Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Columbia Symphony Orchestra was a collective term for various records by Columbia Records orchestra for the purpose of recordings.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera and the NBC Symphony Orchestra were on the one hand put together to allow you to shoot free of subsequent license claims of the orchestra to record sales in New York. It also made recordings for example, with Bruno Walter ( 1954-56 ) or Leonard Bernstein.

From 1957, the name was also used for an orchestra that had been put together specifically for and by Bruno Walter to make new recordings in stereo, after at Columbia fear of a loss of meaning had monaural recordings. It consisted of members of the Hollywood film orchestras, and for the most part those of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.