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wade

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May 14, 2016, 3:47:13 PM5/14/16
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Now that we have detailed discographies for NYPhil, Boston & Philadelphia, is there anything comparable in the works for Chicago? LA? Cleveland?

markm...@gmail.com

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May 14, 2016, 3:58:25 PM5/14/16
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On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 2:47:13 PM UTC-5, wade wrote:
> Now that we have detailed discographies for NYPhil, Boston & Philadelphia, is there anything comparable in the works for Chicago? LA? Cleveland?

Donald Rosenberg's excellent history of the Cleveland Orchestra has a discography of everything Cleveland recorded from 1924 to 2000. I have not checked online yet, but the Cleveland Orchestra may have a more complete one through their website - they are good custodians of their heritage.

I have a Chicago discography from 1916 through 1980. It's in pamphlet form and, for the life of me, I can't remember where I got it. Perhaps the CSO has an updated version.

Mark

wade

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May 14, 2016, 4:11:19 PM5/14/16
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the cleveland orch discog in the book that I have doesnt include the level of detail comparable to the other discog books mentioned.

Mark Obert-Thorn

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May 14, 2016, 4:21:13 PM5/14/16
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On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 3:47:13 PM UTC-4, wade wrote:
> Now that we have detailed discographies for NYPhil, Boston & Philadelphia, is there anything comparable in the works for Chicago? LA? Cleveland?

Rich Kaplan, who did the very thorough Philadelphia discography, has told me he's at work on one for Chicago now.

Mark O-T

oldeastsider

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May 14, 2016, 7:56:19 PM5/14/16
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On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 2:47:13 PM UTC-5, wade wrote:
> Now that we have detailed discographies for NYPhil, Boston & Philadelphia, is there anything comparable in the works for Chicago? LA? Cleveland?

I believe Don Tait produced a 19 page discography of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a WFMT Chicago Symphony Radiothon in either the late 1970's or early 1980's. It was offered as a premium for a donation to the Radiothon. I don't know why Don never extended his work.

Paul

jeffc

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May 16, 2016, 7:29:58 AM5/16/16
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Wasn't Henry Fogel once a participant on this group?

http://www.wfmt.com/programs/collectors-corner-with-henry-fogel/

Wouldn't he have unfettered access to all things CSO -- and be
the logical author of such a catalog?

Frank Berger

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May 16, 2016, 7:56:53 AM5/16/16
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Ex-employees don't usually have access to company records
and is there any reason to suppose that Mr. Fogel, who
appears to be employed, would have the time or interest?

largo_57

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May 16, 2016, 11:45:52 AM5/16/16
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On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 2:47:13 PM UTC-5, wade wrote:
> Now that we have detailed discographies for NYPhil, Boston & Philadelphia, is there anything comparable in the works for Chicago? LA? Cleveland?

Greenwood Press published a Cleveland Orchestra discography (by Frederick Fellers and Betty Meyers) that was complete through 1977. It may still be available:

http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=B2841C

I remember noting that a large number of Rodzinski's recordings with the orchestra were done in single takes.

oldeastsider

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May 16, 2016, 4:31:10 PM5/16/16
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On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 2:47:13 PM UTC-5, wade wrote:
> Now that we have detailed discographies for NYPhil, Boston & Philadelphia, is there anything comparable in the works for Chicago? LA? Cleveland?

It just occured to me that there is an excellent discographyof the Reiner Era in Philip Hart's Biography "Fritz Reiner", Northwestern University Press,1994.

Mr. Mike

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May 22, 2016, 12:49:59 PM5/22/16
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On Sat, 14 May 2016 12:58:23 -0700 (PDT), markm...@gmail.com wrote:

>I have a Chicago discography from 1916 through 1980. It's in pamphlet form
>and, for the life of me, I can't remember where I got it. Perhaps the CSO
>has an updated version.

I inherited some pamphlets like this. There is no indication as to who
published it. The discography pamphlet I have goes from 1916-1989. I
have put it here:

http://mjq.net/misc/ChicagoSO-Discography.pdf

The other two pamphlets I have are

1) Repertory 1891-1989 (118 pages)
2) Soloists and Assisting Artists 1891-1989; Popular Series and
Special Concerts 1965-1989 (16 pages)

Frank Berger

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May 22, 2016, 1:25:53 PM5/22/16
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There's a Reiner discography here that includes at least a
few concert recordings not mentioned in the pamphlet.

http://www.stokowski.org/Reiner_Chicago_Symphony_Concerts.htm#1957

Dana John Hill

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May 23, 2016, 1:56:05 PM5/23/16
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On 5/14/2016 7:56 PM, oldeastsider wrote:
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> I believe Don Tait produced a 19 page discography of the Chicago
> Symphony Orchestra for a WFMT Chicago Symphony Radiothon in either
> the late 1970's or early 1980's. It was offered as a premium for a
> donation to the Radiothon. I don't know why Don never extended his
> work.
>

Now there's a person whose posts I have always found interesting and
valuable.

Dana

ronl

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May 23, 2016, 11:29:48 PM5/23/16
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On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 2:47:13 PM UTC-5, wade wrote:
> Now that we have detailed discographies for NYPhil, Boston & Philadelphia, is there anything comparable in the works for Chicago? LA? Cleveland?

I'll post an updated draft of a CSO discography over the next few days to week. To my knowledge, there hasn't been a CSO discography issued for quite a number of years, in part owing to the lower priority of support for the Archive in the last 10-15years (staff reductions, etc). As a decades-long collector of CSO recordings, I had a great opportunity to work on, and donate recordings to, several of the earlier fund-raising CD sets issued by the Orchestra, in concert (no pun) with Henry Fogel, Don Tait, Norm Pellegrini, Gary Stucka, Brenda Nelson-Strauss and others. At about the same time (25 years ago), a long-time friend Richard Oldberg, retired member of the French Horn section, had developed a discography so the updated list I'll provide shortly will build upon his fine foundational work.

The update will include composer/piece, soloist(s) where applicable, conductor, recording location and date and record company. I have opted not to include 78/LP/CD record numbers for there have been so many re-issues of many of the items to render inclusion of all iterations a herculean task.

So...a short patience, please.

Ron L

wanwan

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May 24, 2016, 12:12:57 AM5/24/16
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It's mind boggling the amount of works that Reiner played but never recorded. Plus the work of guests in the house with the Reiner era orchestra that were never broadcast were drool worthy. It must have been an amazing era to attend concerts in Chicago.

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