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November 8, 1931 The New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Erich Kleiber, Conductor, Olin Downes, Commentator. Iturbi plays Mozart's Piano Concerto in E-flat, K482.
November 4, 1934 Symphony Concert Ernst Ansermet, conductor. Iturbi plays Haydn's Concerto for Piano in D-major, two Chopin Etudes, and De Falla's Ritual Fire Dance.
November 10, 1935 Symphony Concert Erno Rapee, conductor, Iturbi soloist; program unknown.
December 19, 1935 To Arms for Peace Special broadcast. Iturbi plays De Falla's Ritual Fire Dance and Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu.
January 5, 1936 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Victor Kolar, conductor. Iturbi plays Caesar Franck's Symphonic Variations, Schubert's Impromptu in A-flat major, and two Debussy selections: Poisson D'or and Faux Artifice.
June 20, 1936 Iturbi conducts the Detroit Symphony Program unknown.
August 25, 1936 The famous Cleveland broadcast with hot-dogs and soda-pop being slurped in the background.
November 15, 1936 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Alexander Smallens, conductor. Iturbi plays Albeniz' Seguidillas, Brahms' C-major Intermezzo, and the third movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C-minor. The following week he became guest conductor for a series of 8 concerts on this weekly broadcast.
November 22, 1936 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Program unknown.
November 29, 1936 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for soloist Ezio Pinza.
December 3, 1936 Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Iturbi conducts Weber's Overture to Oberon, Sibelius' Symphony #2 in D-major, Chavarri's Acuarelas Valencianas, Turina's La Procesion del Rocio, and three Spanish Dances by Granados.
December 6, 1936 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for soloist Marjorie Lawrence.
December 13, 1936 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for soprano Amelita Galli-Curci.
December 20, 1936 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts Wagner's Prelude to Lohengrin, Handel's Pastoral Symphony from "the Messiah." Conducts two numbers with chorus: Holst's Christmas Day and the traditional hymn, Adeste Fidelis. Conducting for violinist Jascha Heifetz: Wagner's Prize Song from die Meistersinger, Wieniawski's Polonaise. (Note: Heifetz performed three solos with piano accompaniment: Ponce's Estrellita, Drigo's Valse Bluette, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, but it is not confirmed that Iturbi was the accompanist.) Others: The Detroit Symphony.
December 27, 1936 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for Lauritz Melchior. Others: The Detroit Symphony.
January 3, 1937 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for Lily Pons. Others: The Detroit Symphony.
January 10, 1937 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for Betty Jaynes, a 15-year-old opera singer. This was her radio debut. Program includes Micaela's aria from Carmen, the Addio from Puccini's La Boheme, and Victor Herbert's Thine Alone from Eileen. Others: The Detroit Symphony.
January 31, 1937 Symphony Concert Iturbi conducts for Kirsten Flagstad. Pieces include Wagner's Prelude to die Meistersinger and Von Weber's Leise, Leise.
February 18, 1937 Rochester Philharmonic Iturbi conducts an all-Wagner program with soprano Beal Hober as the soloist. Pieces include the Overture to the Flying Dutchman, the Siegfried Idyll and the Funeral March from Gotterdammerung.
March 18, 1937 Rochester Philharmonic Iturbi conducts Wagner & Brahms. Pieces include Wagner's Overture to die Meistersinger and Brahms' Symphony #3.
April 18, 1937 Philadelphia Orchestra National Tour Kickoff Concert Four conductors launch the two-month trans-national tour of the Philadelphia Orchestra. As conductor, Iturbi leads the orchestra in Debussy's Fêtes; as soloist he plays Chopin's Waltz in A-flat. Others: Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski, Charles O'Connell, Marian Anderson, the Philadelphia Orchestra.
May 20, 1937 Symphony Orchestra Iturbi conducts the Rochester Philharmonic in two tone poems: Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun and Sibelius' Finlandia.
May 24, 1937 Symphony Orchestra Iturbi conducts the Rochester Philharmonic. Described as "a varied program of classical works of modern and past eras."
May 30, 1937 The Chase and Sanborn Hour Don Ameche (host). Don Briggs (commercial spokesman). Iturbi plays Ritual Fire Dance by de Falla and, at Charlie McCarthy's request, Chopsticks. Others: Josephine Hutchinson, Don Ameche, Edgar Bergen, Werner Janssen and his orchestra, W. C. Fields, Josephine Hutchinson, Dorothy Lamour.
