Signed halftone photograph of the important English conductor, together with an original 1948 concert program from a performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha, conducted by Sargent. Sargent is shown examining a score in a portrait photograph clipped from a program, and has signed boldly across the foot. The program (12 pp., February 7, 1948) includes the full text to Coleridge's oratorio. Photograph tipped to a mount, in fine condition; program with some toning and one tear, overall very good. Photograph mounted to 4.75 x 6 inches (12 x 15.3 cm), program 8 x 10 inches (20.1 x 25.5 cm).
Signed halftone photograph of the German conductor and composer who led the Hamburg State Opera, the Berlin State Opera and later the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. On a single sheet extracted from a London concert program, also featuring a smaller image of pianist Denis Matthews below. Another hand has dated at the head: January 21, 1954. Right edge rough; signature slightly smudged; overall in very good condition. 5.25 x 8.25 inches (13.5 x 21 cm).
Autograph signature from the German conductor and composer, known for his 37-year tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, together with a small signed clipped halftone photograph. Stock has signed boldly on a trimmed piece of manuscript paper, and again in white ink on the photograph, adding "Cordial greetings!" The photograph has been tipped to the right of the signature. Slight toning; in fine condition overall. Total size 8 x 3.5 inches (20.2 x 8.7 cm).
Two typed letters from Walter Toscanini, son of the great conductor, to a Lillian Edmonds. December 29, 1950 and July 16, 1959, each 1 p. In the first letter, Toscanini returns a score "together with General Eisenhower's letter" and regrets that his father "is not reading new scores and strange as it may seem he has never orchestrated any music," also thanking Edmonds for a Christmas gift. In the second letter, two years after Toscanini's death, his son advises Edmonds that "for the moment, we have refused every proposal to make a film on the life of my father. My father was a modest man, who wanted to sleep the eternal sleep in peace, and you can readily understand why we have no desire to go against his wishes." Folding creases; overall very fine, together with one original envelope. 8.5 x 11 inches (21.7 x 28 cm).
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Walter, Bruno. (1876–1962). "How could I be expected to prepare these giant pieces in so few days with any other orchestra?" - Autograph Letter
An interesting autograph letter from the great conductor, discussing details of upcoming concerts in Paris. London, May 18, 1929. To a Herr Hoffmann, Walter writes (translated from the German): "What I reported after Berlin was not mistaken. London on January 28/29 is firm. Thank you for the travel dates—as I've said, my cousin can take care of that. Champs-Elysée Tristan or Walküre impossible unless with the orchestra of the Opéra. How could I be expected to prepare these giant pieces in so few days with any other orchestra? I'd suggest three concerts in Paris (Mahler's 2nd, Verdi Requiem, Mozart evening—or classical program), one concert in Cannes and in Monte Carlo, that's five evenings right there." 2 pp. on letterhead of the Waldorf Hotel. In very fine condition. 4.5 x 7 inches (11.3 x 18 cm).
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[Conductors]
[Wood, Henry. (1869-1944)]. Collection of Materials relating to the Promenade Concerts
An interesting small archive of notes from the collection of the English conductor best known for his association with London's Promenade Concerts. The materials include a handwritten document titled "Promenade Concerts Timings, Seasons 1937, 1938 & 1939 (To 1st Sept. 39)," which contains lists of repertoire for the concert series. The handwritten register contains lists of orchestral repertoire and each piece's length in minutes under the headings: Overtures, Symphonies, Pianoforte Concertos, Violin Concertos, Concertos for Solo Instrument, Suites & Rhapsodies, Miscellaneous Works, Wagnerian Excerpts, Arias, and Choral Works. 22 pp., pages almost completely detached, overall very good. 8 x 12.75 inches (21 x 32.5 cm). The register includes two later inserted typed documents, one with a further repertoire list and one listing the sheet music supplied to the BBC for use in the Proms of 1945, dated July 26, 1945. Read More...
AMQS in the hand of the German conductor and composer known for his operas and operettas. He has penned two measures for piano and signed boldly below on a small album leaf. 7.5 x 4.75 inches (19.3 x 12.3 cm).
Original advertising card for the Pernod Pavilion at the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, featuring a photograph of the great singer and dancer in a feathered costume. The text on the recto refers to her famous song "J'ai deux amours," here suggesting that those two loves were "Paris" and the popular Absinthe "Pernod Fils," while the verso advertises that at the pavilion "Josephine Baker, the great star of the Casino de Paris, will sell (books and records) to benefit the Ouevres Coloniales." 2.5 x 5 inches (6.5 x 13 cm). Read More...
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Baker, Josephine. (1906–1975). The Original Charleston. Musique de Cecil Mack et Jimmy Johnson dansé par Joséphine Baker dans l'Hyper-Revue des Folies Bergère "La Folie du Jour" ...
Paris: Editions Francis Salabert. [1926]. First Edition thus. Quarto. Original bifolium sheet music with pictorial covers, letterpress recto only. Lightly toned with fold slightly rubbed; seller's stamp to the cover; overall in fine condition. 10.5 x 13.75 inches (27 x 35 cm). Uncommon; only 3 copies listed by Worldcat (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Biblioteca Comunale di Trento, Zentralbibliothek Zurich). Read More...
