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Hollywood's Super Orchestra

Adrian Edwards
Monday, February 20, 2017

For all the talk of the 'top five' America orchestras, it was a Hollywood studio that gave birth to one of the greatest of them all, writes Adrian Edwards

Alfred Newman conducts the Twentieth Century Fox Orchestra in the Prologue of the film How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). Photo: Photofest
Alfred Newman conducts the Twentieth Century Fox Orchestra in the Prologue of the film How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). Photo: Photofest

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