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A vintage reel to reel archiving project: In 2024 a dear family friend passed away. Her father - Reynolds Marchant - spent decades working for 3M in the magnetic audio tape division from the 1930s to the early 1970s. He left her hundreds of tapes dated from the 1940s through the 1960s. One of his roles in the audio tape division was to test out the tape and devices in various settings. I have the honor of being the caretaker of these recordings to help uncover her family history. I also have some recordings from her late husband of music and theater performances in the 1970s in Detroit, Michigan.
My intention is to explore these recordings and share them with youtube to help create a record of this body of work + get some help crowdsourcing information where there is little available with the recording.
In honor of Susan Britton, Don Britton, and Reynolds Marchant.
My intention is to explore these recordings and share them with youtube to help create a record of this body of work + get some help crowdsourcing information where there is little available with the recording.
In honor of Susan Britton, Don Britton, and Reynolds Marchant.
Mitropoulos conducts Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser 1947
Today I present the earliest recording I’ve found in the archive so far - Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting the Minneapolis Symphony in performance of Richard Wagner’s Overture to Tannhäuser on February 2nd, 1947.
Because this recording is so early, there are a few technical challenges. One - it is pretty noisy, but still very listenable. The noise is increased because I adjusted the dynamics a bit to boost the quieter parts. If this were a higher quality recording with a lower signal to noise ratio I wouldn’t do this (especially for classical music) but it was needed here.
Two - at the start there is some stretching of the tape that causes a few small pitch changes before it settles down. I ...
Because this recording is so early, there are a few technical challenges. One - it is pretty noisy, but still very listenable. The noise is increased because I adjusted the dynamics a bit to boost the quieter parts. If this were a higher quality recording with a lower signal to noise ratio I wouldn’t do this (especially for classical music) but it was needed here.
Two - at the start there is some stretching of the tape that causes a few small pitch changes before it settles down. I ...
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Arrau plays Beethoven in 1947: Piano Sonata No. 32
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Always happy to have a bit more of Chilean master pianist Claudio Arrau on the channel. Here we have a partial performance of Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111. The complete first movement is here, but unfortunately only about half of the second movement. However, the quality is so good (much better than the Mozart Fantasy posted earlier) it’s very much worth sharing. Thanks again to Arra...
LOST RECORDING: Claudio Arrau plays Mozart's Fantasy in C Minor
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Chilean master pianist Claudio Arrau performs Mozart’s Fantasy in C Minor, KV 396. Thanks to channel subscriber and mega Arrau fan @jagareco I've been told this recording doesn’t exist ANYWHERE else! How exciting! No date was on the reel, but from poking around some Arrau websites I found an entry that matches words spoken by the radio announcer (that are not in this RUclips video). Likely Nove...
EXCLUSIVE: Rigoletto Met Opera 1950 Warren, Munsel, Peerce, Lipton, Perlea
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Wow - what a find in the archive: a COMPLETE recording of the March 4th, 1950 performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto. The main exciting cast consist of Leonard Warren as Rigoletto, Patrice Munsel as Gilda, Jan Peerce as the Duke of Mantua, and Martha Lipton as Maddalena. Jonel Perlea conducts. The rest of the cast is listed here: archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/record.jsp?dockey=0369508...
WOW: De Sabata NY Philharmonic Pines of Rome 1950
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An exciting performance of Ottorino Respighi’s Pines of Rome by the NY Philharmonic Orchestra on March 12th, 1950. Victor de Sabata conducts. A nearly sonically perfect recording to boot - wow! I was thrilled to see the title Pines of Rome written in faded pencil on the reel to reel box as I picked it off the shelf- it was my favorite part of Fantasia 2000, and after seeing that movie I sought ...
Minneapolis Symphony 1947 Bizet’s Children’s Games
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Assistant conductor for the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Yves Chardon conducts the Symphony in a performance of Georges Bizet’s Children’s Games (Jeux d'enfants) on December 2nd, 1947. This performance was part of a Young Person’s Concert with Northrup Auditorium at the University of Minnesota fully packed with kids from the twin cities area. It was broadcast on KUOM, the University’s radio s...
INSIDER VIEW 1948: Mitropoulos rehearsing James Aliferis No 1
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Pretty unique find in the archive - a rehearsal of Dimitri Mitropoulos working the Minneapolis Symphony through a challenging modern piece by James Aliferis (Symphony #1) on March 19th, 1948. Aliferis was a student in 1941, with Leonard Bernstein and Lukas Foss, in Serge Koussevitsky's first conducting class at the Berkshire Music Center. I can find little else about Aliferis or this symphony s...
