{"title":"NY Fair 2027","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"7300-cocteau-jean-1889-1963-weill-kurt-1900-1950-mon-premier-voyage-tour-du-monde-en-80-jours-inscribed-with-a-drawing-to-kurt-weill","title":"Cocteau, Jean. (1889–1963) [Weill, Kurt. (1900–1950)] Mon premier voyage (Tour du Monde en 80 jours)  - INSCRIBED with a Drawing to Kurt Weill","description":"One of the 305 copies on alfa, this copy unnumbered and inscribed by the author on the half title: \"à mon grand et cher Kurt Weil [sic] Jean [star] et à son admirable femme\" [the singer\/actress, Lotte Lenya (1898-1981)] and with a drawing of a figure in bust profile. With a \"prière d'insérer\" on pink paper, errata sheet, and clipping of a 1937 article on the book by  Auguste Bailly. Pages uncut, a very fine copy of historic importance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKurt Weill left Germany for Paris in 1932 after his music had been labeled \"degenerate\" by the Nazis. Soon after his arrival there, he encountered the multitalented French writer-artist Cocteau, who served as aesthetic spokesman for Les Six, a group of young composers strongly influenced by Erik Satie.  He asked Cocteau to write the libretto for his \"Seven Deadly Sins\" but Cocteau declined and Weill turned to his long-time collaborator Bertold Brecht instead. Cocteau and Weill briefly planned to collaborate on a Faust opera, but this was abandoned in the early stages of discussion.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093320519839,"sku":"7300","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Cocteau_Weil_sig_drawing_1.jpg?v=1722187274"},{"product_id":"7727-krupa-gene-signed-drum-to-a-fellow-skin-beater","title":"Krupa, Gene. (1909 - 1973) Signed Drum \"to a fellow skin beater.\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsed top drum, 13.25 in diameter x 11 height, signed and inscribed on the head in fountain pen by the American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style:“to Billy—My sincere best to a fellow skin beater, Gene Krupa.” In good condition, with the expected wear, scuffing, and chipping from use, a detached tension rod, the bottom skin torn, staining to the head, mildly affecting the signature, and the signature and inscription a bit light in some areas. An extraordinary signed item from the musician whose vision changed the role of drummer forever and who helped standardize the jazz drum kit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093333921951,"sku":"7727","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Krupa_Signed_Drum_7727.png?v=1722187358"},{"product_id":"10637-liszt-franz-1811-1886-engraved-wooden-case-and-bone-token","title":"Liszt, Franz. (1811–1886) Engraved Wooden Case and Bone Token","description":"Two items thought to have been owned by the composer-pianist. Original circular wooden canister, possibly a piano wire case, with inscription 'Cantemus Domino, Dr. F. Liszt. XIX Aug. 1866' (on the lid) and '9 Juni 1867' (on the inside of lid). Diameter 10 cm. Together with a small round token made of an ivory-like or fine bone material, decorated with a miniature engraving and painting enhanced with sand and tiny clippings of grass depicting two angels and the letter 'L' interwoven with a cross.  The token with a matching -sized round glass, diameter 2.5 cm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn August 10th of the year 1866, the composer completed the 'Tristis est anima mea'  from his oratorio 'Christus' (composed 1862 - 1866) and it is conceivable that the text on top of the lid 'Cantemus Domino, Dr. F. Liszt. XIX Aug. 1866' was carved to commemorate that occasion. We have been unable to locate any event, letter or anything else specifically for August 19th of that year. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe other date inscribed on the case, June 9th of the following year, was the day after the premiere of Liszt's 'Hungarian Coronation Mass', in Budapest.  Following the 1867 Compromise between Austria and Hungary, Liszt composed a festive Mass. Yet it took concerted action on the part of Hungarian musicians and public figures, as well as the personal intervention of the Empress Elizabeth, to have his „Hungarian Coronation” Mass performed, (instead of a work by a Viennese court composer), at the coronation of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elizabeth as King and Queen of Hungary, at the Church of Our Lady (Matthias Church) in Buda on 8 June 1867. The performers were from Vienna, and Liszt was only present as a member of the audience in the gallery. It was only two years later that Liszt was able to conduct his Mass in Pest with Hungarian musicians and Ede Reményi was finally able to play the violin solos that had been intended for him from the start.