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CBS Broadcasting, Guest Artists, Programs and Timings, Sponsorship,, Jun 9, 1949 - Sep 24, 1952

ID:
027-01-01
Abstract
Zirato correspondence with CBS regarding radio broadcasts programs and timings, ratings, radio sponsorship, and soloists; complaint about NYP featuring "Communist front supporters", including Leonard Bernstein, Norman Corwin, Ray Lev, and Jose Ferrer, on its radio broadcasts; complaint from broadcast listener about audience noises (coughing, sneezing, grunting, wheezing) heard during Sunday broadcasts; broadcasting rights for Berg's "Wozzeck"; correspondence between Bruno Zirato and James Fassett about Richard Strauss' "Death and Transfiguration" being inappropriate for Christmas week program (28 Dec 1952); LS-James Fassett, Supervisor of Music for CBS and radio host, re radio broadcasts; LS-Frank Stanton, CBS President; LS-Mac Benoff; LS-James M. Seward, CBS Vice President; Newspaper column by John Crosby about radio broadcasts of symphony orchestras
Project Funder
  • Leon Levy Foundation
Preferred Citation
CBS Broadcasting, Guest Artists, Programs and Timings, Sponsorship,, 9 Jun 1949 - 24 Sep 1952, Folder 027-01-01, Operations/Orchestra Services Records, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives.
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