Wallingford Riegger

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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Wallingford Riegger introduces music, the music is not on this recording.

Arthur Foote, "Suite in E" performed by the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, directed by Howard Hanson.

Carl Ruggles, "Organum" performed by the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, directed by Leopold Stokowski.

Alan Hovhaness, "Concerto for Orchestra" performed by the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, directed by Howard Hanson.

Wallingford Riegger, "Canon and Fugue for string orchestra" performed by the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, directed by Leopold Stokowski.

Wallingford Riegger, "Symphony No. 3" performed by the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, directed by Howard Hanson.

Note: This broadcast is probably from February 12, 1954 but the disc and the original catalog card indicate February 1. The American Music Festival traditionally ran from Lincoln's to Washington's birthday.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 72639
Municipal archives id: LT6773

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