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093427998879,"sku":"10637","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Liszt_piano_wire_case_10637a.jpg?v=1722187958"},{"product_id":"11416-calloway-cab-collection-of-presidential-and-political-acknowledgements","title":"[Calloway, Cab. (1907-1994)] Collection of Presidential and Political Acknowledgements","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn intriguing collection of five items from the American jazz singer, bandleader and dancer, with associated group of signed letters of provenance attesting that all of the items came directly from the family of Cab Calloway. As follows:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTyped Letter on White House stationery from President Bill Clinton to Cab Calloway, sending good wishes after a recent stroke (Calloway would pass away from the repercussions of that stroke). 1 page. July 13, 1994. Possible secretarial signature. Fine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCity of New York Certificate of Appreciation to Cab Calloway. Sept. 5, 1985, signed by Mayor Ed Koch, contained in original gilt-stamped Mayoral presentation folder. Together with a cutout lucite-mounted photograph of Ed Koch with Cab Calloway. Both fine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eState Legislative Resolution from the State of New York honoring Cab Calloway with \"Cab Calloway Day\", January 28, 1985 in Black History Month. Put into effect and signed by Senator John E Flynn. Two textured paper sheets, signed by Senator Flynn. Overall measures approx. 8 5\/8\" x 15\", contained in original blue velvet-textured presentation folder. Folder a little worn, else fine \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFour part invitation to a White House Luncheon from President \u0026amp; Mrs. Lyndon Johnson to Mr. \u0026amp; Mrs. Cab Calloway, mounted to rigid gold paper backing. October 10, 1967. Approx. 18\" x 15\". Light foxing to cards, chipping and wear around the mount edges. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his autobiography, \u003cem\u003eOf Minnie the Moocher and Me \u003c\/em\u003eCalloway recounts how at an evening reception in honor of Duke Ellington, Richard Nixon approached Calloway and told him \"My wife and I really like what you're doing, Mr. Ellington.\" But Cab did have a number of more fulfilling connections with Presidents over the years. In 1938, he and \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehis orchestra record \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"FDR Jones,\" c\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eomposed in honor of then President Roosevelt. Decades later, d\u003c\/span\u003euring the JFK presidential campaign, Cab recorded supportive radio spots, and, after his assassination, recorded\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\"History Repeats Itself.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eIn 1967,\u003cspan\u003e Calloway was invited to the White House and was among the 140 guests (including Gregory Peck) in a reception in honor of representatives of Kuwait. He attended further White House events under Nixon and was celebrated in official communications from Reagan and Clinton. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093453656223,"sku":"11416","price":2600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Calloway11416e.jpg?v=1778703261"},{"product_id":"11677-strauss-richard-hymne-an-die-liebe-3-hymnen-von-friedrich-holderlin-op-71-no-1-autograph-manuscript-sketch-leaf-signed-on-the-composer-s-60th-birthday","title":"Strauss, Richard. 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Central vertical crease, else fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe signed side of the sheet includes, from the 11th bar of the upper system, the text \"Von den Wettern überschattet Bebt entzückt der Mutter Brust\" [\"Overshadowed by the elements \/ The mother's breast trembles rapturously\"] and corresponding musical ideas to the final published measures 178 - 198 of \u003ci\u003eHymne an die Liebe. \u003c\/i\u003eThough the preceding and following measures do not seem to closely track the published score, this is evidently an early sketch for the identified work and the remaining musical ideas on the both sides are presumed to be discarded material from the same.