Golden Lyre Series

This short-lived series (1952-1957) contains only 16 albums, all but the last being part of the American Music Festival Series. The recordings feature Howard Hanson and Frederick Fennell conducting mostly modern music by American composers. At the beginning of 1957 Mercury deleted the series from their catalog and incorporated it into the MG-50000 series by recataloging MG-40000 through MG-40015 as MG-50073 through MG-50088, retaining the same cover art in most cases. *Label profile from http://mercury.lacyway.com/