Talk:London Symphony Orchestra

sponsors

Something must be said about the fact that the LSO has sunk so low as to accept sponsorship from the devil, the tobacco companies 180.216.102.61 (talk) 03:55, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Untitled

I quite like linking the dates it is very useful when building the year in music pages to look at 'what links here' and then see that Abbado became principle conductor of the LSO, if you were working on 1979 for instance. SimonP 15:00 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Well, I don't feel very strongly about it (not today, anyway), so if you want to put them back, I won't remove them again. But I do think it looks ugly, and I think they're of very limited interest for the reader. --Camembert

I probably over linked the first time, you can cover every year for the conductors' by linking to just one of the two. SimonP 15:07 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Yeah, it looks much better now. Thanks Simon. --Camembert

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It might be nice to have a link on this page to the other symphonies in London. Rmhermen 17:00 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Good idea - I've added five that I can think of. I'm sure there are others. --Camembert

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Was looking at Londons Symphony Orchestra page, and it looks like that's all this is. Anyone else agree with the merge suggestion?

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There is a redirect from the LSO page to the London Symphony Orchestra. I don't know how to set it up myself, but there should be a disambiguation page for the Local Shared Object entry.

Principal conductors

Why is there a principal conductors section when it just duplicates exactly what is in the template of the same name? I'll remove the section for now, it can be discussed here, if needed. I'll also preserve the table on this page Lethe 21:28, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

although i am agnostic on the subject for now, i replaced the section on principal conductors as the issue should be discussed before article is changed. although the data is indeed somewhat redundant, it should be noted that the template only indicates begin dates, and do not reflect periods of vacancy. --emerson7 | Talk 05:23, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Principal Conductors

2007-present Valery Gergiev 1995-2006 Colin Davis 1987-1995 Michael Tilson Thomas 1979-1987 Claudio Abbado 1968-1979 André Previn

1965-1968 István Kertész 1960-1964 Pierre Monteux 1951-1954 Josef Krips 1932-1935 Hamilton Harty 1930-1931 Willem Mengelberg

1919-1922 Albert Coates 1915-1917 Thomas Beecham 1912-1914 Arthur Nikisch 1911-1912 Edward Elgar 1904-1911 Hans Richter

Links

I think its wrong to link each notable recording to the LSO website, where one can proceed to purchase. we are not a sales engine for record sales, no matter how high minded the operation is. i see this talk page is not very active. I will probably remove the links in the next week, unless someone argues successfully for some other plan.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 17:14, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Why so widely used?

It would be interesting to know why LSO is so widely used in TV, Movie, Games, non-classical music etc. It seems that if a rockband used a orchestra, if a tv-game used a orchestra or latest if Apple used an orchestra it always is LSO. Why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.226.157.61 (talk) 09:55, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

'Recordings' section not representative

The Recordings section of this article is currently heavily biased towards film music and commercial (pop) initiatives which, although very notable (see for instance the query above), could scarcely be considered the major artistic recording achievements of this orchestra. I've temporarily created a 'Further reading' section so as to add Richard Morrison's LSO biography to the article: although not currently cited as a "source", I feel it must be one of the most comprehensive best available.--MistyMorn (talk) 09:35, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Just a query: Stuart, Philip. Decca Classical, 1929–2009, accessed 7 July 2012 is cited as a source in the LSO recordings section, but not the same author's 938-paged specific London Symphony Orchestra Discography, 1913-2009 (pdf file) (3.4 MB) available at http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/download/download.html. Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 14:31, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

infobox

The infobox is wrong - none of these have been members. If correct, the box would need to have 100s of names in there (even the current complement would have 80 or so names (http://www.lso.co.uk/players)). This is particularly ironic for this orchestra, one of the few which had a book published consisting entirely of the thoughts of the players themselves... Cg2p0B0u8m (talk) 15:52, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

I so agree, but the infobox zealots are not to be budged. A victory for theology over common sense, I fear. I think they'd be outraged at the idea that "members" should actually list the members. And which of the zealots, I wonder, would bother to keep the list up to date from month to month from the LSO's website. Heigh ho! Tim riley (talk) 19:14, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Have removed the non-members from the "members" category. Have done the same chez BBC Symphony Orchestra. If Cg2p0B0u8m likes to extend this removal of misinformation in other articles about symphony orchestras I shall applaud heartily. Tim riley (talk) 19:31, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

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