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"The years 1919 and 1920 are blank in the catalogue of Strauss's works; in 1921 he composed only - some only! - the \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrei Hymnen\u003c\/i\u003e, Op. 71, to texts by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 20px;\"\u003eHölderlin with accompaniment for large orchestra, songs which anticipate the richness of the \u003ci\u003eVier letze Lieder\u003c\/i\u003e of twenty-seven years later and constitute a major work, sadly underrated and neglected. Part of the explanation is that he was composing the opera \u003ci\u003eIntermezzo\u003c\/i\u003e and that the Vienna Opera and travels abroad ate into his time. The first performance of Op. 71 was given in Berlin on 4 November by Barbara Kemp, with Gustav Brecher conducting.\" (Michael Kennedy, \"Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma,\" p. 210)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 20px;\"\u003eWe gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Nigel Simeone in the identification of this manuscript. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093461553311,"sku":"11677","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Strauss_MS_11677a.jpg?v=1722188177"},{"product_id":"11804-paganini-nicolo-1782-1840-24-capricci-per-violino-solo-dedicati-agli-artisti-op-ia-first-edition","title":"Paganini, Nicolò. (1782–1840) 24 Capricci Per Violino solo ... Dedicati agli Artisti. Op. Ia. - FIRST EDITION","description":"Upright folio. 46 p. Engraved. [PN] 403.Catalogo tematico p. 89; Fuld (rev. ed.) p. 455. A fine copy, with scattered light foxing, self-printed wrappers with some darkening around the edges and few small repairs to the borders. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe very rare first edition of Paganini's epoch-making classic of violin playing. The composer proudly announces the new era of the virtuoso on his title page,\"Dedicati Agli ARTISTI\"; that is, his work is explicitly aimed at professional virtuosos rather than amateur musicians. Paganini's Caprices became the inspiration for a new era in instrumental virtuosity in general, and provided well-known themes for many works modelled on them, including by Schumann (1831), Liszt (1851), Brahms (1863), Szymanowski (1918), Rachmaninov (1934), Lutoslawski (1941) and Lloyd Webber (1977).","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093465747615,"sku":"11804","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Paganini_Caprices_First_11804a.jpg?v=1722188203"},{"product_id":"12543-beatles-starr-ringo-b-1940-ornamental-incense-ball-from-the-collection-of-ringo-starr","title":"[Beatles] Starr, Ringo. (b. 1940) Ornamental incense ball - FROM THE COLLECTION OF RINGO STARR","description":"A beautifully carved wooden ornamental incense ball from the collection of former Beatle, Ringo Starr. Likely of Indian origin and measuring 3.5 inches in diameter, with opening of 1.25 inches. In fine condition. Obtained at the historic 2015 Julien's sale of the Property of Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach.\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eIn February 1968, The Beatles -- John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney -- travelled to Rishikesh, India in what is now Uttarakhand to learn transcendental meditation at the Chaurasi Kutia Ashram (now known as the Beatles Ashram) of Mahesh Yogi. The Beatles wrote around 48 songs during their seven-week stay there, including \u003cem style=\"\"\u003eOb-la-di, Ob-la-da\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem style=\"\"\u003eBack In The USSR\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem style=\"\"\u003eWhile My Guitar Gently Weeps\u003c\/em\u003e. It is possible that the present incense ball was obtained on that historic trip.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093489242271,"sku":"12543","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/12543_Incense_Ball_Ringo_Starr_02.jpg?v=1722188363"},{"product_id":"14826-van-gogh-vincent-gachet-paul-van-ryssel-paul-vincent-van-gogh-on-his-deathbed-original-etching-inscribed-to-the-artist-s-son","title":"[Van Gogh, Vincent. (1853–1890)] Gachet, Paul. [van Ryssel, Paul] (1828–1909) Vincent Van Gogh on his Deathbed - ORIGINAL ETCHING INSCRIBED TO THE ARTIST'S SON","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eOriginal 1890 drypoint etching showing the great painter on his deathbed, by the French physician and doctor known for treating van Gogh during the last weeks of his life. Cream wove paper, signed and titled in ink on the reverse, signed with initials 'P.R.' in the plate, inscribed in the plate, also with the artist's initial stamp to recto and verso, and signed inscription to the artist's son \"Pour Paul\" in the lower border. 