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I *think* that this may be Frederick Piket's "Curtain Raiser to an American Play." The performance is likely the live one with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra from December 30, 1948.

Almost had the elusive all letter M title!

Thank you and congratulations for an exceptional effort in restoring this terrific performance! I'm a huge admirer of Leonard Warren and is this was one of only two of his Met broadcasts I've not heard before. The sound engineering and restoration work are superb. Including Milton Cross' announcements was a nice touch as well. I started listening to the Met's broadcasts in 1972 when he was still the voice of opera on the radio. Do you have any plans to work on the 1949 broadcast? It's available on You Tube and through some online stores with most of the same cast but the sound quality is not nearly as good as what you've been able to produce. Thanks again and best wishes from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

always suprising master

Great stuff!

Such a great performance with huge energy! 💖 Thank you for sharing.

Simplemente perfecto,una clase magistral con una obra que podría considerarse menor,pero con Mozart no se juega,

Maravilloso,muchas gracias

Como siempre,nos sorprende ,mil gracias

A miilion thanks!

Thanks

This is the same performance released by Pristine Classical, PASC133 and remastered by Andrew Rose. Unfortunately yes, your copy is poor. Rose's source came from Stokowski scholar, Edward Johnson, from his personal collection. The Pristine Classical release sounds excellent.

You should contact Andrew Rose of Pristine Classical. He's a master at remastering old recordings. Then he could release them on his label. Assuming of course, that these performances still do not belong to the Minnesota Orchestra.

Another gem! de Sabata was such an amazing conductor and the orchestra is on fire! Many thanks.

Great performance in excellent sound! Thank you.

Very much looking forward to more Dorati live recordings - they'll be added to the Dorati Society huge discography of over 1000 entries! Our book is called 'Antal Dorati and his Recorded Legacy'. Regards, Richard

Remarkably beautiful

Concert was likely on July 16th, 1948 in Northrup Auditorium. Pianist was Dr. Paul Oberg, who was chairman of the U MN music dept. More info on Oberg: "Paul Mathews Oberg was born in Center City, Minnesota on April 14, 1904. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1925. (1) From 1926-1928, he was a fellow at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City and earned a master's degree (1938) and Ph.D. (1944) from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Oberg was a staff pianist for WCCO radio (1925-1933), instructor at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN (1927-1928), professor at the University of Wichita (1933-1942), and was a pianist and organist for the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. In 1942, Dr. Oberg joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Music. (2) Oberg served as chairman of the department until 1965, and continued teaching until his retirement from the University in 1972 as Professor Emeritus of Music. (3) Paul Oberg died in November 1988."

Mitropoulos fue uno de los grandes,la sexta sinfonia la conocí de niño en un lp dirigida por èl,muchas gracias

Just a bit about Thelma Hunter gleaned from newspaper archives: Thelma Hunter (ca. 1925-2015), daughter of Norwegian choir director Anders Emile (prof at Hunter College). She studied at Cornell with Egon Petri and at Eastman with Cecile Genhart. Soloed with the New York Symphony in 1941 on "Norway Day" in honor of visiting Norwegian royal family. Married a surgeon, moved to Minneapolis from New York in 1947, began to teach at the University of Minnesota. She had a number of children - not sure if there's a way to contact them, but I'm sure they would be very pleased to hear the recordings you've dug up!

Wonderful work as always! Thanks for sharing!

Un gran violinista,técnica,sensibilidad y sonido memorables

an outstanding performance! and his sound so full of sunshine in the 2nd movement makes it pure joy. This is a quality only Francescatti had in his playing. Which other violinist has ever delivered the arpeggios in the 3rd movement with such security in a live performance?

Was this transcribed from an LP? The equalization is very uneven, with lots of rumble. Great performance, sorry it is marred. Sounds like what I used to record from a radio speaker via microphone, onto my Sony Tapecorder in the early 60s. Thanks for the effort, though

Maravilloso,grandes intérpretes,mil gracias

An amazing find and detailed analysis, as always. Thank you once more. Just a question: I know the NYP archive website (also included in your description), but I have no idea about "NY Philharmonic radio archive" - could you help us on this please? Thank you again.

This is great stuff! We at the Dorati Society would be interested to offer CD versions of the Young People's Concerts with liners notes and would be grateful for your blessing in this project. Best regards, Richard

SUPER FANTASTIC!!!! Many thanks! Do you have the Bach and Carpenter pieces that complete the concert?

Great, thank you for putting it on and indeed really improved the sound of the recording! I have never heard a better Mendelssohn concerto performance by Elman. I prefer this one to both of his studio recordings. I am in general a big Elman fan, but I was never entirely happy with his Mendelssohn interpretations. This is the one that has everything and shows what a great Mendelssohn performance he could give. Nothing is overdone, perfect speed and it shows him in violinistic top form. What a great spirit in the slow movement! If you have other Elman performances in your collection, I'd love to hear them.

Amazing recording and composition. An important addition to Mitropoulos legacy. Really grateful.

According to a contemporary reviews of this Friday night Minneapolis Symphony concert on January 14, 1949, Arthur Sheppard was then a professor at Western Reserve University in Chicago and was present at Northrop Auditorium that night to take a bow. The Sheppard work was the opening piece on the concert, which also included soloist Zino Francescatti performing Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 and the Saint-Saens "Rondo Capriccio" as an encore. The program also included Rabaud's "Nocturnal Procession" tone poem, and the "Rhenish" Symphony No. 3 of Robert Schumann.

Fantastic sound quality! Terrific to have this piece preserved for posterity. I assume that’s Louis Krasner, concertmaster, on those delightful fiddling lines.

FYI I've learned from later reels than this that Mr. Marchant did not record reels like this in the radio station, but rather at tapped directly from the line at Northrup Auditorium that went to the radio station. So essentially he was recording these live at the auditorium. Pretty cool.

Thanks for your effort in making available this exciting performance, which has some interesting dynamics in the development of the opening movement. It apparently was not a live performance.

Thank you again. An amazing document once more.

My dad had one like this one I was a young kid I can remember him playing George Jones on it. Under it was a record player and a 8 track deck then a big receiver. The speakers were taller than me. I was probably 4 or 5 in the early 70s.

This work seems to have disappeared off the "radar" from current concert performances. Ver perplexing.

This is indeed the Minneapolis Symphony's October 24, 1947, Friday night 8:30 p.m. subscription concert broadcast live on KUOM, the University of Minnesota's AM radio station. Back then, the Symphony only performed each regular evening subscription concert once. The concert opened with the Beethoven Overture, followed by the Robert Schumann Symphony No. 2, and, after intermission, the Symphony played Wagner's Act I Prelude to "Lohengrin" and the concert ended with the local premiere of Bartok's "Dance Suite" (the Marchant recording of this piece also was posted by you previously -- thanks!). 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 this opening concert of the Symphony's 1947/48 season (as the announcer mentions, they petition for and received special permission from the FCC to do so); 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 also received special permission from James Petrillo, the powerful national head of the American Musicians Union to do all this; and, finally, rather amusingly, the 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 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 offered live 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 TH-cam site.

great. conductor. fine person

I spent some time with Mr. Marchant's surviving daughter last week and she told me her family and especially her father were good friends with Mitropoulos and that he was a lovely person.

Its "cadenza", not "credenza" which is a piece of furniture.

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."