American Recording Society ‎– ARS-4. Format: Vinyl, LP, 10", Album.

With the Prague Symphony Orchestra

American Recording Society Orchestra, Dean Dixon (2), Douglas Moore, Randall Thompson - Symphony in A Major/Symphony No. 2 ‎(LP). American Recording Society. Douglas Moore, John Latouche, Beverly Sills, Walter Cassel, Frances Bible, The New York City Opera Orchestra And Chorus, Emerson Buckley - The Ballad Of Baby Doe (Album).

Charles Dean Dixon (January 10, 1915 – November 3, 1976) was an American conductor. Dixon was born in the upper-Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem in New York City to parents who had earlier migrated from the Caribbean. He studied conducting with Albert Stoessel at the Juilliard School and Columbia University. When early pursuits of conducting engagements were stifled because of racial bias (he was African American), he formed his own orchestra and choral society in 1931

Produced For – American Recording Society. Composed By – Walter Piston. Conductor – Dean Dixon (2). Orchestra – American Recording Society Orchestra. back cover describes B2 as Finale: Allegro.

Album · 2000 · 6 Songs. Symphony No. 1: III. Allegro. Dean Dixon & American Recording Society Symphony Orchestra. Released: 1 Jan 2000. 2000 Naxos Classical Archives.

Dean Dixon 1915-1976 Conductor Dean Dixon was the first major African-American orchestral conductor in American classical music. As a young man he was not only talented but innovative, creating new ensembles that brought classical music closer to the communities it served. He called it the Dean Dixon Symphony Orchestra, holding rehearsals at the Harlem branch of the YMCA. The orchestra's membership included players from ages twelve to seventy-two, men and women, blacks and whites. Dixon also enrolled in a master's program in music pedagogy at Columbia University, receiving a master's degree in 1939. By that time he had made his formal debut as a conductor, leading a concert by a group called the Music Lovers Chamber Orchestra at the Town Hall concert space in 1938.

Only 6 left in stock (more on the way). Between 1965 and 1968, the musical polymath Morton Gould conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a handful of recordings for RCA Victor. In and out of the catalogue for decades mostly out they have become the stuff of legend. Each album is presented with it's original cardboard LP sleeve: Disc 1 Gould/Spirituals for Orchestra & Copland/Dance Symphony Disc 2 Ives/Symphony N. (1st recording), The Unanswered Question & Variations on America Disc 3 Tchaikovsky/Waltzes (The only album of warhorse pieces) Disc 4 Nielsen/Symphony No. 2 & Clarinet Concerto with Benny Goodman Disc 5 Ives/Orchestral Set.

Douglas Moore has appeared with orchestras and in recitals throughout the United States. He has played at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and at the Great Music West (Utah), Saratoga Baroque, Music Mountain, and Newport music festivals. Moore is an artist/teacher at the Manchester (VT) Music Festival. Concerti by Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Schumann, Lalo, Shostakovich, Saint-Saëns, Arthur Foote, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Bloch and Hindemith are in his repertoire. The first modern-day performance of Foote’s Cello Concerto took place in 1981 with Douglas Moore as soloist; since then he has performed the work with orchestras in Connecticut, Minnesota, Virginia, Massachusetts, Vermont, Illinois and Iowa.