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Mercury Living Presence Boxed Set CD38 van55

Howard Hanson conducts the Eastman Rochester Orchestra
Douglas S. Moore - The Pageant of P.T. Barnum, for orchestra 
John Alden Carpenter - Adventures in a Perambulater, suite for orchestra
Bernard Rogers - Once Upon A Time (5 Fairy Tales) for orchestra
Burrill Phillips - Selections From McGuffey's Reader for orchestra

Collectors for so many, many years have yearned for original vinyl issues of these, that there was a yelp for joy heard across the US when Mercury got around to reissuing them.
The old performances in all their unapproachable, glorious sound, hold up compellingly over the years (what a first-rate orchestra the E-R was!) They're all three tremendously good works, among the best of their creators, full of the burgeoning creativity of the American compositional mind.