TIME CAPSULE: Howard K Smith CBS News Report December 1947
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CBS Radio American Journalist reports from London on the state of the world in 1947. This was obviously shortly after the end of World War II, the very start of the Cold War, and much of the world going through huge changes. The Marshall Plan was top of mind, as was the splitting of Germany and how it will be managed. Also talk of the spread of communism. As we heard in the “Mid Century” progra...
George Szell/NY Philharmonic: Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony 1947
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George Szell conducts the NY Philharmonic in performance of Schubert’s Symphony in B minor, D.759, aka Unfinished Symphony on December 21st, 1947. Broadcast by CBS, simulcast to WCCO Minnesota where Reynolds Marchant recorded it on tape. I wish the quality of this recording was better - but given I cannot find this performance anywhere on the internet I figured it would be worth sharing anyway....
Mitropoulos Conducts Dvořák’s Carnival Overture 1948
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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Antonín Dvořák’s Carnival Overture, part of a "Nature, Life and Love" trilogy of overtures. This performance was on December 18th, 1948. This appears to be recorded on the same day as this performance: ruclips.net/video/_31g5AXIZe8/видео.html Like that piece, there is no applause at the end - it appears there is...
WILD! Four Pianos(!) - First Piano Quartet play Chopin, Weber, Liszt
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The First Piano Quartet was a touring group of four pianists who brought their own Steinway pianos with them. Can you imagine towing four pianos around with you? This performance was recorded on October 28th, 1947 in St. Paul, Minnesota. I have two other First Piano Quartet videos, so I made a playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLhut5IVLHxGaRT87zgmrTFGOqIZ8yu_z5 Here is the program: 1) Invitation to the D...
Claudio Arrau performs Mozart’s Rondo in D Major 1949
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On March 19th, 1949 the great Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau joined a Young People’s Concert put on by the Minneapolis Symphony. This was one of the last concerts Dimitri Mitropoulos was involved with before he left for the NY Philharmonic. The announcer is George Grim, a local Minnesota journalist and symphony booster. He talks about Arrau playing 4 pieces - but alas this tape only has the Moza...
Mitropoulos conducts Bartók’s Dance Suite Minneapolis Symphony 1947
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Mitropoulos conducts the Minneapolis Symphony in performance of Béla Bartók’s Dance Suite for Orchestra. This is a premier of the piece for the Minneapolis Symphony. I don’t have an exact date for the performance, but my guess would be late October or early November of 1947. On one of the reel boxes it said 45th Season (and also the announcer says it at the end of the recording) and by my calcu...
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: Mitropoulos 1949
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A performance of Benjamin Britten’s The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos on January 20th, 1949. This was part of a Young People’s concert that was held over several days annually in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The narrator is unknown - do you know who this is? There was a drop out/glitch in the tape around 14:38 and anoth...
Handel Concerto No 6, Landowska, Stokowski NY Philharmonic 1949
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Handel Concerto No 6, Landowska, Stokowski NY Philharmonic 1949
Poulenc Pastoral Concerto, Landowska, Stokowski NY Philharmonic 1949
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Poulenc Pastoral Concerto, Landowska, Stokowski NY Philharmonic 1949
Mozart’s Haffner Symphony, Stokowski & NY Philharmonic 1949
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Mozart’s Haffner Symphony, Stokowski & NY Philharmonic 1949
1950 Rudolf Serkin performs Beethoven’s Concerto No 4 Mitropoulos NY Philharmonic
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1950 Rudolf Serkin performs Beethoven’s Concerto No 4 Mitropoulos NY Philharmonic
Beethoven Eroica Minneapolis Symphony Mitropoulos 1948 - COMPLETE
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Beethoven Eroica Minneapolis Symphony Mitropoulos 1948 - COMPLETE
Beethoven Missa Solemnis 5th Movement Boston Symphony 1948 Woodworth
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Beethoven Missa Solemnis 5th Movement Boston Symphony 1948 Woodworth
Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Charles Münch 1949 NY Philharmonic
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Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Charles Münch 1949 NY Philharmonic
Tchaikovsky’s Polonaise from Eugene Onegin - Mitropoulos 1948
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Tchaikovsky’s Polonaise from Eugene Onegin - Mitropoulos 1948
Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night's Dream Nocturne Mitropoulos 1948
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Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night's Dream Nocturne Mitropoulos 1948
Mitropoulos 1948 Beethoven Eroica Symphony 1st Movement - Minneapolis Symphony