6 5\/8 in x 4 3\/4 inches. Framed. From the collection of the artist's son, Paul-Louis Gachet (1873-1962). \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eOf the greatest rarity, this print was published in a small edition. We know of only three other impressions of the final state having appeared on the market in the last 25 years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003cspan class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_1785445316\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\"\u003e16th May\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, van Gogh admitted himself to the hospital in Arles, seeking help from Dr. Gachet. On \u003cspan class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_1785445317\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\"\u003e27th July\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e van Gogh shot himself in the head with a revolver. While still suffering from the emotional shock of Vincent Van Gogh’s suicide, Dr. Gachet appears to have done a quick charcoal sketch of the artist on his deathbed. There are two known versions of that drawing: one that was dedicated to Vincent’s brother Theo, who immediately showed it to his mother, and is now at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and another one presented by Paul Gachet’s son to the French National Museums.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe pain Dr. Gachet felt at the death of his beloved friend and patient is very visible, not only in the present image of Van Gogh on his deathbed but also, as Emile Bernard pointed out to Albert Aurier in a letter of 31 July 1890: “Dr. Gachet […] wanted to say a few words of homage about Vincent and his life, but he too was weeping so much that he could only stammer a very confused farewell...”. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a collector Gachet would eventually amass more than one thousand prints and half that many paintings and drawings by both celebrated and unknown artists of the day. He also considered himself something of an artist. His house had a studio with a printing press and he became an enthusiastic engraver, partly as a consequence of his earlier contacts with Honoré Daumier and other contemporary printmakers, among them Charles Meryon, Rodolphe Bresdin, Charles Jacques and Félix Bracquemond. He signed his works “Paul van Ryssel”, using the Flemish name of Lille as a surname. In the summer of 1873 Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro and Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaume all made prints in his studio. Gachet himself studied in 1872 and in September 1873 in the Paris studio of August Délatre, one of the foremost printers of the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOnly a few weeks earlier on the \u003cspan class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_1785445321\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\"\u003e15th June\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, Van Gogh had produced an etching entitled The Portrait of Doctor Gachet: L’Homme a la Pipe; little did Dr. Gachet know that he was to assume the role of artist in the very near future.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eBy producing an image of Van Gogh on his deathbed Dr. Gachet has provided us with the ultimate intimate portrait of the artist. It is an intense portrayal, heightened by the fact that we can clearly see Van Gogh’s left-side where he sliced off his own ear. It is a portrait which, even in death, shows us the scars of a tortured genius, who produced some of the most remarkable works of the late 19th century. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093563101343,"sku":"14826","price":18000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Vincent_Van_Gogh_on_his_Deathbed_14826a.jpg?v=1722188863"},{"product_id":"15668-dada-tzara-tristan-1896-1963-picabia-francis-1879-1953-festival-dada-mercredi-26-mai-1920-a-3-h-apres-midi-programme","title":"[Dada] Tzara, Tristan. (1896 - 1963) \u0026 Picabia, Francis. (1879 - 1953) Festival dada. Mercredi 26 mai 1920 à 3 h, après-midi. Programme.","description":"Handbill poster, printed in black on pale green stock, overprinted in orange with an elaborate dada mechanomorphic drawing by Picabia (and additional text). On the verso: catalogue of the Dada publishers and gallery Au Sans Pareil. 350 x 250 mm. (13 5\/8 x 9 3\/4 inches). Design by Francis Picabia and Tristan Tzara.  With expert archival repairs to a few tears, overall a very good example of this scarce and fragile handbill. Framed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe program is headlined in orange with the announcement “Tous les Dadas se feront tondre les cheveux sur la scène!” (\"All of the Dadas will have their heads shaved at the event!