Bernstein Fancy Free, conducted by the composer (Decca, 1944)
Bernstein: Fancy Free - Ballet Music
Ballet Theatre Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein
Recorded June 2, 1944, in New York City, on Decca matrices 72204 through 72210. Issued in 1946 as Decca set DA-406 (records 23463 through 23466 - four ten-inch records in automatic sequence). The filler, which appears as Side 1 on the 78 set, is Billie Holiday’s recording, made two years later on March 13, 1946, of Bernstein’s song “Big Stuff,“ on which the Pas de Deux of the ballet is based. This recording has