Columbia Symphony Orchestra
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This article is about the CBS Symphony Orchestra, which performed classical music. For the CBS Orchestra, a band led by Paul Shaffer, see Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band.
The Columbia Symphony Orchestra was an orchestra formed by Columbia Records strictly for the purpose of making recordings. In the 1950s, it provided a vehicle for some of Columbia's better known conductors and recording artists to record using only company resources.[1] The musicians in the orchestra were contracted as needed for individual sessions and consisted of free-lance artists and often members of either the New York Philharmonic or the Los Angeles Philharmonic, depending on whether the recording was being made in Columbia's East Coast or West Coast studios.