June 17, 1937 Kraft Music Hall Bing Crosby, host. Iturbi's program unknown. Others: Pat O'Brien, Katherine DeMille, Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra.
June 27, 1937 Conducting the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra Program unknown.
July 10, 1937 Symphony Orchestra Iturbi directs the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra in Beethoven's Overture #3 to Leonore and Cesar Franck's Symphony in D-minor.
July 15, 1937 Bob Burns show Iturbi's program unknown.
July 29, 1937 Symphony Orchesra Iturbi conducts for three other pianists: Harold Bauer, Rudolph Ganz, & George Copeland, performing Bach's Concerto in C-major for Three Pianos & Strings. Others: the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra.
August 7, 1937 Symphony Orchestra Iturbi conducts the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra; numbers by Mozart, Heydn, & Dohanyi.
August 9, 1937 Symphony Orchestra The controversial performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Robin Hood Dell; only part of the broadcast was made.
August 17, 1937 Symphony Orchestra Iturbi conducts the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra in Beethoven's Eroica and Magic Fire Music from Die Walkurie.
September 8, 1937 George Gershwin Memorial Concert Iturbi leads the LA Philharmonic in Rhapsody in Blue from the piano. Others: Al Jolson, Charles Previn (conductor), Fred Astaire, George Jessel, Gladys Swarthout, Lily Pons, Nathaniel Finston (conductor), Oscar Levant, The Hall Johnson Choir, Victor Young (composer). Although not generally well regarded today, columnist Paul Dumai wrote in his review that Iturbi's playing and conducting of Rhapsody in Blue was "priceless." Two years later, when the concert had become an annual affair, Damai lamented, "Too bad José Iturbi can't be here for the second annual Gershwin Memorial Hour today. Roy Bargy will play the Rhapsody in Blue." (Commercially Available.)
September 12, 1937 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for guest soloist John Charles Thomas.
September 19, 1937 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for guest soloist Amparo Iturbi.
September 26, 1937 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for guest soloist Richard Crooks.
October 3, 1937 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for guest soloist Kirsten Flagstad.
October 6, 1937 Andre Kostelanetz' Orchestra Iturbi plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Rimsky-Korsakov's Caprice Español. (Interesting note - the writer described Iturbi's playing as, "If you want to hear a man machine-gun a piano until it reverberates 'I Surrender Dear,' tune in on Iturbi.")
October 10, 1937 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for guest soloist Lucrezia Bori. Among Bori's songs: the aria from Thomas' Mignon, Connais-tu le pays, Arditi's Il Baccio, and Home Sweet Home by Payne and Bishop.
October 17, 1937 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for guest soloist Lauritz Melchior.
October 24, 1937 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for guest soloist Lotte Lehmann.
October 31, 1937 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for guest soloist Brazilian soprano Bidu Sayao.
November 17, 1937 Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Iturbi's program unknown.
November 21, 1937 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for guest soloist tenor Charles Kullman.
December 2, 1937 Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Iturbi's program unknown.
December 30, 1937 Kraft Music Hall Bing Crosby, host. Iturbi's program unknown. Others: Louis Armstrong, Connie Boswell, John Scott Trotter (orchestra director).
January 13, 1938 Rochester Philharmonic "Milestones in American Music."
January 20, 1938 Rochester Philharmonic Program unknown.
January 30, 1938 Magic Key Hour Program unknown. Others: Ezio Pinza, Carol Weyman.
February 2, 1938 Rochester Philharmonic Program unknown.
February 17, 1938 Rochester Philharmonic Program unknown.
February 24, 1938 Rochester Philharmonic Program unknown.
March 3, 1938 Rochester Philharmonic "Milestones in American Music."
March 13, 1938 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi performs Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and two movements from Haydn's D-major Concerto for Harpsichord. Others: Sir Ernest MacMillan, conducting the Detroit Symphony.
March 17, 1938 Rochester Orchestra, Iturbi conducting Program unknown.
April 3, 1938 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for soloist Nelson Eddy. Program unknown.
April 10, 1938 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for violinist and composer Georges Enesco.
April 17, 1938 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for soloist Gladys Swarthout. Program unknown.
August 11, 1938 Kraft Music Hall Bing Crosby, host. Iturbi's program unknown. Others: Olivia de Havilland, Lou Holtz.
