Today, Grofé remains most famous for his Grand Canyon Suite ( 1931 ), a work regarded highly enough to be recorded for RCA Victor with the NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini ( in Carnegie Hall in 1945, with the composer present ).

In 1945, after the end of World War II, he became a public prosecuting attorney, and to date he is the last Italian attorney to have obtained a death sentence: in July of that year, along with two others, he was public prosecutor in the trial against former Novara prefect Enrico Vezzalini and servicemen Arturo Missiato, Domenico Ricci, Salvatore Santoro, Giovanni Zeno and Raffaele Infante, accused of " collaborating with the German invaders ".

Other famous residents of the estate included the conductor Arturo Toscanini ( 1942 – 1945 ) and chief members of the British Delegation to the United Nations ( 1950 – 1956 ).

In 1945, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony recorded a version of the work for RCA Victor ; this recording was among the first LPs released by RCA ( LM-1004 ), in 1950.

Although Arturo Toscanini was long associated with this work, performing it in his first and last concerts with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, in 1926 and 1945 respectively, the first recordings of the music were by other Italian conductors.

Toscanini remained music director until the spring of 1936, then returned several times as a guest conductor until 1945.

* Bob Hope Show ( 1945 ) NBC Radio

In 1950, a 1945 recording of Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite became the NBC Symphony's first LP release ( LM-1004 ).

* Western Suite by Elie Siegmeister – NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York, November 1945.

Many broadcast recordings with orchestras other than the NBC have also survived, including: The New York Philharmonic from 1933 – 36, 1942, and 1945 ; The BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1935 – 1939 ; The Lucerne Festival Orchestra ; and broadcasts from the Salzburg Festival in the late 1930s.

NBC carried the 30-minute Something New at 6 pm ( Pacific time ) on Mondays in 1945 – 46.

They also starred in various radio programs ( 1945 – 1949 ) and television shows ( 1954 – 1961 ) on both NBC and CBS.

His sponsor was eager to have him back on the air, and Skelton's program began anew on NBC on December 4, 1945.

He took over a year off due to hypertension and returned in 1945 with The Fred Allen Show on NBC, Sunday nights at 8: 30 p. m. EST.

Perhaps with this in mind, NBC broadcast another Lights Out revival series from New York in the summer of 1945, using seven of Wyllis Cooper's original 1930s scripts.

Don Ohlmeyer ( born Donald Winfred Ohlemeyer Jr. on February 3, 1945 in New Orleans, Louisiana ) is a US television producer and former president of the NBC network's west coast division.

in Political Science and Economics at the University of Chicago and remained in the U. S. He worked for NBC during World War II, and returned to Germany as a U. S. soldier in 1945.

* Jim Cummins ( 1945 – 2007 ), NBC reporter

The first series, broadcast by NBC in 1945, starred José Ferrer.

Then it moved to NBC, where it was broadcast from September 8, 1945 to June 29, 1951.

For two years, from 1943 until 1945, WHDH was the local affiliate of the Blue Network, the former " NBC Blue ", replacing WBZ as Blue affiliate.

The March of Time aired on CBS through October 7, 1937, and was subsequently broadcast on the Blue Network ( October 14, 1937 – June 5, 1942 ), NBC ( July 9, 1942 – October 26, 1944 ), and ABC ( November 2, 1944 – July 26, 1945 ).

The NBC Blue Network simply dropped " NBC " from its name to become the " Blue Network ," then in June 1945 re-branded itself the American Broadcasting Company.

A 25-minute NBC radio play adaptation aired on December 24, 1945.

When the U. S. Government broke up the NBC Red and Blue Networks, Ovaltine moved the series back to Mutual, beginning September 1945, and it remained there until December, 1949.

The station remained an NBC Blue station through the network's selloff, becoming an ABC affiliate in 1945 when NBC Blue formally became ABC.

NBC televised the Army – Navy Game in 1945, hailed by sports writers at the time as “ The Game of the Century .” In 1946, the Cavalcade of Sports, a primetime boxing program, debuted.

Another classic example of humorous scatting is Slim Gaillard, Leo Watson, and Bam Brown's 1945 " Avocado Seed Soup Symphony ", in which they scat variations on the word " avocado " for much of the recording.

The First Symphony was given its first performance in 1945, conducted by Sargent, while the Third Quartet was premiered in 1946 by the Zorian Quartet.

Though earlier organizations bearing the same name date back as far as 1923, the Orchestra was officially founded in 1945 and played its first concert as the Atlanta Youth Symphony under the direction of Henry Sopkin, a Chicago music educator who remained its conductor until 1966.

Boult had striven to maintain the orchestra's standards and prestige during the war ; as an instance of its prowess in the 1940s Kennedy cites an HMV recording of Elgar's Second Symphony released in January 1945: " a performance that blazed with excitement and passion and is documentary evidence of the excellence of the orchestra in 1944 ".

* Nikolai Myaskovsky-Sinfonietta in A and Symphony No. 2 completed, Cello Sonata No. 1 ( later revised in 1945 ) written.

* Symphony No. 5 " Tragic " ( 1945 – 46, withdrawn )

Harlem Symphony, composed during the 1930s, was performed at Carnegie Hall in 1945 with Johnson at the piano and Joseph Cherniavsky as conductor.

The ensemble was founded in 1945 by American occupation authorities as the orchestra for Radio Stuttgart, under the name Sinfonieorchester von Radio Stuttgart ( Symphony Orchestra of Radio Stuttgart ).

* Symphony No. 5, " Western Hemisphere " ( 1945 )

Between 1945 and 1985 he composed his series of twelve symphonies, each centred on one semi-tone of the chromatic scale, and in 1992 his unnumbered " Symphony In Memoriam John Fussell " ( his friend, the Director of the Swansea Festival ).

His wife recounts seeing him feeding manuscript papers into a fire in 1945, and some believe that among these papers was the completed Eighth Symphony.

* Symphony No. 2 in A major ( 1945 )

* Symphony No. 3 ( 1945 )

* Symphony No. 4 ( 1945 )

MacMillan conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in two films produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1945 .:

Shostakovich and Sviatoslav Richter played Symphony No. 9 in a four-hand arrangement to musicians and cultural officials in early September 1945.

The premiere, conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky, took place on 3 November 1945 in the opening concert of the 25th season of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, sharing the program with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.

The Moscow premiere took place on 20 November 1945 with Mravinsky conducting the USSR State Symphony Orchestra.

The symphony was premiered on January 13, 1945 in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory by the USSR State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Prokofiev himself.

His debuts were made in Belgium with the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mendelssohn's concerto, and in Britain with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1945.

Her orchestral works include four numbered symphonies ( 1945, 1951, 1952, and 1953 ), a Symphony for Strings ( 1946 ), and two early symphonies, now lost.