Jazz Pizzicato was first recorded June 29, 1939 by Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston ... asked me to make a symphonic setting of Harvard songs for the 25th reunion of his class and to conduct ...

The story of the song's use in "Martha" suggests itself ... The Irish Suite was first performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler conductor, on June 6, 1947 in Symphony Hall, Boston." ...