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Mitropoulos 1948 Beethoven Eroica Symphony 1st Movement - Minneapolis Symphony
FOUR PIANOS Live! First Piano Quartet 1947
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FOUR PIANOS Live! First Piano Quartet 1947
1949 Ravel Fragments Daphnis et Chloé Suite 1 - Münch & NY Philharmonic
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1949 Ravel Fragments Daphnis et Chloé Suite 1 - Münch & NY Philharmonic
Claudio Arrau - Mozart Sonata in D Major Mystery Performance
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Claudio Arrau - Mozart Sonata in D Major Mystery Performance
Romanian Rhapsody - Enesco, Stokowski NY Philharmonic 1949
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Romanian Rhapsody - Enesco, Stokowski NY Philharmonic 1949
Piston String Quartet No. 2 - Budapest String Quartet
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Piston String Quartet No. 2 - Budapest String Quartet
The Golden Cockerel, Rimsky-Korsakov Doráti/Minneapolis Symphony 1951
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The Golden Cockerel, Rimsky-Korsakov Doráti/Minneapolis Symphony 1951
This from the 1992 NY Times obit for James Aliferis: "Mr. Aliferis was a student in 1941, with Leonard Bernstein and Lukas Foss, in Serge Koussevitsky's first conducting class at the Berkshire Music Center. From 1946 to 1958 he taught at the University of Minnesota, was the permanent guest conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, served as Paul Hindemith's assistant at Tanglewood and was the conductor of the International Society of Contemporary Music. His First Symphony received its premiere with Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting the Minneapolis orchestra. He was the president of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston from 1958 to 1962. He was the author of the Aliferis Music Achievement Tests, the country's only standardized college-level musicianship examinations. In the late 1960's, he served as director of choral music for the city of Philadelphia and led his own professional chorus, the James Aliferis Singers." The New England Conservatory's website adds this earlier background info: "James Aliferis was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. As a child, he studied piano and violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Aliferis received both his bachelor’s degree (B.S., 1936) and master’s degree (M.A., 1939) from Western Reserve University. At Western Reserve, Aliferis studied theory, counterpoint, and fugue with Melville Smith, and composition and music history with Arthur Shepherd. In 1939, he received a Ranney Fellowship for further study in Europe."
Mitropoulos and the Minneapolis Symphony did performed this Rabaud piece on their Friday night subscription concert at Northrop Auditorium on January 14, 1949, but there is no record of that concert being broadcast on the radio in Minneapolis. While it's possible that for some reason Marchant recorded this live at Northrop using KUOM's microphones, it seems more likely this tape might be instead his off-air recording of the December 11, 1949, Sunday afternoon broadcast of the New York Philharmonic since Mitropoulos conducted the same work on that date at Carnegie Hall. Just a guess.
Mitropoulos was away conducting the New York Philharmonic for four weeks in late November/early December that year, and so, as Carlo Fisher says, it is Chardon conducting. Yves Chardon was the orchestra's French-born principal cellist and assistant conductor of the orchestra back then. The "Mr. Fitch" mentioned by Fisher was Ray Fitch, a double-bassist with the orchestra who also played the alto saxophone for a performance of Debussy's "Rhapsody" on the same program.
In 1944 NBC began a series of national broadcasts highlighting American orchestras. The program was called “The Orchestra of the Nation” and by 1948 had showcased forty-two different ensembles. These were specially-arranged radio concerts with no audience present. The Minneapolis Symphony and Dimitri Mitropoulos were heard on “Orchestra of the Nation” three times: twice in 1947, and then on this Saturday, December 18, 1948, broadcast that included Dvorak's "Carnival" Overture and Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony.
One of the unusual things about the Minneapolis Symphony's Young People's Concerts back then was that sometimes they included solo or chamber music performances by the soloists the Symphony brought in to appear on their Friday evening subscriptions concerts. In this case, it was Claudio Arrau performing four solo piano selections for school kids on Thursday afternoon, and then the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 for adults on the following Friday evening. That March 20, 1949 Friday night subscription concert was, indeed, Mitropoulos's very last Northrop Auditorium subscription concert with the Minneapolis Symphony. The Chopin Piano Concerto on the program was preceded by Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" Overture and followed by Mahler's Symphony No. 1. But the March 20, 1949, concert at Northrop wasn't Mitropoulos's VERY last appearance with the Minneapolis Symphony, however: the next day he and the orchestra's musicians set off for their annual spring tour, a grueling marathon of 38 concerts in South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota (again), and finally Wisconsin, before returning home to Minnesota on April 24, 1949. Musicians were worked hard in those days!
