NBC Symphony Orchestra
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The NBC Symphony Orchestra was a radio orchestra conceived by David Sarnoff, the president of the Radio Corporation of America, the parent corporation of the National Broadcasting Company especially f
Toscanini in the Hymn of the Nations OWI film of December 1943
Arturo Toscanini conducting Verdi's La forza del destino overture
Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra performing Verdi's Hymn of the Nations, from 1944 OWI film
Victory at Sea
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Victory at Sea is a documentary television series about warfare in general during World War II, and naval warfare in particular, as well as the use of industry in warfare. It was broadcast by NBC in t
NBC Symphony Orchestra
…of the NBC Symphony Orchestra's most ambitious projects was the recording of the (nominally) 13-hour musical score for NBC Television's 1952–53 series Victory at Sea. Robert Russell Bennett conducted the orchestra in his scoring--recorded in Rockefeller Center's Center Theatre)--which incorporated a dozen musical…
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