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Photographer unknown Late 1970s
Under Ormandy's direction, the orchestra recorded five hour-long
programs for Unitel during three successive summers in the late
1970s. For these featured works in these concerts, Ormandy selected
romantic scores with colorful orchestrations that would show off the
"Philadelphia Sound."
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Ormandy's transcription of George Frideric
Handel's Organ Concerto in D Major (HWV 335a), Claude Debussy's La mer, and Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite (24
June 1977)
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Gustav Holst's Planets (25 June
1977)
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, Michail Glinka's Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla, and
Dmitry Kabalevsky's Overture to Colas Breugnon (30 June
1978)
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Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's Overture to The
Secret of Suzanna, Richard Strauss's Rosenkavalier Suite, and Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (1 July
1978)
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Peter Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy and Violin Concerto in D Major (with soloist
Itzhak Perlman) (13–14 June 1979)
In 1980, the year following the last Unitel
taping, Ormandy retired as music director of the orchestra and was
named conductor laureate. In 1981, PBS
broadcast the six-part series The Fabulous Philadelphians: From
Ormandy to Muti, co-produced with Philadelphia station WHYY-TV. Ormandy continued to appear as a guest conductor during the years
preceding his death in 1985 in Philadelphia at the age of 85.
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