This is pretty amazing, thank you for taking the time to share all these performances. Is there any more live Elman in the collection? He performed a ton of concerti in this period that he never otherwise recorded, it would be awesome to hear them if they exist. Thank you!
I might! I still have over 100 tapes to go through and each time I pick one up I learn what's on there. Stay tuned :)
P.S. Mr. Grimm's voice on this tape sounds a bit too high-pitched (compare it to his voice in the Britten selection posted elsewhere on this RUclips channel). Maybe this tape needs to be pitch adjusted down a bit?
This Marchant recording was made during the January 20, 1949 KUOM broadcast of a Thursday afternoon Minneapolis Symphony "Young People's Concert." The narrator voice is that of Paul Brissey, a violinist with the orchestra who also served as the host of MSO Young People's concerts under Dorati the following season (Dorati gave up trying to be both the host and conductor of these Young People's Concerts after a few valiant, but not always successful, attempts that are documented on your RUclips channel). Brissey also had a side career as a radio announcer and host of summertime classical pops broadcasts on WTCN in the early 1950s.
Awesome to know who it is! Where did you find that information?
@@MarchantTapeArchive Paul Brissey is credited in both the Minnesota Orchestra's internal database as the narrator for many of performances of this Britten piece and other works for narrator and orchestra like Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" starting early in 1949 and he continued in that role well into the 1980s. He is also mentioned in vintage Minneapolis newspaper reviews and ads.
This Marchant recording was made during the March 17, 1949 KUOM broadcast of a Thursday afternoon Minneapolis Symphony "Young People's Concert." Also on the program that afternoon was the Mendelssohn "Finga'ls Cave" and solo piano Mozart Rondo (with Claudio Arrau) also recorded by Mr. Marchant and posted on your RUclips channel. Thank you!
Actually, this recording made during the October 27, 1948 KUOM live broadcast from the Saint Paul Municipal Auditorium of a Wednesday afternoon "Young People's Concert" was conducted by Yves Chardon, not Dimitri Mitropoulos. The French horn soloist mentioned was Waldemar C. Linder, the principal horn of the Symphony for many years. Mitropoulos was at Carnegie Hall conducting the New York Philharmonic in October of 1948. Fritz Reiner was the guest conductor of that week's Friday night Minneapolis Symphony subscription concert. Yves Chardon was the principal cellist of the Minneapolis Symphony then, and also its assistant conductor. He was, like Mitropoulos, also a composer. Chardon was born in France, but came to the U.S. in 1929, joined the Boston Symphony under Koussevitzky, occasionally conducted the Boston Pops, and left Boston for Minneapolis because he was offered both the first chair position with the Minneapolis Symphony and the tempting offer of an assistant conductor position as well. When Mitropoulos left in 1949, Chardon returned to France for a time to become the full-time conductor of an orchestra there, before returning to the U.S. where formed the Florida Symphony in Orlando, and finally moved on to play as the principal cellist for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for 25 years. He then retired to New Hampshire and died at the age of 97 in 2002. I doubt the mystery announcer heard here is Chardon himself, however, since, according to a 2001 NY Times article, Chardon was "the prototype of a typical Parisian (perpetual Gauloise [cigarette] and an accent like Charles Boyer."
Would love to see the documentation on Chardon vs Mitropoulos - thanks!
Actually, this recording made during the October 27, 1948 KUOM live broadcast from the old St. Paul Auditorium of a Wednesday afternoon "Young People's Concert" was conducted by Yves Chardon, not Dimitri Mitropoulos. Yves Chardon was the principal cellist of the Minneapolis Symphony then, and also its assistant conductor. He was, like Mitropoulos, also a composer. Chardon was born in France, but came to the U.S. in 1929, joined the Boston Symphony under Koussevitzky, occasionally conducted the Boston Pops, and left Boston for Minneapolis because he was offered both the first chair position with the Minneapolis Symphony and the tempting offer of an assistant conductor position as well. When Mitropoulos left in 1949, Chardon returned to France for a time to become the full-time conductor of an orchestra there for a time, before returning to the U.S. where formed the Florida Symphony in Orlando, and finally moved on to play as the principal cellist for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for 25 years. He then retired to New Hampshire and died at the age of 97 in 2002. I doubt the voice heard here is Chardon himself, however, since, according to a 2001 NY Times article, Chardon was "the prototype of a typical Parisian (perpetual Gauloise [cigarette] and an accent like Charles Boyer."
