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The song sheet is "Published by permission of John H. Duley, of Perham's Opera Troupe". Perham is possibly the same person as Josiah Perham of the "Ethiopian Troupe and Great Burlesque Company", a blackface troupe. Good .
This music festival presented choral and orchestral music, operas and ballets. Among the works presented in the 1935 season were Rameau's "Castor and Pollux"; Rossini's "Mose"; the ballet "Dafni e Chloe" starring Lorcia and Lifar, with choreography by Fokine and scenery by Bakst; Pizzetti's "Orseolo", Verdi's "Masked Ball" and his "Requiem" with Pinza, Caniglia and Stignani; Mozart's "Il Ratto dal Serraglio" and his "Requiem"; Rino Alessi's play "Savonarola, directed by Jacques Copeau, with incidental music by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; Bellini's "Norma" and Gluck's "Alceste". Conductors included Vittorio Gui, Tullio Serafin, Bruno Walter and Fernando Previtale. The program notes and synopses are printed in both Italian and English.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco [1895-1968], who became a well-known composer of film music, was considered one of the most significant Italian composers of his generation and was performed by such artists as Gieseking, Heifetz, Piatigorsky and Segovia. Although he was critical of Mussolini's regime, he knew how to take advantage of the opportunities it offered and he wrote the incidental music for "Savonarola" at Mussolini's request. He was a friend both of Carlo and Nello Rosselli, the regime's principal opponents [both assassinated in 1937], and of Alessandro Pavolino, who later became a fanatical fascist leader.
On the inside front cover of the book, the owner has penned an "Operatic Diary" listing 31 operas attended, with theatres, dates, composers and in some cases conductors.
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Signed in full by both the conductor Rene Pollain and the violinist Efrem Zimbalist on the front cover.
The concert included performances of Beethoven's "Symphony in C Minor", Debussy's "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune", Mendelssohn's "Concerto in E Minor for Violin and Orchestra", and Rimsky-Korsakoff's "Introduction and Cortege des Noces from 'Le Coq d'Or'".
The concert violinist and composer Efrem Zimbalist Sr. (1889-1985) was also conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music. Born in Russia, Zimbalist was first violin in his father's orchestra by the age of 9. He studied under Leopold Auer at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, winning a gold medal and Rubinstein Prize before graduating in 1907. Zimbalist debuted in Berlin in 1907 and then London before pertofming in the U.S. in 1911. In the 1912 concert marking Leopold Stokowski's first appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra, Zimbalist played the Glazunov Concerto. He began teaching at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music in 1921, becoming its director in 1941. His own compositions include the "American Rhapsody", a tone poem "Daphnis and Chloe", Fantasies on themes from Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Golden Cockerel" and Bizet's "Camen", a composition for viola and piano titled "Sarasateana" and an opera "Landara".
Born in France Rene Pollain (1882-1940) directed the orchestra of the municipal theatre in Paris from 1904 to 1914. Pollain came to the U.S. in 1918, becoming assistant conductor for Walter Damrosch at the New York Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the New York Symphony Orchestra at the Chautauqua Festivals of 1919, 1920, and 1921, and the Worcester Festivals of 1922, 1923, & 1924. When the New York Symphony merged with the Philharmonic in 1928, Pollain became first Violist. He held that position until 1935. From 1929 until 1939 he was director of the New Jersey Orchestra. Good .
First American edition, translated from an Italian edition. Very good .
Program for "A Holiday Musicale and House-Warming" organized by Opera Music Theatre International and The Jersey State Opera. The two organizations are joined by Leroy Neiman and Celeste Holme "in honoring the world renowned opera diva Lucia Albanese and in celebrating a New Beginning for Grand Opera in New Jersey". The ceremony takes place at The Leroy Neiman Opera/Lab Theatre in Newark Symphony Hall and features "a dedication of the Neiman Wall of Fame, displaying performing arts-oriented works of America's foremost artist." Soprano Elizabeth Carter of the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera takes part in the Musicale.
Licia Albanese [1909-2014] was an Italian-born American operatic soprano, especially noted for her portrayals of the lyric heroines of Verdi and Puccini. She was a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera from 1940 to 1966. Very good .
Pauline l'Allemand gave the first American performance of Delibes' opera "Lakme" at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on November 17, 1886. This quotation from the opera, which was sung in English, was thus penned two days after the opening.
Born in Syracuse, NY, Pauline l'Allemand [1856-1944) made her debut as an operatic soprano in Stratton's "The Fairy Grotto" at Wieting Opera House in her home town. She subsequently studied singing in Dresden, Stuttgart and Paris. After successfully touring in Europe, she returned to America, performing "Lakme" in Philadelphia. After her attempt to create her own opera company failed, she retired to a farm in Black River Falls, Wisconsin with her grown son. They lived in extreme poverty and both were eventually pronounced insane and in 1920 were remanded to the Mendota State Hospital for the insane in Madison, Wisconsin. L'Allemand was memorialized in the cult classic "Wisconsin Death Trip" by Charles Van Schaick and Michael Lesy.
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A rare souvenir program. The concert included performances of works by Beethoven, Sarasate, Brahms, Paganini, Purcell, Chopin, Verdi, Bach, Wagner, Strauss, Rossini, Leo Blech, etc.
A labor union, the American Guild of Musical Artists was founded in 1936, the year preceding this program, to represent opera singers who were being forced into unfair contracts. The guild soon expanded to include ballet dancers and other dancers, dance companies, opera directors and backstage employees, as well as figure skaters. At the time of the Guild's formation Lawrence Tibbett was President and Jascha Heifetz 1st Vice-President. In 1937 Howard Chandler Christy created the AGMA's logo, represented on the cover of this souvenir program, which he gifted to the guild. Good .
The title page reads as follows: "THE MANDOLIN-GUITAR METHOD. The System Makes a Player of You. Simple - Speedy - Satisfying". Very good .
Includes an essay entitled "The Police and the 'Golden Age of Saturn'" and playful biographies of Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers. Good .
The first book in this series. Fair .
First edition. Very good .
Limited edition of 500 copies. Good .
The copy on the verso of the photograph states that this card is a souvenir of the 75th performance at the Park Theatre, Boston of Rice's comic opera 'Venus' with libretto by Charles Alfred Byrne and Louis Harrison and music by Gustave Kerker. As the star, Camille D'Arville is listed separately at the foot of the cast list. She plays Prince Kam, son and heir of Poom, the Grand Llama of Thibet. The photo is a head-and-shoulders portrait of a distinctly womanly D'Arville wearing an embroidered cap on her mop of short, curly hair and a doublet with puffed sleeves, elaborately jeweled around the collar.
Born Neeltye Dykstra in the Netherlands, Camille D'Arville studied music in Amsterdam and made her debut there in concert in 1877. She appeared in London, toured the English provinces and came to the United States in 1888 under the management of J. F. Duff.
The photographer, Charles F. Conly [1846-1892], was best known for his theatrical photographs. Very good .
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