Robert Hood Bowers was an American conductor represented in the Pristine catalogue through Haubiel’s Karma, recorded in 1928.

The release places him with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra in a rare American orchestral document from the early electrical recording era.

Bowers’s page is justified by the specificity of the recording and the unusual repertory it preserves.

He gives the Haubiel shelf a clear conductor’s name in a corner of American symphonic history that might otherwise be too easily lost.