September 25, 1938 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Jose & Amparo Iturbi both appeared; program unknown. Unknown whether they played together or if he conducted with her soloing.
October 9, 1938 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for soloist Bidu Sayao. Numbers include L'Italiana in Algeri, a group of waltzes from Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, the finale from Dvorak's E-minor Symphony ("From the New World"), and De Koven's Recessional.
October 14, 1938 Special broadcast by President Roosevelt with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Iturbi.
October 16, 1938 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for Richard Crooks. Program unknown.
October 23, 1938 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for baritone Lawrence Tibbett, whose program includes arias from The Barber of Seville and The King's Henchmen, Brahms' In Summer Fields and Damrosch's Danny Deever.
October 30, 1938 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for soloist Emma Otero, Cuban coloratura. Program unknown. Others: Frank La Farge (accompanying Otero), Detroit Symphony.
November 20, 1938 Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli. Gigli's selections include Puccini's aria from La Bohem, Che Gelida Manina, Leoncavallo's Mattinata, Cardello's Core Ingrato, and Celeste Aida, from Verdi's Aida.
November 27, 1938 Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for soloist Elizabeth Rethberg. Program includes the debut performance of a Czechoslovakian folk song, "Waters Ripple and Flow," and Andre Kostelanez' arrangement of Debussy's Clair de Lune.
December 1, 1938 Rochester Philharmonic Program unknown.
December 4, 1938 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for Ezio Pinza.
December 11, 1938 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi conducts for Viennese soloist Maria Reining in her radio debut.
January 19, 1939 Symphony Orchestra Iturbi conducts Coppola & Gerschefski works, including Pagan Dances. Others: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, League of Composers Brass Septet.
January 22, 1939 The Circle Ronald Colman (host), Gordon Fraser (announcer). Iturbi is inducted into The Circle and plays Marche Funebre by Felipe Lazar. Wrote one columnist: "A bouquet of your finest orchids, Mr. Winchell, for the man who is taking good music away from the stuffed shirts and giving it back to the people." Others: Cary Grant, Robert Emmett Dolan and orchestra, Groucho and Chico Marx, Carole Lombard. (Commercially Available.)
February 9, 1939 Rochester Philharmonic Program Unknown.
March 2, 1939 Rochester Philharmonic Program Unknown.
April 2, 1939 The New York Philharmonic Iturbi plays Liszt's Concerto #1 in E-flat Major.
April 9, 1939 Ford Sunday Evening Concert Hour Iturbi plays Liszt's Hungarian Fantasie with the orchestra and solos with Chopin's Scherzo in B-flat minor. Others: Franco Ghione, conductor, Helen Hadley, soprano.
April 16, 1939 The Circle Iturbi's second appearance on this variety show. Others: Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Groucho and Chico Marx, Madeleine Carroll, Bobby Dolan.
August 10, 1939 Kraft Music Hall Iturbi's portion of the program unknown, but he did promise to tell some "tall tales" about the flying South American tour from which he had just returned. Others: Bob Burns (mc), Pat Friday and the Music Maids, Frank Albertson, Hedda Hopper.
November 2, 1939 Rochester Philharmonic Program Unknown.
January 11, 1940 Rochester Philharmonic "An American Composers Concert." Exact program contents unknown. (Note: Iturbi's mother had died only the week before.)
February 2, 1940 University of Manitoba Music Hour This was a pre-recorded radio program (recording date unknown) featuring Iturbi, Myra Hess, and William Bachans. The selections played were Mozart's Sonata in A-major, Chopin's Nocturne in F-sharp, and Brahms' Waltzes 1, 2, and 15. The newspapers did not record which artist played which selection, but it is a safe bet to assume Iturbi played at least the Mozart Sonata.
February 2, 1940 Rochester Philharmonic Program Unknown.
February 8, 1940 Rochester Philharmonic Iturbi conducts for duo-pianists Ethel Barrett and Rac Robertson. Program unknown.
March 3, 1940 Ford Sunday Evening Hour Iturbi, just back from 2 weeks in Mexico, as soloist plays the Finale of Mendelssohn's Concerto in G-minor, Liszt's Liebestraum, and Albéniz' Sevilla. Others: Eugene Ormandy (conductor), the Ford Symphony Orchestra.
March 21, 1940 Rochester Philharmonic Program unknown.
March 7, 1940 Rochester Symphony Orchestra Program unknown.
