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[Don Tait <Dontaitchicago@xxxxxxx>]

  Rhapsody in Blue might be the flip. I don't remember whether I have a copy, 
so I'd have to look it up. That sounds right.

  The Victor "Program Transcriptions" are nice artifacts, historical 
mementoes of the recording industry, and so fun to have -- for me. I've always taken 
them when I've found them. But most don't sound good because they're dubbings 
and I'm not interested in listening to them either.

  Don Tait
Flip of Rhapsody in Blue, wasn't it? I avoid all those dubs anyway.

dl

Don Tait wrote:

   Yes, there was an early LP version -- Victor 24000.

   Don Tait

   
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 I just rememberd that this was issued on a Victor Program Transcription 
disc. 10 inch , If
 memory serves? Don't know if there was a special sleeve for this one or 
not.

 Bob Hodge

 Robert Hodge,
 Senior Engineer
 Belfer Audio Archive
 Syracuse University
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 Syracuse N.Y. 13244-2010

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 FAX-315-443-4866

 >>> smolians@xxxxxxxxx 4/17/2006 6:17 PM >>>
 There was an insert and special sleeve for this record.  A copy is at the
 Johnson Victorla Muesum, Dover, DE.

 It is also still Victor, not yet RCA.

 Steve Smolian

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 From: "Don Tait" <Dontaitchicago@xxxxxxx>
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 Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 6:04 PM
 Subject: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] RCA symphonic work competition - 1929

 >  I have a copy of the 78 to which Steve Smolian referred, Victor 36000.
 > The
 > labels read
 >
 >  36000-A -- TWO SYMPHONIC SKETCHES
 >                    (a) Nocturne (b) March
 >                     (1st Prize Award)
 >                     (Thomas Griselle)
 >
 >  36000-B -- SONG OF THE BAYOU
 >                    (2nd Prize Award)
 >                       (Rube Bloom)
 >
 >  The Griselle is credited to the Victor Concert Orchestra, the Bloom to
 > the
 > Victor Salon Group (male voices). The conductor of both is Nathaniel
 > Shilkret.
 >
 >  It's interesting that the label doesn't say what contest these works 
won,
 > but I gather from what Steve wrote that there was accompanying publicity
 > (that
 > would be typical of Victor) and perhaps the company assumed that
 > purchasers
 > would know.
 >
 >  Don Tait
 >
 >

 
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 > Isn't this the composition for which Tom Griselle won a prize for his 
Two
 > American Nocturnes? (Also on a Naxos CD, Symphonic Jazz.)
 >
 > dl
 >
 > Alec McLane wrote:
 >
 >  There were actually only 4 composers because Robert Russell Bennett
 >  was awarded 2/5 of the prize. Here's from the liner notes to a Naxos
 >  recording of Bennett's _Abraham Lincoln_ (quoted at
 >  http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?
 >
 >
 
item_code=8.559004&catNum=559004&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English):
 >
 >  __________________________
 >  In Paris and Berlin in 1927-28, on a Guggenheim Scholarship, he
 >  noticed an RCA Victor competition with a prize of 25,000 dollars for
 >  an outstanding orchestral composition, with a small prize for a
 >  lighter piece of music. He submitted the two works on this disc - the
 >  patriotic Abraham Lincoln and the abstract orchestral painting of
 >  Sights and Sounds. Both pieces were scored for an enormous band of
 >  musicians and are of large proportions.
 >
 >  RCA Victor's jury consisted of Leopold Stokowski, Serge Koussevitzky,
 >  Frederick Stock, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff. They decided no work
 >  was better than any other to win outright and awarded five prizes to
 >  Aaron Copland's Dance Symphony, Louis Gruenberg's Symphony, Ernst
 >  Bloch's Helvetia and two 5,000 dollar awards to Bennett's pieces.
 >
 >  Despite their huge orchestral forces, Bennett's prizewinners were
 >  then published. Abraham Lincoln was first performed by Stokowski and
 >  the Philadelphia Orchestra in October 1931, with a second performance
 >  given a fortnight later at the dedication of the Juilliard School's
 >  new auditorium. For this, Bennett wrote his own programme notes,
 >  drawn from below.
 >  ___________________________
 >
 >  Alec
 >
 >  At 11:19 AM 4/17/2006, Paul Charosh wrote:
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >In 1929, RCA Victor offered a prize of $25,000 for a new symphonic
 > work.
 >  >The
 >  >prize was divided among five composers.  Copland was  one; he received
 > $5,000
 >  >for his submission.
 >  >
 >  >How to find out  who were the other four recipients?  Also, who at
 > RCA/Victor
 >  >was in  charge of the competition?  Can one find out who were the
 > judges?
 >  >Can
 >  >one find out who submitted works?
 >  >
 >  >Paul Charosh
 >
 >  
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 >  Alec McLane
 >  Scores & Recordings/
 >    World Music Archives       Phone: (860) 685-3899
 >  Olin Library                       Fax: (860) 685-2661
 >  Wesleyan University          mailto:amclane@xxxxxxxxxxxx
 >  Middletown, CT  06459       
http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/srhome/srdir.htm
 >

 
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