Certainly possible it was Chardon and not Mitropoulos - but where did you find that documentation before I update the description? Mitropoulos was written on the reel box.
Also the announcer is Carlo Fisher - a cellist with the orchestra who acted in all kinds of roles with the Symphony and started playing with them back in 1902 (!). I have updated the description.
@@MarchantTapeArchive I have access to the Minnesota Orchestra's own data base and Chardon was listed at the conductor for that performance. Their listing may be wrong, of course, but all of your other Mitropoulos postings match both the Orchestra's own database and contemporary radio listings for KUOM in vintage newspapers. I will try to verify this Chardon/Mitropoulos question further if I can track down an actual program for that particular Young People's concert elsewhere. This may take a while. In any case, it's just as exciting (and important) to have an audio souvenir of Chardon conducting the MSO as Mitropoulos, IMHO.
@@johnmichel3676 I'd love to have access to that database as well - if you don't mind please connect with me on instagram (send me a DM): instagram.com/visitingdiplomats Thanks!
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Absolutely magnificent - thank you!
Notice the VU meter is performing healthily on this one! Wonder why the difference -- as mentioned before, some of your postings show the VU meter barely moving. Could it be due to different tape formulations? Or was the tape machine used to record some of them showing an inaccurate signal strength? I remember my first tape recorder had a very primitive indicator, like a blinking eye. --- And again, thank you for this incandescent performance!!!
The real answers are lost to time, but my money is on the really early tape decks (e.g. the Brush Soundmirror devices) recorded very quietly. Perhaps that was by design to not oversaturate the tapes - perhaps the tape got better, and the amplification got better and they realized they could print it more loudly. My Pioneer deck has two VU meter settings and I almost never take it off +6db because these old reels are SO quiet.
@@MarchantTapeArchive And fortunately, most of the signal is still above the noise level! Probably the radio broadcasts used compression to keep the dynamic range below 40 decibels or so.
Wonderful job ! Thanks for all the dedication and job you do to publish in the most acurate way these historic documents.
Fascinating, indeed. Thank you.
Fabulous. Thank you, again.
Beyond words, speechless.
So glad you liked it! It's one of my favorite things I've posted on the channel so far (Pines of Rome probably being my fav!).
Mitropoulos loved romantic Brahms! Thank you. ruclips.net/video/0kFp0-dvYBs/видео.html
Thank you very much. A treasure.
It's hard to believe, but four years in a row the University of Minnesota radio station KUOM offered live broadcasts of Minneapolis Symphony dress rehearsal performances of some of the "difficult" new repertory that Dimitri Mitropoulos programmed with the orchestra. The idea was these Thursday afternoon broadcasts would offer a preview hearing for those attending the Friday night subscription concert performances of these new works the following day, so they actually would be hearing these works for the SECOND time when they were performed at Northrop Auditorium before a live audience. In 1945, KUOM broadcast the Thursday afternoon dress rehearsal of the Schoenberg Violin Concerto (also with Krasner as soloist); in 1946, it was the world premiere of Arthur Schnabel's Symphony (Schnabel was in attendance and played a Beethoven Piano Concerto on the second half of that concert); and in 1947, it was the world premiere performance of the Roger Sessions Violin Concerto. These three Thursday afternoon dress rehearsal performances were broadcast without interruption, and in the case of the 1947 broadcast, Sessions himself offered some comments to the radio audience about his new work. A recording of the 1946 Schnabel Symphony dress rehearsal broadcast exists, and has been posted on another RUclips channel (but it survives in only so-so sound, as it was recorded on disc, not tape), but I am thrilled beyond belief that this Marchant tape recording of the 1947 Sessions rehearsal preview performance has surfaced. I have been trying to hunt this recording down for several years now, but since it did not exist in the official Sessions or Krasner archives, I assumed it was lost (or never made). I am thrilled you have uncovered this and posted it here. Thank you! P.S. the 1948 KUOM live rehearsal broadcast with Mitropoulos was a rehearsal of the Symphony No. 1 of James Aliferis, including cues from Mitropoulos -- and that one (also recorded by Mr. Marchant and posted on this RUclips channel) took place on the same Friday morning as the evening subscription concert!
What a radio station! I guess it was KUOM's close relationship with the symphony that helped. I wonder if Mitropoulos drove part of it - really fascinating idea to "prepare" listeners for the material since it was so new and far away from the typical repertoire. I doubt it (too early), but I really hope I might have a better fidelity Schnabel recording on a tape I haven't listened to yet! Thanks so much for listening!
