Vintage original photograph of the spectacular creative team: Stephen Sondheim, lyricist; Arthur Laurents, author; Harold S. Prince (standing) and Robert E. Griffith, producers; Leonard Bernstein, composer, and Jerome Robbins, director and choreographer. 10 x 8.25inches. Dated 09-09-1959 on the verso and stamped by the photographer, Friedman Abeles.
Original 8 x 10 inch photograph, showing the great dancer/choreographer demonstrating a move on the set of the West Side Story film. Signed by the photographer, David Bean, on the verso. In fine condition.
Original 11 x 14 inch black and white doubleweight matte Philippe Halsman photograph of Robbins coaching dancers for the original production of West Side Story. Stamped by by the important photographer on the verso and dated 1959. Small edge tears at upper left and lower right, otherwise fine.
A remarkable signed photograph, inscribed from one legendary jazz drummer to another! 8 x 10 inch original doubleweight glossy photograph, inscribed by Wettling across his Paul Whiteman All American bass drum: "To Roy Knapp - World's greatest drum teacher - Geo. Wettling." In very fine condition, a remarkable item. Read More...
Attractive Austrian album with signed pages dated 1921 - 1940 and including autographs from some of the greatest conductors and singers ever to appear at the Vienna State Opera. The album made of attractive burgundy velvet over boards, with an elaborate brass cartouche on the front cover and a brass clasp. In fine condition throughout, all of the important signatures in ink, mostly one/page. 12.5 x 19.5 cm. Read More...
Unusual 8 x 10 inch doubleweight photograph, signed by the composer and playwright who wrote the book, score and lyrics for "The Music Man" and the score for "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." Oblong photograph of Willson standing at a keyboard in an NBC studio, one hand playing a chord and the other jotting notes on musical manuscript paper. Two other men are shown standing behind the piano, one apparently sending a message via Morse code and the other [NBC engineer, Oscar Berg] writing Morse signals on a large open musical score poster on the wall marked "The Towers / by Meredith Willson." Signed in blue ink by Willson: "73's for my good pal 'fergy' Sincerely Meredith Wilson [1-measure AMQS] 4/8/35 San Francisco." Signed additionally in black ink: "73's for RDF my partner in crime / Oscar Berg." Mounted to another page, in very fine condition. Read More...
Magnificent bust-portrait Dupont cabinet photograph of the masterful violinist. In very fine condition.11 x 16.5 cm.
Carl Flesch called him "the most outstanding and individual violinist I have ever heard in my life," and he was the dedicatee of many major works from Debussy, Saint-Saens, Franck, Chausson and others.
Rare AMQS from the masterful violinist on a large page together with a signed mounted card and early original photograph of the great Belgian cellist, Jean Gérardy. Read More...