It was inevitable that the Boston Symphony – hailed as “The Aristocrat of Orchestras” in the early '60s by RCA Victor, its long-time record company – would spin off an ensemble from its ...

The great and beloved Greek conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos had been music director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra for a dozen seasons when, in 1949, he departed its podium for an even more ...

with text, in album). On some copies of this, the first complete Romeo and Juliet on disks, RCA Victor affixed a gold sticker saying “For Hi-Fi Fans.” It’s more than that; it’s the epitome ...