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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 10/12/1966

Description: This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes rehearsals of Cherubini's Symphony in D.
Date: October 12, 1966
Duration: 54 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Gillis, Don
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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 10/19/1966

Description: This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Beethoven's Overture to The Consecration of the House and Boito's Prologue to Mefistofele, and an interview with the Albeneri Trio.
Date: October 19, 1966
Duration: 53 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Gillis, Don
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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 10/26/1966

Description: This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Beethoven's Overture to Coriolanus, Franck's Psyché et Eros, and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
Date: October 26, 1966
Duration: 54 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Gillis, Don
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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 11/2/1966

Description: This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Kabalevsky's Overture to Colas Breugnon and Verdi's Rigoletto, Act IV, and an interview with music publisher Eugene Weintraub.
Date: November 2, 1966
Duration: 52 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Gillis, Don
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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 11/9/1966

Description: This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Wagner's Faust Overture and Schubert's Symphony no. 5, and an interview with publisher Marziale Sisca.
Date: November 9, 1966
Duration: 53 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Gillis, Don
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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 11/16/1966

Description: This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Thomas' Overture to Mignon and Elgar's Enigma Variations and features an interview with La Folia publisher Marziale Sisca.
Date: November 16, 1966
Duration: 53 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Gillis, Don
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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 11/23/1966

Description: This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Brahms's Variations on a Theme of Haydn and Haydn's Surprise Symphony.
Date: November 23, 1966
Duration: 54 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Gillis, Don
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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 11/30/1966

Description: This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Berlioz's Rákóczy March, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel and Respighi's Pines of Rome and features an interview with NBC sound effects specialist Chet Hi… more
Date: November 30, 1966
Duration: 53 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Gillis, Don
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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 12/7/1966

Description: This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes rehearsal and performance of Strauss's Death and Transfiguration.
Date: December 7, 1966
Duration: 53 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Gillis, Don
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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 12/14/1966

Description: This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Beethoven's Prometheus Overture and Symphony No. 7 and features an interview with music producer and conductor Arthur Austin.
Date: December 14, 1966
Duration: 53 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Gillis, Don
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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 12/21/1966

Description: This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor, Gluck's Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.
Date: December 21, 1966
Duration: 52 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Gillis, Don
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NBC Radio Broadcast: Toscanini - The Man Behind the Legend, 12/28/1966

Description: This recording is a part of the radio series “Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend,” which was a tribute to conductor Arturo Toscanini. The broadcasts consist of music performed by the NBC Orchestra as well as interviews with composers, conductors, orchestra members, and other people associated with Toscanini. This segment includes performances of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda and a feature called "The Maestro and his Singers".
Date: December 28, 1966
Duration: 52 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Gillis, Don

The One O'Clock Lab Band with Stan Kenton on ABC, 1966

Description: The One O'Clock Lab Band with Leon Breeden and Stan Kenton in Los Angeles, recorded by the ABC television network, recorded April 4, 1966. Lab Band personnel are: Saxophones: John Giordano, Tim Bell, Lou Marini, Ray Loeckle, Tom Boras | Trumpets: Galen Jeter, Larry Ford, Bill Stapleton, Jay Saunders, Jim Scaggiari | Trombones: Mike Heathman, Ray Campbell, Connie Seidel, Joe Randazzo, Rick McCarthy | Rhythm: Dan Haerle, piano; John Monaghan, bass; Ed Soph, drums; Tommy Bruner, guitar; Bill Farm… more
Date: April 4, 1966
Duration: 29 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Breeden, Leon

Oscillations

Description: Recording of Janez Matičič's Oscillations. This work represents the composer's first electroacoustic composition which was produced as four-channel sound. Motions of sound, specifically from the phenomenon of gravitation, feature prominently in this composition. This work was created using concrete sounds only.
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Date: 1966
Duration: 5 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Matičič, Janez

Plectros II

Description: Commissioned by Chilean pianist Carla Hübner, and premiered by her at the Latin American Music Festival, Bloomington, Indiana, in 1966. In Plectros II the composer extends the idea first explored in his Plectros I - the opposition of two different worlds of sounds. It requires the interpreter to extract "electronic" type of sounds from the piano using both the keyboard and the inside of the piano. No special mallets are required, and the pianist uses fingernails, fingertips or the palm of the… more
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Date: 1966
Duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides

[Stan Kenton signing autographs]

Description: Photograph of Stan Kenton, surrounded by a small group of children and adults, signing autographs. He is seated at a desk and there is a blackboard with music staffs behind them. Crossed out on the back of the photograph: photo by Jim Sloan; Kenton clinic, U. of Redlands, 1966.
Date: 1966
Creator: Sloan, Jim

Symphonie

Description: Recording of Boguslaw Schaeffer's Symphonie. "Towards the end of 1964, I began work on a large format electronic work. From the beginning, I called it Symphony, not to obey the spirit of contradiction, which is a way of creating a long time out of use, but being convinced that this name is likely to new applications, there especially where it is a matter of simultaneously resonating a sound matter of very disparate origin, thus proceeding by symphonic means. That was our idea of departure. Yet,… more
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Date: 1966
Duration: 17 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Schaeffer, Boguslaw
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