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The Orchestras of North America

on BBC Radio 3

7: The Loudest Dance Band in America.
Natalie Wheen continues her series celebrating five of the major North American orchestras with the first of two programmes on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She traces the evolution of Chicago's orchestral tradition from the early days of Theodore Thomas and Frederick Stock through to the golden ages of Fritz Reiner and Georg Solti , talking to players and to president Henry Fogel. Music includes the orchestra's first ever recording - Mendelssohn's Wedding March, made in 1916 - and excerpts from Franz Schmidt 's Symphony No 2 and Lutoslawski's Symphony No 3.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

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Natalie Wheen
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Theodore Thomas
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Frederick Stock
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Fritz Reiner
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Georg Solti
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Henry Fogel.
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Franz Schmidt

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