Minneapolis newspapers from November 1947 confirm this performance took place on November 18, 1947, at Northrop Auditorium as part of the University of Minnesota's new "Master Piano" series. KUOM, the University's radio station normally signed off back then at 6 p.m., and contemporary newspaper radio listings show they did, indeed "sign off" at 6 p.m., but then signed back on at 8:30 p.m. just for this live broadcast! The Mozart Fantasy in C Minor was the opening work on the first half of program, followed by Beethoven's "Eroica" Variations, then Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32; on the second half Mozart's D Major Sonata and Beethoven's Piano Sonata No, 26 ("Les Adieux").
Excellent sleuthing! I often forget to search the newspaper archives. What site did you use to find it? By now you have probably discovered that I also posted the Mozart and Beethoven's Sonata #32 on the channel - both from that same night. One of my other subscribers tells me that Arrau playing Sonata #32 has never been recorded before. Very exciting.
Minneapolis newspapers from November 1947 confirm this performance took place on November 18, 1947, at Northrop Auditorium as part of the University of Minnesota's new "Master Piano" series. KUOM, the University's radio station, normally signed off back then at 6 p.m., and contemporary newspaper radio listings show they did, indeed "sign off" at 6 p.m., but then signed back on at 8:30 p.m. just for this live broadcast! The Mozart Fantasy in C Minor was the opening work on the first half of program, followed by Beethoven's "Eroica" Variations, then Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32; on the second half Mozart's D Major Sonata and Beethoven's Piano Sonata No, 26 ("Les Adieux").
Minneapolis newspapers from November 1947 confirm this performance took place on November 18, 1947, at Northrop Auditorium as part of the University of Minnesota's new "Master Piano" series. KUOM, the University's radio station, normally signed off back then at 6 p.m., and contemporary newspaper radio listings show they did, indeed "sign off" at 6 p.m., but then signed back on at 8:30 p.m. just for this live broadcast! The Mozart Fantasy in C Minor was the opening work on the first half of program, followed by Beethoven's "Eroica" Variations, then Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32; on the second half Mozart's D Major Sonata and Beethoven's Piano Sonata No, 26 ("Les Adieux").
Minneapolis newspapers from November 1947 confirm this performance took place on November 18, 1947, at Northrop Auditorium as part of the University of Minnesota's new "Master Piano" series. KUOM, the University's radio station, normally signed off back then at 6 p.m., and contemporary newspaper radio listings show they did, indeed "sign off" at 6 p.m., but then signed back on at 8:30 p.m. just for this live broadcast! The Mozart Fantasy in C Minor was the opening work on the first half of program, followed by Beethoven's "Eroica" Variations, then Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32; on the second half Mozart's D Major Sonata and Beethoven's Piano Sonata No, 26 ("Les Adieux").
This performance is from the live March 16, 1950, KUOM (the UOM stands for "University of Minnesota") broadcast of the Thursday afternoon Minneapolis Symphony "Young People's Concert" from Northrop Auditorium on the University of Minnesota campus. The program also included the "Merry Wives of Winsor" Overture by Nicolai -- a selection also recorded by Mr. Marchant and posted as well (thank you! thank you!) on this Marchant Project RUclips channel. FYI the 1949/50 season was Antal Dorati's first as the new conductor/music director of the Minneapolis Symphony, following the departure of Dimitri Mitropoulos, who had been with the orchestra since their 1937/38 season, but in 1949 left the Minneapolis Symphony for the New York Philharmonic.
Isn't it great to hear Dorati's voice? He sure had HUGE shoes to fill.
This performance is from the live March 16, 1950, KUOM (the UOM stands for "University of Minnesota") broadcast of the Thursday afternoon Minneapolis Symphony "Young People's Concert" from Northrop Auditorium on the University of Minnesota campus. The program also included the "Forest Murmurs" from Wagner's opera "Siegfried" -- a selection also recorded by Mr. Marchant and posted as well (thank you! thank you!) on this Marchant Project RUclips channel. FYI the 1949/50 season was Antal Dorati's first as the new conductor/music director of the Minneapolis Symphony, following the departure of Dimitri Mitropoulos, who had been with the orchestra since their 1937/38 season, but in 1949 left the Minneapolis Symphony for the New York Philharmonic.
