBC orchestra played over the next 17 years, he was right. Sarnoff devoted considerable resources to create an orchestra of the first rank for NBC. Artur Rodziński, a
top songs
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Concerto No.4 G major BWV 1049 : I. Allegro
3432Suite No. 3 from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 101: III. Juliet
2903Rhapsody in Blue
2684Enigma Variations, Op. 36: Variations 1 To 14
1115Bolero
806Rhapsody in Blue (Intro & Theme) (from Manhattan)
677Adagio for Strings
618Sebastian Suite: VII. Pavane
609Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36: II. Larghetto - 1939
5910Idillio di Sigfriedo (Recorded in NY 3/7/1953)
50albums
Johann Sebastian Bach : Brandenburg Concertos Nos.1-6
Wagner: Selection from Concerto No. 12
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Elgar Enigma Variations
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Woody Allen's Movie Music
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Highlights from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Beethoven, Mozart and Johann Strauss II
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Woody Allen & La Musique de Manhattan a Midnight in Paris
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Grosse Pianisten - Vladimir Horowitz
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Leopold Stokowski Conducts Holst, Debussy & Gould
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Beethoven - Best Of (Remastered)
Light Classical Favourites Volume I
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Toscanini conducts Beethoven: Symphonies No. 5 and 7 - Missa Solemnis
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Soundtrack to Woody Allen's 'Manhattan'