CBC Concert Hour explained

Genre:	music
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Channel:	CBC Television
Num Seasons:	1
Producer:	Noel Gauven Pierre Mercure
Runtime:	60 minutes

CBC Concert Hour is a Canadian music television series which aired on CBC Television from 1954 to 1955.

Premise

This Montreal-produced series featured classical music, concentrating particularly on chamber music. Artists featured included Maureen Forrester, Ernest MacMillan, John Newmark, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Andrés Segovia and Joseph Szigeti. Boyd Neel and Wilfred Pelletier were among the conductors seen on CBC Concert Hour. Irving Gutman was the series stage director.^[1]

Scheduling

This hour-long series was broadcast Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 30 September 1954 to 30 June 1955. An earlier episode was broadcast on 27 June 1954.

External links

• Web site: CBC Concert Hour . Blaine . Allan . . 1996 . 7 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150628230158/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/CBC.html . 28 June 2015 . dmy-all .

Notes and References

1. Web site: CBC Concert Hour . John . Corcelli . April 2002 . Canadian Communications Foundation . 7 May 2010 .