Norman Schwartz: >Old stuff, didn't CBS/Columbia use the "Columbia Symphony Orchestra" >name for various East and West Cost, but creditable, ensembles? Yes indeed. This was the nom du guerre of the New York Phil, I believe the LA Phil, and the Cleveland Orchestra. I heard that the last was relegated to anonymity because Ormandy threw a fit and didn't want to be on the same label as Szell or Szell's orchestra. Columbia put Cleveland under its own name on the Epic label for years and years. RCA, because the Cleveland had signed with Columbia, did a couple of recordings with them nevertheless as the "RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra" and the "Robert Shaw Orchestra," usually for Robert Shaw recordings. Steve Schwartz *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html