\"), though at the event the audience was so upset that the Dadas failed to follow through with this promise that they pelted the participants with tomatoes, rotten eggs, bread rolls, and, from one corner, apparently, veal cutlets!  Though there was no head shaving, the program did feature foxtrots played on the organ and Ribemont-Dessaignes's \"danse frontière” performed wrapped in a large cardboard funnel oscillating at its tip. The handbill advertises, among other elements of the program: “le sexe de dada,” “le célèbre illusioniste” by Philippe Soupault, “le nombril interlope, musique de Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, interprété par Mlle. Mar- guerite Buffet,” “festival manifeste presbyte, par Francis Picabia, interprété par André Breton et Henri Houry,” “le rastaquouère” by Breton, “la deuxième aventure de monsieur Aa l’antipyrine” by Tristan Tzara, “vous m’oublierez, sketch par André Breton et Philippe Soupault,” “la nourrice américaine, par Francis Picabia, musique sodomiste interprétée par Marguerite Buffet,” “manifeste baccarat” by Ribemont-Dessaignes, enacted by Soupault, Breton and Berthe Tessier, “système DD” by Louis Aragon, “je suis des javanais” by Picabia, “poids public” by Paul Éluard, and “vaseline symphonique,” by Tzara.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDocuments Dada 20; Dada Global 229; Almanacco Dada p. 607; Sanouillet 306; Motherwell\/Karpel 45, p. 111ff., illus. p. 179; Dachy p. 136 (illus. in color); Dachy: Archives Dada\/Chronique p. 422 (illus. in color); Düsseldorf 257; Zürich 443; Tendenzen 3.112; Pompidou 1472, illus. p. 431; Washington: Dada pl. 360","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093592101023,"sku":"15668","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Tzara_TristanPicabia_FrancisestivaldadaProgramme15668a.jpg?v=1733503817"},{"product_id":"18781-quintette-du-hot-club-de-france-leveque-gerard-hot-club-de-france-coupe-jo-bouillon-silverplate-christofle-trophy","title":"[Quintette du Hot Club de France] Lévêque, Gérard. 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Founded in 1934 by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli and active in one form or another until 1948 it was one of the earliest and most significant continental jazz groups in Europe, described by critic Thom Jurek as \"one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz.\" \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eThe trophy namesake, Jo Bouillon (1908-1984) was a prominent French composer, conductor and violinist. From 1936 to 1947, he directed the \"Jo Bouillon et son orchestre\" ensemble and as Joséphine Baker's fourth husband, he enjoyed prominence in the 1950s conducting and accompanying her on her tours.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093694009503,"sku":"18781","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Quintette_du_Hot_Club_de_France_Christofle_Trophy_18781a.jpg?v=1722189744"},{"product_id":"19108-cocteau-jean-stravinsky-igor-wooden-hand-torch-candelabra-sconce-from-the-stravinsky-collection","title":"Cocteau, Jean. (1889–1963) [Stravinsky, Igor. 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I do not know when Cocteau gave it; since their friendship dates to 1914, it could have been given early on during the French or Swiss period, or possibly during the Hollywood years.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093704954015,"sku":"19108","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Cocteau_Stravinsky19108_05.jpg?v=1722189815"},{"product_id":"21384-williwear-christo-jeanne-claude-smith-willi-pont-neuf-sur-la-seine-paris-tenue-bleue-1985-signed-by-christo","title":"[WilliWear] Christo. (1935–2020) \u0026 Jeanne-Claude. (1935–2009) \u0026 Smith, Willi. 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If the pink T-shirts designed for the artists' 1983 Miami Biscayne Bay project were right for scrappy South Floridians, the workers engaging visitors on the oldest bridge in Paris needed something more elegant. Smith designed a loose-fitting sky-blue smock, riffing on the iconic \u003ci style=\"\"\u003ebleu de travail\u003c\/i\u003e French work jacket, with matching trousers, the blue outfits playing off the tawny champagne of the bridge’s ruched material. Oversized pockets, hung low, could accommodate fabric samples and informational brochures. Like all of Smith’s clothing, it was comfortable and adaptable, for wearing with rolled sleeves or hiked legs or unbuttoned with an undershirt. It was a professionalizing uniform that allowed for maximum individuality. Interviewed at the time, Smith said: “I’m also looking forward to seeing if people can really work in the clothes. I could eventually make some real workwear. . . . Everyone likes the style so much I may put it on the spring line. It may be a new way to develop our artist-in-clothing project.” At one point, Christo showed him an advertisement in a Paris newspaper for one of the uniforms. The price: $1,000. Smith laughed and said, “Oh! Now I’m haute couture!”