May 2, 1940 Kraft Music Hour Bing Crosby (host), John Scott Trotter (announcer). Iturbi's part of the program unknown. Others: Bob Burns, Annabella (wife of Tyrone Power), the Musical Maids, Ken Carpenter.
August 8, 1940 Kraft Music Hour Bob Burns (host-Bing Crosby was on vacation.) José and Amparo starred together. Others: Charles Laughton, Lillian Cornell.
September 15, 1940 Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy Iturbi flew back from Mexico especially for this program in which he chatted with Bergen and McCarthy and played two solos.
October 27, 1940 Ford Sunday Evening Hour Iturbi as soloist plays the Finale of the Grieg Concerto in A-minor. Others: Victor Kolar (conductor), the Ford Symphony Orchestra.
November 7, 1940 Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Program unknown.
December 26, 1940 Kraft Music Hour Iturbi's portion of the program unknown. Others: Bing Crosby, Thomas Mitchell.
May 15, 1941 The Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show Rudy wants Iturbi to accompany his crooning recital at Carnegie Hall. Iturbi plays Chopin's Fantasy Impromptu. Others: Frank Fay.
November 16, 1941 The Ford Sunday Evening Hour Iturbi conducts Espan Harlem. Others: Lawrence Tibbett, The Ford Symphony Orchestra, The Ford Chorus.
May 25, 1942 The Telephone Hour Donald Voorhees (conductor). Iturbi performs Ritual Fire Dance. The Bell Symphonic Orchestra.
August 18, 1942 Command Performance Cary Grant (M.C.) Iturbi performs the Ritual Fire Dance. Others: Joan Davis, Ella Mae Morse, Virginia O'Brien, Bert Lahr, Freddy Slack and his orchestra.
November 26, 1942 Elgin Thanksgiving Tribute to Our Armed Forces Don Ameche (host), Bill Goodwin (announcer). Iturbi plays Ritual Fire Dance. Others: Allan Jones, Red Skelton, Harriet Hilliard, The Golden Gate Quartet, Gene Krupa, Loretta Young, Louis Silvers and orchestra, Ginny Simms, Judy Canova, Spike Jones and The City Slickers.
January 9, 1943 Mail Call Program #19 Groucho Marx (m.c.), Bill Goodwin (announcer). Iturbi tells about his most exciting concert, when the crew of a fighting ship in the Pacific played his records while they waited for the enemy planes to attack. He plays Sevillanas by Albéniz for the servicemen. Judy Garland urges him to "get groovy" and gives him a "musical haircut" so he can play boogie-woogie. They then perform The Joint is Really Jumpin' together. Others: Betty Grable, Judy Garland, Phil Silvers, Rags Ragland. (Commercially Available.)
January 24, 1943 The Charlie McCarthy Show Iturbi plays the 11th Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz Liszt and Gershwin's First and Third Preludes. Edgar Bergen, Don Ameche, Jeanette MacDonald, Adeline Bushnell, Marshall Bradford, Dale Evans, The Sportsmen, Joseph McNierny, Pat Patrick.
March 9, 1943 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Iturbi - and everybody else - tries to talk Gracie out of appearing at Carnegie Hall (her famous Concerto for Index Finger). This one is funny if for no other reason than Iturbi's hamming up his reputation as a ladies' man. Iturbi performs Ritual Fire Dance. Others: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bill Goodwin, Paul Whiteman and orchestra, Jimmy Cash, Deems Taylor. (Commercially Available.)
April 24, 1943 Command Performance Ann Sheridan (m.c.). Iturbi plays Chopin's Waltz in A-flat and discusses music theory with Gracie Allen. Others: Bonnie Baker, Paul Whiteman and orchestra. (Commercially Available.)
June 5, 1943 Command Performance Betty Hutton (m.c.), Ken Carpenter (announcer). Iturbi plays Fantasy Impromptu and has a piano lesson. A similar script was used on The Amos 'n' Andy Show on October 5, 1943. Others: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Woody Herman and orchestra, Phil Kramer. (Commercially Available.)
July 25, 1943 The New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Bernard Dudley (announcer). Iturbi conducts Symphony #5 "From the New World" by Dvorak and then plays and conducts Liszt's Piano Concerto in E major. Also, Soliloquy, a new orchestral work written and conducted by Iturbi, is heard. Others: Carl Van Doren, Robert Montgomery, The New York Philharmonic.
