New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth, 30 cm, 160 pp, black & white gravure photographic illustrations throughout. Inscribed and signed by Martha Graham on half title: "To Jack Utzinger with best wishes for his career and his life in it. Martha Graham." Lacking DJ, cloth binding and endpages toned, spine extremities chipped, overall good condition.
62. Grainger, Percy. (1882–1961). Room-Music Tit-Bits. Nr. 4, Children's March: "Over the hills and far away," Two Pianos
New York: G. Schirmer. [1920]. Two identical copies of the full 2-piano score. Folio. 29 pp. [PN] 29397. Original tan wrappers, printed in green and orange. Both copies in excellent condition.
Superb 8 X10 inch black and white portrait of Grainger seated at the piano. Boldly signed “Heartily yours, Percy Grainger, 1941.” Some minor rippling and light silvering at edges, overall very good.
An interesting trio of concert programs, showing the diverse performing activities of the spirited Australian composer and pianist. The first program (May 21, 1915), shows Grainger in performance with the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra under the baton of Richard Hagemann, in a program which included solo piano performances of arrangments by Grainger himself and which featured Grainger as soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto. The Second program (March 22), shows Grainger in joint recital with the "Dutch Nightingale," mezzo-soprano, Julia Culp. The final program (May 3, 1917) shows Grainger again in joint recital, this time with May Peterson. All three in fine condition, with mounting remnants on verso of each, the final program including a contemporary newspaper review which has left its mark on the inside of the program.
A fine and scarce pair of AMQS from the American songwriter's most famous songs. Boldly penned in black fountain pen ink on a 3.75 X 9 inch page. Each AMQS is inscribed, signed and dated 11/4/41. Read More...
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An unusually harsh typed letter, signed and addressed to a collector who had apparently made unreasonable demands on the composer when requesting autograph material! One page, dated 1986 and in fine condition.
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An autograph signed envelope and an original CDV photograph of the Romantic Norwegian composer, most celebrated for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" (which includes Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King), and for his collection of piano miniatures, Lyric Pieces. Read More...
London: Rt. Birchall. c. 1790. Title; 2 - 46 pp. Engraved, no PN. Later black cloth boards. 7 pages with tape repairs to margins, otherwise in very good condition throughout.
Presumably an unauthorized edition, based on Smith No. 14 with the music reduced to to the Bass and Treble clefs only.
London: I . Walsh. [c. 1739]. Upright folio. Title; 2 - 48 pp. Engraved. Bound in full modern crimson cloth, title-page lightly stained, otherwise in very fine condition throughout. The same as the first Walsh issue, except for the omission of price and the alteration of the "instrumental parts" advertisement on the title-page. Hirsch III.234; Smith no. 3.
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"Overture in the Occasional Oratorio." Keyboard score, 6 pp. [no publisher imprint] c. 1785. In very fine condition.
Santa Fe: Soundings Press. 1987. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. 143 pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white photos, musical scores, reproductions of letters and with an attractive cover design by Mark Bulwinkle. Boldly signed by Harrison in red ink on the title page. Very good condition.
A fine original Maurice Seymour photograph, signed by the sturdy tenor who was a Broadway star and whose recording of the "The Ballad of Davey Crockett," sold over 3 million copies. 8 X 10 inches, creasing along right margin, else fine.
Superb item from the great violinist, who has boldly signed on the cover of a 1946 Carnegie Hall recital program. In very fine condition, 19.6 X 26 cm.
An unusual signed item from the great violinist, who has boldly signed on the inside cover of a Victor record album set (4 LPs), featuring the Sonata in E flat Major for Violin and Piano by Richard Strauss. Front joint of cover weak, else in fine condition.
New York City, Feb. 18 [1909]. Addressed to "Madame Tagliapietra" [Teresa Tagliapietra-Carreño]. 2 pages, attached, both recto. 11 X 13 cm. In very fine condition. Read More...
An unusual photograph of the daughter of the great American Golden Age contralto - Hester Homer, shown as a young girl, seated on a rock. A doubleweight photograph, probably printed c. 1920. 18 X 25 cm.
A nice trio of programs from the great contralto. All from recitals at Smith College, dated 1913, 1915, 1917. Mounting traces on verso of each, small tears at top margins, otherwise fine.
New York: Alan Hovaness. 1938. First edition. Full score reproduced from holograph, 11 p. 28 cm. Original illustrated wraps, wrappers somewhat creased, else in fine condition. Composed in 1936, revised in 1938.
A scare copy of one of Hovaness's early works, composed while he was a student of Frederick Shepherd Converse at New England Conservatory in Boston, MA.
A superb halftone photograph on the cover of a pamphlet, signed and dated 1944 with a four-measure AMQS by the prolific American composer of Armenian descent. Boldly penned in black felt tip ink and in very good condition. 3.75 X 8.75 inches. Read More...
Wien-Leipzig: Universal Edition. [1918]. First Edition, variant issue.. Jenufa. Ihre Ziehtochter. Oper aus dem mährischen Bauernleben in 3 Akten v. Gabriele Preiß. Deutsche Übersetzung v. Max Brod. Musik v. L. Janacek. Für die Wiener Hofoper textlich eingerichtet von Hugo Reichenberger. Nr. 6004. 62 pp. Read More...
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A bold fountain pen signature by the great Czech composer, on an off-white sheet, dated 11.6.1896. Janacek's signature appears beneath a list of other names on a document relating to his work at the Brno Organ School which he founded in 1881 and at which he remained as its director until 1919. 9.5 X 15 inches, almost completely separated at horizontal crease along center, not affecting Janacek's signature.