What is the classical orchestra which has been the first to have been featured on a sponsored radio show, shown in a motion picture, and seen on television?
On October 6, 1929 the Philadelphia Orchestra was the first orchestra to make a commercially sponsored radio broadcast. Leopold Stokowski was the conductor. Stokowski was also the conductor in 1937 when the orchestra performed for the motion picture The Big Broadcast. On March 21, 1948 Eugene Ormandy conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra on television. The broadcast on CBS was the first symphonic telecast. Source: Those Fabulous Philadelphians: The Life and Times of a Great Orchestra, 1969, p.
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