\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv grid-col=\"x11\" grid-pad=\"2\" style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv grid-col=\"x11\" grid-pad=\"2\" style=\"\"\u003e“My whole theory about design is to try to solve some of these problems,” Smith once said. “To help people through clothing to solve the problem of getting dressed.”\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe concern wasn’t limited to celebrities on their way to galas. He had devoted himself from the start, in the early seventies, to finding solutions within the reach of almost anyone. One way was to make his designs available as patterns through services like Butterick and McCall’s, a practice that spanned his entire career. He valued people who sewed their own clothes at home, as members of his family had done in working-class Philadelphia. He explained: “To be able to go and buy the fabric. Already you have one exciting purchase—you bought beautiful fabric—and you get excited about that. You might take it home and may not even buy the pattern for two weeks later. Then you go and buy something else which you are equally excited about which is the pattern. And then the excitement of putting it together. It’s like a whole different way of dressing than buying clothes. 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Framed to an overall size of 15.5 x 17.75 inches (39.3 x 45.1 cm.).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093782089887,"sku":"21454","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Duke_of_Orleans_Shadow_Box_Portrait_21454a.png?v=1722190318"},{"product_id":"23932-dietrich-marlene-beaton-cecil-marlene-dietrich-1935","title":"[Dietrich, Marlene (1901-1992)] Beaton, Cecil. 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He captured Marlene Dietrich on several occasions in a style that recalls classical sculpture; here, he sets off her sharp, sculptural features and marble-like skin with soft, painted fabrics and a delightfully gauzy dress. A painter and designer as well as a photographer, Beaton was known for finding or creating innovative backdrops for his sitters both inside and outside the studio.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ad-slot-container\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55753151414431,"sku":"23932","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Beaton_CecilMarleneDietrichsigned23932a.jpg?v=1755280080"},{"product_id":"23981-partch-harry-large-original-handmade-percussion-instrument","title":"Partch, Harry. 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He wrote much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit (43-tone) just intonation. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e Many of his instruments were acquired in 2014 by the University of Washington, Seattle and original examples are virtually unobtainable on the market.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlywood percussion instrument on metal triangular stand, three drum heads with different tonal properties, 30 x 13 x 4-1\/2 in., 40 in. with metal stand. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eProvenance: Gift from Harry Partch to his friend artist Gordon Onslow-Ford; by descent within the family. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSurface scratches and dents, stand with some surface rust, overall good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarry Partch created a music that by its nature led to the invention of a fantastic array of percussion instruments. Rejecting equal temperament and much of Western musical heritage, he developed a system based on Just tuning and conceived of a “corporeality” that demanded special instrumental resources. He spoke of himself as “a musician seduced into carpentry” and built sculpture-like instruments such as the Diamond Marimba, Bass Marimba, Cloud Chamber Bowls, Spoils of War, and Quadrangularis Reversum. His music, mostly dramatic, was influenced by, among other things, Chinese lullabies, Yaqui Indian music, Christian hymns, his experiences as a hobo, Greek philosophy and drama, and jazz. His large-scale dramas required that the percussionists become actor-dancers. Among his major works are “Delusion of the Fury,” “The Wayward,” “Revelation in the Courthouse Park” and “Oedipus.