Editing Philadelphia Orchestra (section)

===Firsts===
The Philadelphia Orchestra boasts a number of significant media firsts. It was the first symphony orchestra to make electrical recordings (in 1925). It was the first orchestra to make a commercially sponsored radio broadcast (on [[NBC]] in 1929) and the first to appear on a television broadcast (on [[CBS]] in 1948). The Philadelphia was the first American orchestra to make a [[digital recording]] of the complete Beethoven symphonies on [[compact disc]] (in 1988), and the first major orchestra to give a live [[cybercast]] of a concert on the internet (in 1997). In 2006, the orchestra was the first to offer downloads of music from its own website without a distributor.<ref name=Stearns2006>{{cite news| author=David Patrick Stearns| title=Philadelphia Orchestra enters the ear-bud age| url=http://articles.philly.com/2006-09-21/news/25414024_1_philadelphia-orchestra-orchestra-president-wolfgang-sawallisch| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525213351/http://articles.philly.com/2006-09-21/news/25414024_1_philadelphia-orchestra-orchestra-president-wolfgang-sawallisch| url-status=dead| archive-date=May 25, 2014| work=The Philadelphia Inquirer| date=September 21, 2006| access-date=July 19, 2013}}</ref>

In other firsts, in 1999, under [[Wolfgang Sawallisch]], it became the first American orchestra to visit [[Vietnam]]. In 2006, the orchestra appointed [[Carol Jantsch]] principal tuba as of 2006–2007,<ref name="tubist">{{cite news| author=Peter Dobrin| title=Breaking the brass ceiling: A female tubist| work=The Philadelphia Inquirer| url=http://articles.philly.com/2006-02-26/news/25409146_1_philadelphia-orchestra-tuba-orchestra-administrators| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102195145/http://articles.philly.com/2006-02-26/news/25409146_1_philadelphia-orchestra-tuba-orchestra-administrators| url-status=dead| archive-date=January 2, 2016| date=February 26, 2006| access-date=July 19, 2013}}</ref> the orchestra's first ever female principal tuba player and the first in a full-time American orchestra.