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Autograph letter from the American composer, lyricist, and pianist, the author of the 1921 Braodway musical Shuffle Along and a composer in every genre from ragtime to contemporary Broadway musicals. August 4, 1977. Writing to an assistant professor at the Eastman School of Music, Blake reminisces about his last performance there: "I played the Eastman School Music Theatre in 1919 - Sissle and Blake. We were there July 27th 1919. While we were there my mother died. And shall never forget that date. Paul Whiteman was in my Dressing Room, when [my] partner Noble Sissle came in a [sic] handed me a telegram with the star on it. I knew my mother had passed in Baltimore. When I told Paul my mother has passed he said to me The Show Goes Just the Same. That is an old saying with the Showmen: the show goes on just the same. Sincerely, Eubie Blake." A touching letter from the important jazz composer, then aged 90, who earned his greatest fame by reviving the ragtime genre in the 1970's. Penned in black ink on his ASCAP letterhead, with two holograph corrections in red ink. 8.5 x 11 inches (21.5 x 28 cm).
Signed photograph of the American pianist, composer, and educator known for his genre-bridging style and long career in jazz. He is shown as a younger man in a profile portrait looking downwards, and has signed at the lower right. Slightly wrinkled, but overall very good. 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20 cm).
Postcard of the legendary country singer "enjoying the scenery on a break from a tour," signed on the verso by Cash. Slight edge wear; overall very fine. 6 x 4 inches (15.2 x 10.1 cm).
Three original photographs of the great composer and bandleader with his orchestra in 1947 and 1950. Two small original photographs show the group performing onstage in 1947, one viewed from in front of the stage, the other from behind the horn section. A larger original press photograph shows Duke conducting the band, apparently in a casual outdoor performance in Paris, 1950. Dated and stamped on the verso with remnants of a press caption to the press image; one corner crease and some light edge wear. Overall fine. 4.5 x 3.5 inches (11.5 x 8.6 cm) and 7 x 5 inches (18 x 13 cm).
Signed colorized photograph of the masterful American jazz musician and clarinetist, the "King of Swing." He is shown holding his clarinet and has signed and inscribed to "Marilyn," apparently the wife of one of his band's tour managers. Slight ink blot at the upper left; light overall toning and some corner wear; overall very good. 8 x 10 inches (20.4 x 25.5 cm).
Signed 8 x 10 inch glossy Murray Korman promotional photograph of the legendary jazz singer, shown leaning on her hands and adorned with her trademark gardenia flowers. She has signed and inscribed at the lower left. N.d. [1945]. Small stain and smudge affecting inscription, tiny pinhole to upper margin, scattered creases and wear, overall very good. 8 x 10 inches. Read More...
An extraordinary collection of five Japanese pressed LPs, each signed by the primary artist while on tour in Japan 1973-78, and including an especially rare signed copy of Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue." Read More...
Autograph letter from the Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer to the great jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan. On a postcard of the Municipal Theater in Rio, dated June 10, 1976, Jobim writes: "My darling Sass, I've been missing you so much. How are you & Marsh[all Fisher, Vaughan's partner and manager] & everybody? I've been looking for this card a long time. Here is your 'work' in Rio, for you to show to your friends. By the way, I guess you know you were the last show at it, before it closed to be repaired, and it'll remain closed for one more year, they say. Here everything's OK, with one bad news: now, to leave the country, one has to leave US $1,200, during one year, at the Bank of Brasil (no interests or monetary correction), and our middle class, the only ones they hit, is furious, trying to do something against it! I only wrote to tell you that I love more each day! Don't forget me! All the best! xxxx Antonio Carlos." Rare. Read More...
Gerry Mulligan's autograph lyrics for his song "Jeru," together with a group of handwritten instrumental parts to the song. The lyrics are written in pen and pencil over three sheets of lined 8.5 x 11 notepaper, with one strike-through in the same pen and one insertion in another hand. The parts included are labeled "Gerry," "Bass," "trpt," "Jeru Two," (16 measures apparently for trumpet, written on the opposite page to the trumpet part), and "Background for solos," each 1 p. in pencil on 9.5 x 12.5 and 8.5 x 11 manuscript paper. Also included is a facsimile of a lead sheet with melody and chords to the song, also apparently in Mulligan's hand. Instrumental parts with some smudges, pencil and pen corrections, and light signs of use; overall fine. Lyrics with toning, otherwise very fine. Read More...
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[Jazz & Song]
[Politics]. The Democratic Jazz Party
An interesting if obscene piece of political ephemera, bearing the title "The Democratic Jazz Party" and opening to reveal a moving tableau of a donkey sexually mounting an elephant from the rear. Partially detached at fold; toning, stains, and wear; moving parts still operational! Overall good. 6 x 4 inches (15 x 10 cm).
Uncommon original boxing-style concert poster from a performance of Nina Simone and Herbie Mann at the Stepan Center at Notre Dame University, on February 22, [1964]. As part of the college tour Ford CARavan of Music, Simone and Mann performed with the Moonshiner and Ron Eliron. 14 x 22 inches. A few small tears and stains to edges, else in fine condition. Read More...