This collection commemorates the Bell System American Orchestras on Tour program, in which 30 major symphony orchestras (underwritten by the Bell System) performed before nearly two million people in 280 cities. It consists of four Long Playing records and includes the following performances:

• Boston Symphony Orchestra–Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra–Wagner: Prelude to Die Meister singer, Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
• The Cleveland Orchestra – Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel
• Los Angeles Philharmonic – Debussy: la Mer
• New York Philharmonic – Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
• The Philadelphia Orchestra – Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4, “Italian”
• Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra – Hayden: Symphony No. 94, “Surprise”