This recording was made during KUOM's live broadcast of the Minneapolis Symphony's Tuesday afternoon Young People's Concert on March 13, 1951. Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" was the opening work on the program, followed by the finale of Schubert's Fifth Symphony; then three French dances by Gretry were followed by the three Spanish dances of de Falla; and the concert closed with these two orchestral excerpts from the Rimsky-Korsakov opera "The Golden Cockerel." Mr. Marchant apparently recorded the whole concert -- and (thank you! thank you!) all the selections are posted on this Marchant Project RUclips channel.
This recording was made during KUOM's live broadcast of the Minneapolis Symphony's Tuesday afternoon Young People's Concert on March 13, 1951. Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" was the opening work on the program, followed by the finale of Schubert's Fifth Symphony; then the three French dances by Gretry were followed by three Spanish dances of de Falla; and the concert closed with two orchestral excerpts from the Rimsky-Kosakov opera "The Golden Cockerel." Mr. Marchant apparently recorded the whole concert -- and (thank you! thank you!) all the selections are posted on this Marchant Project RUclips channel.
This recording was made during KUOM's live broadcast of the Minneapolis Symphony's Tuesday afternoon Young People's Concert on March 13, 1951. Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" was the opening work on the program, followed by the finale of Schubert's Fifth Symphony; then three French dances by Gretry were followed by these three Spanish dances of de Falla; and the concert closed with two orchestral excerpts from the Rimsky-Korsakov opera "The Golden Cockerel." Mr. Marchant apparently recorded the whole concert -- and (thank you! thank you!) all the selections are posted on this Marchant Project RUclips channel.
This recording was made during KUOM's live broadcast of the Minneapolis Symphony's Tuesday afternoon Young People's Concert on March 13, 1951. Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" was the opening work on the program, followed by the finale of Schubert's Fifth Symphony; then three French dances by Gretry were followed by the three Spanish dances of de Falla; and the concert closed with two orchestral excerpts from the Rimsky-Korsakov opera "The Golden Cockerel." Mr. Marchant apparently recorded the whole concert -- and (thank you! thank you!) all the selections are posted on this Marchant Project RUclips channel.
This recording was made during KUOM's live broadcast of the Minneapolis Symphony's Tuesday afternoon Young People's Concert on March 13, 1951. The Mendelssohn was the opening work on the program, followed by the finale of Schubert's Fifth Symphony; then three French dances by Gretry were followed by the three Spanish dances of de Falla; and the concert closed with two orchestral excerpts from the Rimsky-Korsakov opera "The Golden Cockerel." Mr. Marchant apparently recorded the whole concert -- and (thank you! thank you!) all the selections are posted on this Marchant Project RUclips channel.
This Marchant recording is very unusual for several reasons: first, the University of Minnesota radio station KUOM usually signed off at 6 p.m. which it did on Friday, October 24, 1947 -- but then signed back on at 8:30 p.m. in order to broadcast live the opening concert of the Minneapolis Symphony's 1947/48 season; second, the complete concert was recorded (obviously on 3M tape and probably by Mr. Marchant himself) and then the copies of the tapes were sent by airplane from the Minneapolis airport to Paris, France for a delayed broadcast on the French radio system (!!!); third the newspapers reported the symphony and KUOM received special permission from James Petrillo, the powerful national head of the American Musicians Union to do all this; and, finally rather amusingly, the local Minneapolis newspapers noted extra police would be directing traffic at the University of Minnesota on October 24, 1947, since the same time the Minneapolis Symphony was playing at Northrop Auditorium, elsewhere on the University's campus the Minnesota Gopher "B" football team was playing a visiting team from the Duluth Junior College. FYI in the 1940s KUOM broadcast live a few Minneapolis Symphony c. 80-minute "Twilight" Concerts which took place at 4 p.m. on Sunday afternoons (and so before KUOM usually signed off), but otherwise KUOM only broadcast the Minneapolis Symphony's Young People's Concerts (which took place weekday afternoons) and a handful of Thursday afternoon symphony dress rehearsal performances -- complete and uninterrupted-- of "difficult" new works by composers like Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schnabel, and Roger Sessions to "prepare" audiences for hearing these pieces on the Friday evening concerts at Northrop. Several Marchant recordings of both KUOM broadcasts of Young People's Concerts and two of their dress rehearsals broadcasts are posted (thank you! thank you!) on this RUclips site.
Fascinating French connection! Also Yves Chardon the cellist and assistant conductor under Mitropoulos was French. Also - I have a reel of a piece by Robert Casadesus that was written for Yves as a soloist. It is an incomplete recording and I can't even find the sheet music for it to try to figure out what part I have. But - amazingly - I am in contact with Casadesus' daughter who is working with me to figure out what I have. More updates on this soon I hope!
