Word: philco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German importation on the Lindbergh theme which Conductor Leopold Stokowski considered worthy of two Philadelphia orchestra performances in Philadelphia last week. Perhaps because it was composed expressly for radio performance,*Stokowski chose to give it in the last of four nationwide broadcasts sponsored by the Philadelphia (Philco) Storage Battery...
...This is my second attack of radio-induced "cacocthes scribendi"; Christmas Day the glorious music of Philco made me realize that there may be a Heaven after all! I'm reconciled if Saint Peter will allow Leopold Stokowski to direct the harps-with a few wind instruments added as a concession to modernity...
Elected. Edward M. Davis, founder & president of Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. (Philco radios); to be its chairman. Vice President and General Manager James M. Skinner succeeded...
Mechanically as well as musically important was the program played by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski and sponsored by Philadelphia (Philco) Storage Battery Co. Last year at his first Philco radio concert Conductor Stokowski was incensed because mere engineers were entrusted with the transmission of his music, had the power to spoil his surging crescendoes, his fragile pianissimos. The season over, he entered upon a series of experiments with National Broadcasting Co.'s head mechanics, commuted all summer between his Connecticut farm and Manhattan. The result is a device whereby he can do his own monitoring. He stands...
...Omaha Symphony works every Sunday morning for Barnsdall Refineries Inc. of Chicago; the Rochester Civic Orchestra every Wednesday evening for Stromberg-Carlson radios; Conductor Walter Damrosch and a symphony orchestra Saturday evenings in a General Electric hour; Conductor Howard Barlow and a symphony orchestra Tuesday evenings for Philco; the Los Angeles Philharmonic every Thursday evening over a Pacific Coast network for Standard Oil Co. of California. Of famed individuals scheduled to broadcast this season, many are sponsored by Atwater Kent (Contralto Louise Homer who sang last week, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Pianist Josef Hofmann, Violinist Albert Spalding, Sopranos Rosa Ponselle...