the orchestra was again listed as the Centennial Symphony and the conductor not identified, the narrator, actor Richard Hale, was. Koussevitzky rerecorded the piece in Tanglewood with Eleanor Roosevelt narrating during the summer of 1950 on magnetic tape; originally issued on a ten inch LP and three 45 rpm records, it has never been reissued officially by RCA in spite of the popularity of the Camden disc with Hale. Hale was also the narrator for Arthur Fiedler's 1953 RCA Victor recording of the same music with the Boston Pops Orchestra. RCA Victor reissued several other historic orchestral recordings on its Camden label with spurious names to avoid having them in direct competition with newer recordings by the same artists on the upscale Red Seal label. Notable premieres In concert Alexander Scriabin, Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Moscow, 2 March 1911 Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Paris, 19 October 1922 Arthur Honegger's Pacific 231, 1923 Sergei Prokofiev, First Violin Concerto with Marcel Darrieux as soloist, Paris, 18 October 1923 Prokofiev, Second Symphony, Paris, 6 June 1925 Arnold Bax, Symphony No.2, Boston, 13 December 1929 Prokofiev, Fourth Symphony, Boston, 14 November 1930 George Gershwin, Second Rhapsody, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Boston, 29 January 1932 David Diamond, Symphony No. 2, Boston, 14 October 1944 Béla Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Boston, 1 December 1944 Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring (suite) Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1945 Samuel Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Eleanor Steber as soloist, Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1948 Leonard Bernstein, The Age of Anxiety, Leonard Bernstein as soloist, Tanglewood, 1949 On record Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Boston Symphony Orchestra, October 1930 Jean Sibelius, Seventh Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra, HMV, London, 1933 Richard Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1935 Roy Harris, Third Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1939 Hector Berlioz, Harold in Italy with William Primrose as soloist, 1946 Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring (suite), Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1946 Notes and references Notes References External links Discography: Young, Edward (1990). ARSC Journal Part I: 20: 45–129 and Part II: 20: 241–265. Serge Koussevitzky at the Koussevitzky Music Foundations Serge Koussevitzky at the Koussevitzky Recordings Society Serge Koussevitzky concert notes at the American Symphony Orchestra Serge Koussevitzky biography, bach-cantatas.com / Turangalîla-Symphonie A film about Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie. commissioned by the Koussevitzky foundation. Sergei Koussevitzky Time magazine cover 10 October 1938 1874 births