August 25, 1943 Morton Gould Orchestra, WABC Iturbi plays Chopin's Minute Waltz and joins the orchestra for a special piano/orchestra arrangement of Gould's American Concertette. Others: Morton Gould and his orchestra, tenor Churchu Martinez.
October 15, 1943 The Amos 'n' Andy Show Harlow Wilcox (announcer). Andy has graduated from a correspondence course in piano playing. Amos and Ruby visit Carnegie Hall, where they hear guest Jose Iturbi perform. Iturbi plays a portion of Liszt's 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody. Later, Iturbi comes to see Amos and somehow becomes Andy's first piano student! A similar situation was used on Command Performance AFRS #69 (see above). The best part of this one is listening to Iturbi's helpless giggling in the background while the other actors mangle the pronunciation of his name. Others: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll. (Commercially Available.)
November 25, 1943 The Elgin Company's Second Annual Tribute To The Armed Forces Robert Young (host), Ken Carpenter (announcer). Iturbi plays Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #11 and boogie woogie. Others: James Newell, George Burns, Gracie Allen, The Pied Pipers, Jackson Beck, Frank Lovejoy, Louis Silvers and His Orchestra, The Swing Wing, Manny Klein, Ed Gardner, Danny O'Neil, Jack Douglas, Ginny Simms, Alvino Rey, Elsie Janis, Frances Langford, Edgar Bergen, Susanna Foster, Alan Reed.
February 7, 1944 The Telephone Hour Donald Voorhees (conductor). Iturbi solos with the orchestra in Liszt's Hungarian Fantasy. Others: The Bell Telephone Orchestra.
June 10, 1944 Command Performance Program #124 Bette Davis (m.c.), Ken Carpenter (announcer). Iturbi trades insults with Jimmy Durante, "auditions" to play for Durante's "gala affair" and plays Waltz in E-minor by Chopin for the boys. (More giggling from Iturbi at Durante's jokes.) Others: Jimmy Durante, Marilyn Maxwell, Artie Shaw, The Music Maids, Meredith Willson (conductor). (Commercially available.)
August 30, 1944 Mail Call Program #107 Claudette Colbert (m.c.), Don Wilson (announcer). Iturbi plays Debussy's Arabesque. Others: Martha Mears, Robert Benchley, Billie Burke, Charles Boyer, Edgar Barrier.
November 6, 1944 The Telephone Hour Program #105 Broadcast for Armed Forces; AFRS program name: Music From America. Donald Voorhees (conductor). Iturbi plays Liszt's Liebestraum, Granados' Spanish Dance in G-major, Chopin's Waltz in E-minor, and the third movement of Tchaikovsky's B-minor concerto. Jose Iturbi, The Bell Telephone Orchestra.
July 11, 1945 Mail Call Program #152 AFRS origination. Johnny Mercer (m.c.), Don Wilson (announcer). Iturbi plays Chopin's Polonaise in A-flat, but only after a comic interlude in which he protests playing classical, saying he is a "hep citizen" and wants to play some "groovy gravy." Others: Charlie Cantor, Eugenie Baird, Mel Torme and The Meltones, The Armed Forces Radio Service Orchestra.
August 14, 1945 Command Performance Victory Extra Bing Crosby (m.c.), Ken Carpenter (announcer). This is a reprise featuring moments from past shows. The Iturbi segment is with Bette Davis and Jimmy Durante; see June 10, 1944 above for details. Others: Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Jimmy Durante, Lionel Barrymore, Marlene Dietrich, Burgess Meredith, Ginny Simms, Frank Sinatra, Janet Blair, William Powell, Harry Von Zell, Lucille Ball, The King Sisters, Cary Grant, Robert Montgomery, Lena Horne, Martha Wilkerson, Johnny Mercer, Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Lina Romay, Danny Kaye, Herbert Marshall, Carmen Miranda, Claudette Colbert, Ed Gardner, Marilyn Maxwell, Greer Garson, Ronald Colman.
February 10, 1946 The Charlie McCarthy Show Edgar Bergen, Bill Forman (announcer). Iturbi tries to convince Charlie to have the Rat Sluggers put on a show. Iturbi plays a Chopin waltz and, The Boogie With The Fringe On Top (an abridged version of "the Joint is Jumpin' "). Others: Ray Noble and His Orchestra, The King Sisters.
