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Just like the RCA Victor and Columbia Symphony Orchestras stateside, the Country wide Philharmonic Orchestra (sometimes “of London,” sometime not) was a nom du disque. It grew from the eponymous RCA Orchestra located in London that producer-arranger-conductor Charles Gerhardt (1928-1999) constructed after 1960. After many years at American RCA as …

Gerhardt was the first conductor to take care of film soundtracks very much the same as great concert music. He re-recorded the music with a specialist orchestra, thereby stimulating awareness of the countless composers composing for the moderate. He begun to play the piano at age five and had been …