Hancock Ensemble, 1946-10-24

Hancock Ensemble, Hancock Auditorium, Hancock Foundation Building, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1946 October 24, 7:00-8:00 p.m., broadcast on KUSC (first broadcast from the newly opened radio station). Hancock Ensemble (Lisa Minghetti, violin; Allan Hancock, violoncello; et al.); William Strobridge, commentator; William H. Sener, speaker; Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid, speaker; George Allan Hancock, speaker; Albert Sydney Raubenheimer, speaker; Robert D. Fisher, speaker; Max Thomas Krone, speaker. CONTENTS: "Variation 18" from Rhapsodie sur un thème de Paganini (piano and orchestra) (arranged for instrumental ensemble) / Sergei Rachmaninoff [Сергей Рахманинов] -- Overture to The impresario, K. 486 [Der Schauspeildirektor] (opera) (arranged for instrumental ensemble) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Serenade, E-flat major, op. 7 (14 wind instruments) (arranged for instrumental ensemble) / Richard Strauss -- Allegretto and Minuetto, 2nd and 3rd movements from Symphony no. 3, D. 200 (orchestra) (arranged for instrumental ensemble) / Franz Schubert -- Gypsy serenade [Serenade du Tzigane] (violin and piano) (arranged for instrumental ensemble) / Charles Robert Valdez -- Prelude, D major, no. 4 from 10 Preludes, op. 23 (piano) (arranged for instrumental ensemble) / Sergei Rachmaninoff [Сергей Рахманинов] -- Prelude, A major, no. 7 from 24 Preludes, op. 28 (piano) (arranged for instrumental ensemble) / Frédéric Chopin -- The white peacock, no. 1 from Roman sketches, op. 7 (piano) (arranged for instrumental ensemble) / Charles Tomlinson Griffes -- Polka, from Schwanda the bagpiper [Švanda dudák] (opera) (arranged for instrumental ensemble) / Jaromír Weinberger. Includes spoken remarks by various University of Southern California faculty and administrators. See also ""Musical bill opens KUSC broadcasting"" Daily trojan 38/29 (1946 October 24): 1. https://doi.org/10.25549/uschist-dt-m63938.