May 27, 1946 The Lux Radio Theatre Music For Millions A wartime story about a woman in Iturbi's orchestra, her husband away at war, and her precocious kid sister, Little Mike. William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Thomas Hanlon (second announcer). The drama stars Margaret O'Brien, Jose Iturbi, Jimmy Durante, Frances Gifford, Marissa O'Brien, Florence Lake, Norman Field, Janet Scott, Edwin Cooper, Edward Marr, Truda Marson, James Eagles, Guy Kingsford, Charles Seel. (This show was broadcast three times: as a rehearsal, as a network program and as an AFRS program.) (Commercially available.)
September 19, 1948 Guest Star Win Elliot (announcer). Iturbi plays Debussy's Reverie. Others: Harry Sosnik and The Savings Bonds Orchestra.
January 23, 1955 The Telephone Hour Donald Vorhees (conductor). Iturbi plays Ravel's Ondine. Others: The Bell Telephone Orchestra.
May 16, 1955 The Telephone Hour Donald Voorhees (conductor). A Birthday broadcast, celebrating the start of the program's 16th year on the air. The program originates from Carnegie Hall, New York City. Others: The Bell Telephone Orchestra, Michael Rabin, Lily Pons, Eileen Farrell, Brian Sullivan.
April 29, 1956 The Telephone Hour Donald Voorhees (conductor), Floyd Mack (announcer). The sixteenth anniversary broadcast. (The Iturbi portion of the broadcast was recorded February 28, 1956.) Iturbi plays Clair de Lune. Others: Lily Pons, Eileen Farrell, Michael Rabin (violin), Brian Sullivan, The Bell Telephone Orchestra. ?????
May 14, 1956 The Telephone Hour Donald Voorhees (conductor). Iturbi plays two movements, the Andante and the Finale, from his own composition, Fantasie. He also plays Debussy's L'Isle Joyeaux. Others: The Bell Telephone Orchestra.
July 9, 1956 The Telephone Hour Donald Voorhees (conductor). Iturbi plays three De Falla selections from El Amor Brujo: Pantomime, Dance of Terror, and Ritual Fire Dance; he concludes with the last movement of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto in G-major. Others: The Bell Telephone Orchestra.
October 22, 1956 The Telephone Hour Donald Voorhees (conductor). Iturbi solos in Liszt's Liebestraum in honor of the 145th anniversary of the composer's birthday, and plays Albeniz' Spanish Rhapsody with the orchestra. Others: The Bell Telephone Orchestra.
April 22, 1957 The Telephone Hour Donald Voorhees (conductor). Iturbi plays Debussy's Fantasie and Albeniz' Sevillanas. Others: The Bell Telephone Orchestra.
October 7, 1957 The Telephone Hour Donald Voorhees (conductor). Iturbi plays Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp Minor and Humoresque, and finishes up with the third movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto 3 in C-minor. Others: The Bell Telephone Orchestra.
April 14, 1958 The Telephone Hour Donald Voorhees (conductor). Iturbi presents a new piece to American audiences; Joaquin Cassado's Hispania, based on the folk melodies of Spain. This piece had never been published for orchestra and was located - in pieces - over a two-year search. Iturbi also plays the last movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Others: The Bell Telephone Orchestra.
October 25, 1959 Eleanor Roosevelt Diamond Jubilee The program is presented on behalf of The Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research. Iturbi briefly discusses the importance of cancer research and plays Chopin's Waltz #2. Others: Richard Nixon, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, Lauren Bacall, Ralph Bellamy, Gertrude Berg, Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor, Art Carney, Maurice Chevalier, Jimmy Durante, Henry Fonda, Arthur Godfrey, Cedric Hardwicke, Helen Hayes, Bob Hope, Henry Morgan, Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Taylor, Harry Truman.
October 13, 1968 Encores from The Bell Telephone Hour Donald Voorhees (narrator). Iturbi is interviewed and his past appearances on the show are highlighted, including Pequeña Danza Española, Clair de Lune, and the third movement of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1. Others: The Bell Telephone Orchestra.
Date unknown Great Music Carlton KaDell (announcer), Walter Huston (host). Jose Iturbi and his sister Amparo introduce the program and perform Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin.
Date unknown played throughout 1958 Easter Seal Campaign Disk Jockey Interviews. Easter Seals syndication. Sponsored by: Easter Seals fund appeal. Three different four minute open-ended interviews. Jose Iturbi discusses his movies and his enjoyment of all kinds of music. Others: Guy Lombardo, Jaye P. Morgan,