Karl Miller wrote:

>Were there many live performances of American Symphonic repertoire? If so,
>can you remember what and better yet...did anyone tape much of it?
>
>I have acquired a few BBC broadcasts of American Music.  The quality has
>ranged from a very shakey Schuman 6th to a wonderful Mennin 5th.

I've been trying to find some evidence of what was done, but I can't.
There was so much gathered into, what is known in broadcasting parlance
as, "the strand" that it seemed to just sail by.  I think they called the
strand "Musical America", or something.  It was not simply a question of
concerts, there would be programmes of music by American composers in the
middle of the afternoon - Ives, Carter, gerwshin, etc., sometimes from CD,
sometimes from concerts and archives.

There was an American theme in the BBC proms series about four years ago.
BBC Radio 3's output is so enmormous (24 hours a day every day) that they
cover pretty well everybody's nationality at some point.  This week we are
having "Barcelona Nights" to celebrate the re-opening of the opera house
there.

Tony Duggan,  England.
My (developing) Mahler recordings survey is at:
http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/Mahler/index.html