LeRoy Van Hoesen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I wonder how many people remember listening, in grade school, to
>Walter Damrosch broadcasting once a week to teach the kiddies "music
>appreciation?" "The Ride of the Valkyries" and "In the Hall of the
>Mountain King" via the school's steeple top Philco were carved in my
>mind forever.

I envy your having had the opportunity to hear Damrosch conducting Wagner.
The music of Wagner was central to Damrosch's career and yet, as far as
I know, he never made any commercial recordings of Wagner. While some
of his NBC broadcasts survive, they reside in the Library of Congress...and
can only be auditioned there.

Karl

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