The NBC Symphony Orchestra was a radio orchestra conceived by David Sarnoff, the president of the Radio Corporation of America, especially for the conductor Arturo Toscanini. The NBC Symphony performed weekly radio concert broadcasts with Toscanini and other conductors and served as house orchestra for the NBC network. The orchestra's first broadcast was on November 13, 1937 and it continued until disbanded in 1954. A new ensemble, independent of the network, called the Symphony of the Air, followed. It was made up of former members of the NBC Symphony Orchestra and performed from 1954 to 1963, particularly under Leopold Stokowski.
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Arturo Toscanini
Italian conductor (1867-1957)
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Leopold Stokowski
British conductor
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Charles Munch
French musician
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Jan Peerce
American opera singer
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Charles Gerhardt
American conductor
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
symphony orchestra in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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New York Philharmonic Orchestra
American symphony orchestra in New York, NY
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Artur Rodziński
Polish conductor
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Philadelphia Orchestra
American symphony orchestra in Philadelphia, PA
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Pierre Monteux
French conductor
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
American symphony orchestra in Boston, MA
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Nathaniel Shilkret
American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director
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Eugene Ormandy
Hungarian conductor and violinist
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Dimitri Mitropoulos
Greek conductor, pianist, and composer
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Erich Leinsdorf
American conductor
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Robert Shaw
American conductor, born 1916
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William Steinberg
American conductor
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Steven Richman
American conductor
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Ezio Pinza
Italian opera singer
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Jascha Heifetz
Lithuanian violinist
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Hans Kindler
American conductor and cellist (1892-1949)
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National Philharmonic Orchestra
British orchestra
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Victor de Sabata
Italian conductor and composer
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Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
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Arthur Fiedler
American conductor
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Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer
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Josef Pasternack
Polish conductor
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Frederick Stock
German composer
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Alan Shulman
American composer and cellist
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Leonard Warren
Operatic baritone
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Henry Mancini
American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flautist (1924-1994)
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Jussi Björling
Swedish tenor
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Malcolm Sargent
English conductor, organist and composer
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Alfredo Antonini
American conductor
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Columbia Symphony Orchestra
orchestra
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Anna Moffo
American opera singer, television personality, and dramatic actress