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"condition\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57879138697375,"sku":"23981","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Partch_HarryLargeOriginalHandmadePercussion23981aa.jpg?v=1755284365"},{"product_id":"24402-dietrich-marlene-half-smoked-cigarette-and-pill-bottle-ex-marlene-dietrich","title":"[Dietrich, Marlene (1901-1992)] Half-Smoked Cigarette and Pill Bottle - EX-MARLENE DIETRICH","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAn extraordinary pair of relics from the film and stage icon: a half-smoked cigarette from Dietrich herself, saved by her longtime assistant in one of her empty pill bottles.  Fairmont Hotel Pharmacy, San Francisco, CA. 12\/10\/73. From the collection of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Dietrich as the icon’s stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort. Sold together with a letter of provenance from the husband of Paul McMahon, Ralph Hodgdon. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAn extraordinary bit of association ephemera, from the collection of a true smoking icon.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe bottle was formerly used to hold Clindamycin (Cleocin), used to treat bacterial infections. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDietrich was still performing onstage in 1975 when the sad pantomime’s final act began: She fell into an orchestra pit in Sydney and broke her femur. She retired to her Paris apartment, and would leave it only a few times over the next seventeen years. She absolutely refused to be photographed, her old body a thing of shame to her. Younger stars such as Madonna—who idolized Dietrich and has followed much of her sad trajectory—tried to visit but were refused admittance. So were her friends: She would talk to them on the phone only. 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The front of the postcard contains an image for the 34th International Berlin Film Festival in 1984 and Nicholson has inscribed a rhyming poem to the verso reading, \"HDS- \/ Tokyo was fun- \/ Berlin had no sun- \/ Rome had some rain- \/ London press \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cu\u003eLIES\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cspan\u003e again- \/ Your Pal \/ Jack.\" Measures \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e4.25 x 6 inches (11 x 15 cm). Very fine, a remarkable item from the year in which Nicholson won his second Oscar, as best supporting actor in \u003cem\u003eTerms of Endearment\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the 1960s the two actors first arrived on the film scene in the most significant way, with Stanton appearing in \u003cem\u003eCool Hand Luke\u003c\/em\u003e and Nicholson in \u003cem\u003eEasy Rider\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Let the wardrobe do the character; just play yourself.’” The advice ended up playing a central part in how Stanton viewed his professional life, and Nicholson’s words became “the beginning of my whole approach to acting.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62650752925855,"sku":"25310","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/NicholsonjackTokyoWasFunAutographPoem25310a.jpg?v=1768849775"},{"product_id":"25871-dylan-bob-enormous-signed-photograph-to-his-manager","title":"Dylan, Bob. 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More recently remembered for his astonishing career as a film and television producer, he first achieved great success as a concert promoter and artist manager. Essentially starting the model of national touring, in 1970 he promoted the first national concert tour by the King, Elvis Presley. He also worked with such major artists as John Denver, Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, The Carpenters, The Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBob Dylan signed with Weintraub in 1978 after watching a Neil Diamond concert in Las Vegas, knowing that Weintraub managed the impressive event. He began a world tour beginning in Japan which continued through Europe and the U.S., in total performing 114 shows in front of two million people. Biographer David Morrell writes, \"We take this for granted now, but Weintraub's ability to organize these massive concerts made show-business history.\" \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eStreet-Legal \u003c\/em\u003eis the eighteenth studio album by Bob Dylan, released on June 15, 1978 by Columbia Records. The album was a serious musical departure for Dylan, who uses a large pop-rock band—complete with female backing vocalists—for the first time. \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62792253243551,"sku":"25871","price":12000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Dylan25871a.webp?v=1778705544"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/collections\/ny-fair-2027.oembed","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}