One of the earliest recordings was for Vanguard Records with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Symphony of the Air ; the original stereo LP also included a suite from Thomson's score for another Lorentz documentary, The River.

Under GM's sponsorship the NBC Symphony broadcasts went out under the title of General Motors Symphony of the Air, not to be confused with the later orchestra of the same name.

In the early 1960s, Bennett re-recorded music from Victory at Sea in a famed series of three stereo records for RCA Victor, conducting a studio orchestra, the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra ( members of the Symphony of the Air ).

However, many former NBC Symphony members, in an attempt to stay together and preserve the orchestra, regrouped as a new ensemble called the " Symphony of the Air ".

On November 14 they appeared on the acclaimed Omnibus TV program in which Leonard Bernstein, making his first television appearance, discussed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and Bernstein led the Symphony of the Air during its first season.

For nearly a decade, the Symphony of the Air performed many concerts led by Stokowski, the orchestra's music director from 1955.

After his retirement, the NBC Symphony was reorganized as the Symphony of the Air, making regular performances and recordings, until it was disbanded in 1963.

* February 3 – The Symphony of the Air, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, gives the world première of Robert Moevs's Fourteen Variations for Orchestra ( composed in 1952 ) in New York.

* October 14 – Leopold Stokowski conducts the Symphony of the Air in three world premièees at Carnegie Hall: Charles Ives's Browning Overture, Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 3, and Kurt Leimer's Piano Concerto No. 4.

When the NBC Symphony was reorganized in the fall of 1954 as the Symphony of the Air, it continued to record for RCA, as well as other labels, usually with Leopold Stokowski.

RCA also released a number of recordings with the Victor Symphony Orchestra, later renamed the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, which was usually drawn from either Philadelphia or New York musicians, as well as members of the Symphony of the Air.

** Kiril Kondrashin ( conductor ), Van Cliburn & the Symphony of the Air Orchestra for Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3

Existing units including the Ministry of National Defense Symphony Orchestra, the Army Band, the Navy Band, and the Air Force Band.

Only some of Villa-Lobos ' music was actually used in the film ; much of the rest was later arranged as the secular cantata Forest of the Amazons, which Villa-Lobos recorded in stereophonic sound for United Artists Records with the Symphony of the Air.

His best known pieces are probably the Symphony on a French Mountain Air ( Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français, also known as Symphonie cévenole ) for piano and orchestra ( 1886 ), and Istar ( 1896 ), a symphonic poem in the form of a set of variations in which the theme appears only at the end.

Nikisch premiered important works by Anton Bruckner and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who greatly admired his work ; Johannes Brahms, after hearing him conduct his Fourth Symphony, said it was " quite exemplary, it's impossible to hear it any better.

In this respect, instrumental music transcends other arts and languages to become the discourse of a ‘ higher realm ’ — propagated greatly in Hoffmann ’ s famous review of Beethoven ’ s 5th Symphony, published in 1810.

“ Not long after Simrock published the D major Symphony, performances were taking place in half a dozen different countries, and generally the new work was so well received as to contribute greatly towards establishing Dvořák as one of the foremost composers of his generation .”

In the last chapter of the book and after the destruction of the peach, it is revealed that he becomes a member of the New York Symphony Orchestra where his playing is greatly admired.

While in New York, he conducted the premiere performance of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, " From the New World ", which greatly influenced the direction of American classical music.

Benjamin was greatly encouraged in his musical career by his grandfather, J. Edward Smith, who played violin, clarinet & piano, among other instruments, throughout his life, and was a musician with the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra, in Monmouth County, NJ, for many years until his death.

Instead it prominently heads the second subject, which in both musical gesture and Dies-Irae-related content greatly resembles the triumphant second subject from the Finale of Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony.

The increasingly deaf Beethoven led the performance, " assisted " by Michael Umlauf, who later performed the same task for Beethoven at the premiere of the Ninth Symphony.

Later, in 1910, Klemperer assisted Mahler in the premiere of his Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand.

President Kennedy couldn't stay away from his desk for the 75-minute young people's concert played on the White House lawn yesterday by the 85-piece Transylvania Symphony Orchestra from Brevard, N. C..

In 1945, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of the few commercial recordings Toscanini made of music by an American composer.

In this movie a young female music student hired by Beethoven to copy out his Ninth Symphony is staying at a monastery.

* In the book Dark Symphony ( 2003 ) by Christine Feehan, Byron gives Antonietta a black borzoi named " Celt ".

The score was composed by Tan Dun, originally performed by Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai National Orchestra, and Shanghai Percussion Ensemble.

The disc contained a recording of Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie ( in English, An Alpine Symphony ), played by the Berlin Philharmonic and conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

This capacity was reportedly specified by Sony executive Norio Ohga so as to be able to contain the entirety of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on one disc.

Originally presented with an opportunity to rock out Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 " From the New World " by their new stereophonic label, the band instead forged ahead to unify their own orchestral-based threads of a day in the life of a common man.

February 1968 saw the premiere of The Light in the Wilderness for baritone solo, choir, organ, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel, and Brubeck improvising on certain themes within.

* 1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto ( performed by Beethoven himself ) and Choral Fantasy ( with Beethoven at the piano ).

Regarding Schmidt's political naivety, Michael Steinberg, in his magisterial book, The Symphony, tells of Schmidt's recommending Variations on a Hebrew Theme by his student Israel Brandmann to a musical group associated with the proto-Nazi German National Party.

The Hebrides, also known as Fingal's Cave, is a famous overture composed by Felix Mendelssohn while residing on these islands, while Granville Bantock composed the Hebridean Symphony.

He later returned to the world of the arts by designing the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the Miho Museum in Japan, the Suzhou Museum in Suzhou, and the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.

Although he usually designed entirely by hand, Pei used a computer to " confirm the spaces " for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.

Antonín Dvořák, who received substantial assistance from Brahms, deeply admired his music and was influenced by it in several works, such as the Symphony No. 7 in D minor and the F minor Piano Trio.

* Late Idyll: The Second Symphony of Johannes Brahms, by Reinhold Brinkmann, translated by Peter Palmer.

Chamber Symphony ( 1992 ): This piece was commissioned by the Gerbode Foundation of San Francisco for the San Francisco Contemporary Chamber Players.

" After the 2001 cancellation of performances of excerpts from " Klinghoffer " by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, debate has continued about the opera's content and social worth.

* Symphony No. 1, Versuch eines Requiem for alto and orchestra ( 1950 ) – revised version of Symphonisches Fragment ( on texts by Walt Whitman )

* Kantate for soprano and orchestra on texts by Walt Whitman ( 1936 ); later retitled Lamento and in 1938 revised as Symphonisches Fragment, whence Symphony No. 1