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The Allan Hancock Foundation Archive

Sound Recordings

Under the auspices of the Hancock Foundation, KUSC began broadcasting concerts, lectures, and news in 1946. The concerts and lectures were broadcast from the auditorium in the Hancock Foundation Building where they were captured on glass radio transcription discs. The classical recordings included performances of classical masters such as Mozart and Bach, but also contemporary composers including Ingolf Dahl (a member of the faculty of the USC School of Music), Sergei Rachmaninoff, Hector Villa Lobos, Ernst Toch, and William Grant Still. Performers included Loren Powell, Isla Lora Detter, Catherine Donaldson, Stephen De'Ak, John Robert Crown, the Brodetsky Ensemble, and the Hancock Ensemble (with Allan Hancock often performing).

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American Music Festival opening concert, USC Trojan Band performing Ingolf Dahl's Music for Five Brass Instruments, 1947-04-25
Hancock Ensemble performs The Three Maries by Hector Villa Lobos, 1943-06-13 Hancock Ensemble, 1943-06-13, side B. Hancock Ensemble, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1943 June 13, 8:00-8:30 p.m., Hancock Foundation, broadcast by KHJ, Mutual Don Lee Broadcasting Company. Hancock Foundation. Rehearsal. The three Maries [As três Marias], W411 (piano) (arranged for instrumental ensemble) / Hector Villa-Lobos.http://cdm15799.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll82/id/24935/rec/4
Hancock Ensemble performs 2 excerpts from Troubled island (opera) (arranged by William Grant Still for instrumental ensemble)
Brodetsky Ensemble records Ernst Toch's String quartet no. 9, op. 26, C major
Hancock Ensemble perform, studio, Los Angeles, ca. 1935-1955
Hancock concert hour, 1948-09-29. Program