Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra


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The result was delete--Ymblanter (talk) 07:28, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra

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This article has gone unsourced since 2006. I have tried to find sources for the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra in its 1974-1979 incarnation and found nothing at all, reliable or otherwise. I am not even sure that this article is not an outright hoax. —Tim Pierce (talk) 20:33, 20 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete as a likely hoax. Of the linked concertmasters and violinists, only Israel Baker's article mentions this alleged orchestra at all, and his obituaries don't. One links him to the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the other two to chamber music in LA. Ilkka Talvi is likewise connected to the chamber orchestra (which doesn't share the same period of existence with this supposed orchestra). The only hits I get are for an orchestra which took the name in 2005. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:01, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment There are a number of newspapers that use the term, but they all seem to be mistaking it for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. See this article referencing Zubin Mehta as conductor of the "Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra" and these articles that reference Otto Klemperer.  I would suggest making the page into a disambiguation page of the different orchestras in Los Angeles as it is very plausible search term. Ravendrop 22:40, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Every reference I have found in a book, magazine article or web page about the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra is either referring to the early twentieth-century precursor to the Los Angeles Philharmonic or mistaking it for the Los Angeles Philharmonic or the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. As to the latter, I found references, including in Gramophone of all places, to Carlo Maria Giulini and Neville Marriner conducting the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. They actually conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, respectively. Syek88 (talk) 10:09, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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