Paris: N.p., circa late-1950s. Vintage borderless double weight photograph, circa the late 1950s, depicting world renowned Spanish cellist and composer Pablo Casals playing the cello, while his wife Marta looks on in the background. Rubber stamps for photographer Helene Jeanbrau, the Dalmas Photography Agency, and the International Magazine Service, with light holograph notations in pencil and blue pencil on the.....
Redding, CT: C.E. Ives, 1922. First Edition. A self-published volume of songs by Charles Ives, selected from a volume published earlier the same year, titled "114 Songs." Like "114 Songs," this was printed for distribution among the composer's friends, and judging from the small number of copies in world libraries (OCLC locates 12 libraries with copies, whereas 106 are listed...
Redding, CT: Charles Ives, 1922. First Edition. Second issue, in publisher's blue cloth with titles and rule in gilt on the front board and spine, and with pages 37-39 printed, and no dust jacket as issued. Fine condition. A collection of avant-garde short pieces in every imaginable format (marches, violin sonatas, group sing-a-longs, etc.) written by Ives using the poetry...
New York: Soho News, 1981. Original poster for a performance by Steve Reich and Musicians, Philip Glass, Sun Ra, John Ashbery, Paul Jacobs, and numerous others on May 27, 1981. An important moment for modern classical music. This concert coincided with the unveiling of a new music programming policy at New York's WNYC, at that time the "broadest commitment to...
New York: John Gibson and Multiples, 1972. Limited edition LP and printed score, one of 500 copies (this being no. 65) SIGNED and numbered by Reich. A live recording of a performance at The Town Hall, New York City, originally released in 1971. One of Reich's early masterpieces, "Drumming" employs the composer's trademark phasing technique and functions as a transitional...
New York: Park Place Gallery, 1967. Poster advertising an early performance by Steve Reich at Park Place Gallery in New York on March 17, 18, and 19, 1967, also featuring Max Neuhaus performing and "distributing" a new piece called "BI-PRODUCT" (currently listed on Neuhaus' website as "By-Product," in contravenance of the poster). In 1967 Steve Reich wrote a prototype piece...
New York: Carnegie Hall, 1980. Original poster for an early, seminal performance by the Steve Reich and Musicians Ensemble, premiering what amounted to the second phase of his compositions for large ensembles. "Music for a Large Ensemble" and "Octet" were both built on ideas formed in Reich's first "large ensemble" piece, "Music for 18 Musicians" (1974), experimenting with what the...
London: Sotheby's, 2008. Fine and unread in illustrated wrappers as issued. Perfect bound. Illustrated profusely in color throughout. Includes auction items from Stravinsky, Vivaldi, Verdi, Satie, Beethoven, and more.
London: Sotheby's, 2008. Fine and unread in illustrated wrappers as issued. Perfect bound. Illustrated profusely in color throughout. Includes auction items from Handel, Stravinsky, Verdi, Strauss, and more.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Vintage one-sheet poster for the 1972 film, featuring vignette artwork by the renowned Bob Peak. Based on the life of composer Johann Strauss and his family, and a remake of Julien Duvivier's 1938 musical. 27 x 41, folded. Very Good plus, with a few tiny tears, and rubber stamps and notations on the verso in holograph ink.
N.p. N.p., 1934. Vintage borderless photograph of composer Igor Stravinsky, 1934. With holograph notations in pencil and photo agency stamps on the verso. Igor Stravinski and his family moved to Paris from the south of France in 1934, the year they became French citizens. He lived in Paris for five years before moving to the United States. During those years...
Garden City: Doubleday, 1960. First Edition. SIGNED by Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft on the page following the half title. The third book collaboration between the two, a series of recollections by Stravinsky in the form of interviews by Craft. A companion volume to Conversations with Igor Stravinsky," published one year earlier. Craft is an award winning conductor and musicologist...
Paris: Alphonse Leduc, 1968. First printing of this edition, and first edition in English. A brief but intense study of Messiaen's organ music, aimed at an advanced audience, with illustrations of staves throughout. Small octavo. Small, neat owner name on the front wrapper (and again on the second leaf, containing the preface), else easily Very Good plus in lightly rubbed...