Promenade Concert [SEP] original network
Promenade Concert
Promenade Concert is a Canadian music television series which aired on CBC Television from 1953 to 1956.
Premise.
This series featured the Promenade Concert series in Toronto, recorded at Varsity Arena. These concerts were also broadcast on CBC Radio.
Scheduling.
This hour-long series was broadcast as follows (times in Eastern):
Lauritz Melchior, and sopranos Kirsten Flagstad, Lotte Lehmann and Florence Easton.
With a title change to The General Motors Promenade Concerts, the program moved April 1937 to the Blue Network for a series of hour-long thematic shows with male/female leads, including one show of Victor Herbert music with Jan Peerce and Rose Bampton. Broadcast on Sundays at 8pm, this series continued until June 1937.
As General Motors Concert, the final 13-week series brought together radio's first concert stock company on October 3,