Yes, it's always good to have more Arrau.
Very interesting. We hear masterly piano playing, but we also hear that Arrau was not THAT GREAT Beethoven interpreter he later became . Already the Columbia recordings from the fifties showed a very different Arrau .
I've updated the date on this reel based on some sleuthing by @jagareco - seems like the same concert as ruclips.net/video/tJquevLzS8k/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/i6fbccVf4Hc/видео.html
One of the greatest performances of this overture I ever heard. I think, this recording gave Mitropoulos promotion for the New York Philharmonic Music Director position.
Wow you think so? Very cool. And I agree - it's fantastic :)
The only Eroica by Mitropoulos known to date, was with the New York Philharmonic live in Athens on October 2. 1955. An invaluable treasure. Please make more Mitropoulos broadcasts available. Thank you a million times .
Thanks for listening! Lots more Mitropoulos coming. Be sure to check out all my other recordings of his here: ruclips.net/video/08igbAjX-l4/видео.html
Notable,muchas gracias
Thank you very much.
This is known as the Overture to Tannhauser (Dresden version), not the Pilgrims Chorus.
Ah yes you are right. I was going with what was on the box and didn’t check. Thank you!
Gracias 🙏
They did this in the newspapers in the 1920s. Example: Ed Swans of 19355 1st Rd, Portland, California struck a pedestrian and didn't stop to check on the victim according to reports.
@@dohc16vturbo4g63 very trusting I guess?
@@MarchantTapeArchive me personally? No. 1920s, maybe. I was just stating that this was a common thing back in that time.
Maravilloso,gracias por compartirlo con nosotros
Incredible find
Thanks for listening!
WOW~!
These were done in well-known orchestrations by Felix Mottl, nicely expanded for a 19th century orchestra.
Basil Rathbone was a great actor who perfectly manage on screen any character he created.
Astonishingly, it appears for four years in a row, starting in 1945, the University of Minnesota’s "educational" radio station KUOM negotiated the rights to broadcast portions of the MSO’s afternoon final dress rehearsals which preceded their normal Friday evening subscription concerts, focusing on especially challenging scores programmed by Mitropoulos. These broadcasts were intended to offer those attending the Friday night concerts a “preview” audition of the complex new scores: Thursday, 29 November 1945: Schoenberg Violin Concerto (with Louis Krasner) Thursday, 12 December 1946: Arthur Schnabel Symphony Thursday, 13 November 1947: Roger Sessions Violin Concerto (with Louis Krasner) Friday, 19 March 1948: the James Aliferis Symphony heard here. The Schoenberg, Schnabel, and Sessions broadcasts were complete and uninterrupted, full "dress rehearsal" broadcasts, unlike the Aliferis rehearsal. Also, for some reason this live KUOM rehearsal broadcast occurred on the morning of the Friday night premiere performance of the new symphony, not the day before.
What an amazing thing to do for that community! Nothing quite like it now. Of course many more people were listening to symphonic music in the 40s. The great thing is that I have much if not all of these things on reels - see the Roger Sessions piece (the effective live debut) here: ruclips.net/video/s82YMgQaFOk/видео.html
I haven't found the Schoenberg or Schnabel rehearsals yet but I bet it's something I just haven't pulled off the shelf yet.
@@MarchantTapeArchive Well, by the mid 1940s commercial radio had become big business. Air time was increasingly valuable, so classical music on commercial radio stations became rarer and rarer -- unless some big corporation like American Rubber, Ford Motor Company, or Texaco was willing to become a deep pocketed sponsor for it. KUOM was an "educational" non-commercial university station, so part of its mission was to "educate" audiences about classical music in general, especially if it was "difficult" like many of the works Mitropoulos performed during his time in Minneapolis. NBC's "Orchestras of America" (the source of your Mitropoulos "Eroica" broadcast was a rare commercial exception). By the 1950s only a few major American symphony orchestras and the Metropolitan Opera still had national radio broadcasts. It wasn't until the creation of a national system of education TV and radio broadcasting stations was created in the 1970s that classical music was heard on a regular basis on FM stations across the country.
@@MarchantTapeArchive I doubt you will find the 1945 and 1946 Minneapolis Symphony rehearsal broadcasts on Marchant tape recordings, alas -- since they predate wide use of tape recording in the U.S. If the Schoenberg broadcast survives anywhere, it would be on KUOM transcription discs, like the Schnabel did.
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