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NBC Symphony Orchestra
Founded
1937; 87 years ago (1937)
Disbanded
1954 (1954) (original) 1963 (1963) (renamed)
Later name
Symphony of the Air
Location
NBC Studio 8H and Carnegie Hall, New York City
Principal conductor
Arturo Toscanini
Toscanini in the Hymn of the Nations OWI film of December 1943
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 for the conductor Arturo Toscanini. The NBC Symphony Orchestra performed weekly radio broadcast concerts with Toscanini and other conductors and several of its players served in the house orchestra for the NBC Radio Network. NBC encouraged the public’s perception of the Orchestra as a full-time organization exclusively at Toscanini’s beck and call, but Fortune disclosed in 1938 that these instrumentalists played other radio—and, later, television—broadcasts: “the Toscanini concerts have been allocated only fifteen of the thirty hours a week each man works, including rehearsals.”[1]
The orchestra's first broadcast was on November 13, 1937, and it continued until disbanded in April 1954. A new ensemble, independent of the network, called the Symphony of the Air, followed. It was made up of former members of the NBC Symphony Orchestra and performed from 1954 to 1963, particularly under Leopold Stokowski.
^Russell Davenport and Maria Davenport, “Toscanini on the Air,” Fortune, January 1938, 116.
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