Title: A Handsome Black & White Portrait of the Great Conductor Leopold Stokowski Conducting from a Podium at the Empire State Music Festival in Ellenville, New York.
Description: Ellenville, New York: July 18, 1957. 1957. - A powerful 14 inch high by 11 inch wide photograph by Emmerich Gara depicting the great conductor Leopold Stokowski standing tall at the podium. Attired in a tuxedo, the conductor depicted in profile at the left edge of the image looks down & out at his orchestra. His right hand is raised as he seduces music from the orchestra. Photographed by Cellist Emmerich Gara, with his name & address stamped on the verso of the photograph. Signed by Gara in pencil on the verso. Fine.
Leopold Stokowski conducted his Symphony of the Air orchestra at the Empire State Music Festival in Ellenville, NY on July 18th, 1957. The concert featured a performance of Igor Stravinsky's controversial "Canticum Sacrum ad Honorem Sancti Marci Nominis", with was composed but two years before. The American premiere took place in Los Angeles on June 17, 1957 and was conducted by Robert Craft. This performance was the East Coast premiere. The concert concluded with a performance of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana".
Emmerich Gara (b.1901, d.1963). Born in Vienna, Austria in 1901, Gara established lifelong careers as a portrait photographer and professional cellist. Before the outbreak of the Second World War he and his wife emigrated to the United States, where he was hired as cellist for the NBC Orchestra led by Arturo Toscanini. He performed with the orchestra (later called The Symphony of the Air) until his death.
From his seat in the front row of the orchestra Gara was in the unique position to photograph all the great conductors and soloists who appeared with the orchestra during this extraordinary period of musical activity. His subjects were captured in performance, rehearsal, and in candid moments during recordings and while socializing.
Gara's action portraits were used for record covers, for the Book of the Month Club and in articles in Time, Life and other major magazines around the world. Very good .
Keywords: MUSIC; ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH; SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER; AUTOGRAPH; EMMERICH GARA; CELLIST; LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI; CONDUCTOR; COMPOSER; PIANIST; CONCERT; CONDUCTING; EMPIRE STATE MUSIC FESTIVAL; ELLENVILLE, NEW YORK; SYMPHONY OF THE AIR; CLASSICAL MUSICIAN; PO
- Book number: 94702
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