CBC Concert Hour

CBC Concert Hour is a Canadian music television series which aired on CBC Television from 1954 to 1955.

CBC Concert Hour
Genre	music
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
Production
Producers	Noel Gauven Pierre Mercure
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Network	CBC Television
Release	30 September 1954 (1954-09-30) – 30 June 1955 (1955-06-30)

Premise

This Montreal-produced series featured classical music, concentrating particularly on chamber music. Artists featured included Maureen Forrester, Ernest MacMillan, John Newmark, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Andrés Segovia and Joseph Szigeti. Boyd Neel and Wilfred Pelletier were among the conductors seen on CBC Concert Hour. Irving Gutman was the series stage director.^[1]

Scheduling

This hour-long series was broadcast Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 30 September 1954 to 30 June 1955. An earlier episode was broadcast on 27 June 1954.