New York: N.p., Circa 1957-1959. Draft script for the 1959 play. Copy belonging to producer Stanley Chase, with his name and address to a sticker on the title page. The script contains the printed lyrics for every musical number, with dialogue and stage direction interspersed. Arlen's original 1946 musical, "St. Louis Woman," with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, was based on.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1961. Vintage publicity photograph of composer Henry Mancini from the 1961 film. With cropping annotations in ink and pencil on the verso, along with Mancini's stamp. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A bestselling paperback author who has recently moved into a small development in the California suburbs becomes the de facto relationship expert for.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Vintage borderless reference photograph of musician Burt Bacharach playing the piano and singing in a recording studio, circa 1970s. With a Columbia-Warner copyright stamp on the verso. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear to the corners.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1956. Vintage black and white photograph of composer Elmer Bernstein conducting an orchestra in rehearsal for the soundtrack to Otto Preminger's "The Man with the Golden Arm," circa 1956. With two stamps for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Bernstein worked as a......
New York: Chelsea-Candide Company, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 production of the play, noted on the title page as the "Playing Version."). "Candide" premiered at the Broadway Theatre on March 10, 1974, playing for 740 performances, closing on January 4, 1976. Annotation in holograph marker of copy number "#13" on title page and several annotations in holograph pencil throughout.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Original US program for the 1975 film, with a tipped-in British programme, four leaves, for the Variety Club of Great Britain charity premiere on March 20, 1975. Also included is a second US program for an invitation screening at TCF studios on March 1, 1975. Directed and written for the screen by Peter Bogdanovich, featuring.....
New York: Carl Fischer, 1957. Vintage flyer for a 1957 experimental music concert at the Carl Fischer Music Hall in New York City, featuring John Cage, William Masselos, Grete Sultan, and David Tudor performing pieces written for multiple pianos. Featured pieces include John Cage's "Music for 4 Pianos" and "Winter Music," Morton Feldman's "Extensions #4 for Three Pianos" and "Piece.....
Paris: Parc Film, 1964. Vintage borderless press photograph of actor Catherine Deneuve and composer Michel Legrand at the awards ceremony for the Louis Delluc Prize, given to the best French film of the year, which "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" received in 1964. With the stamps of ADP press agency and a French-language mimeo snipe on the verso. In addition to.....
Los Angeles: Arwin Productions, 1954. Vintage photograph of director (and key Sinatra arranger) Gordon Douglas and Frank Sinatra on the set of the 1954 film. Mimeo snipe and an studio stamp on the verso. A remake of the 1938 film "Four Daughters" directed by Michael Curtiz. Alex Burke (Gig Young) comes into the lives of the musical Tuttle Family and.....
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1969. Autograph note signed from composer Adele Franz to producer Daniel Selznick. The note, executed on Franz's stationery, noting that she is delivering herewith the LP soundtrack recording for an obscure play titled, "Long Time Between Loves," along with a script for same. Included is a photostat of Selznick's detailed response, in which he mentions his favorite songs on the.....
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France Italy: Euro International Film / Rome Paris Films, Circa 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the soundtrack recording sessions for the 1961 film, showing director Jean-Luc Godard, composer Michel Legrand, a visiting Serge Gainsbourg, and some other guy in the studio, drinking, smoking, and surrounded by women, which is pretty much how we always imagine them. With the stamp Radio Luxembourg.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Vintage borderless photograph of French-Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, filling his pipe with tobacco in front of his extensive, mounted pipe collection, circa 1940s. With the stamp of Omnium-Presse on the verso, along with a stamp noting the letter P, and cropping annotations in pencil. Honegger was best known as a member of Les Six, an alliance.....
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: Praeger, 1970. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Cage in 1971 to Ellsworth Snyder: "for Ellsworth Snyder, / with admiration and friendship / John Cage, Madison '71." Ellsworth Snyder and Cage were longtime friends. Snyder performed the composer's work on many occasions, perhaps most infamously at Cage's much-protested 1965 appearance at the University of Illinois: "At one point [Snyder] crawled.....
New York: Children's Songs, circa 1949. Original manuscript and typescript for "The Howdy Doody Show" theme song "It's a Howdy Doody World," created by and belonging to the song's composer Edward Kean, INSCRIBED by Kean in the margin: "From Edward Kean / to / the very special Scott Petersen man!," and further annotated by Kean in holograph ink. The listing also.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Vintage borderless press photograph of composer Michel Legrand, circa early 1960s. The photograph, which shows Legrand exiting a gate with a suitcase in hand, is somewhat prescient, as the first half of the 1960s would see him leap to international renown, both as a popular musician and a composer of the film scores for such French.....
N.p. N.p., 1972. Vintage borderless, oversize photograph of directors Sergio Leone and Henri Verneuil, and composer Ennio Morricone, conversing in what appears to be a screening room. With credit for photographer Vincent Rossell and the year in the holograph marker in the upper left corner of the recto. Rossell was the still photographer for Verneuil's 1973 espionage film "The Serpent,".....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1977. Vintage borderless photograph of director Wolfgang Reitherman and music director Buddy Baker working with a studio orchestra to record the soundtrack for "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" in 1977. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Baker worked as a composer for many.....
circa 1946. Original photograph of Charles Mingus, circa 1946. An early publicity photo, re-struck from the original negative, circa 1990. Michael Ochs Archives sticker and PPCM sticker on verso. Legendary jazz performer, composer, and bandleader, Charles Mingus' career spanned 4 decades and left a legacy universally lauded. A virtuosic double bassist and a proficient pianist and cellist, Mingus spanned a huge.....
New York: Arts at St. Anna's, 1991. Original program for a performance by the Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by David Alan Miller, held at The Town Hall in New York City on June 8 and 9, 1981. The performance featured four pieces: "Freeform" and "Shivering Air," composed by Glenn Branca, "Sanctus," composed by John Cale, and "The Forest," composed.....
Champaign, IL: Gate 5 Records, 1956. First and only pressing. Issue No. 6 in Harry Partch's self-released Gate 5 series, sold by mail order. INSCRIBED by Partch in 1960 to noted film scholar Amos Vogel on the rear flap: "For Amos Vogel / With all best wishes / Harry Partch / Feb 11 '60." A conceptual 10-inch EP, putting a road.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1957. Seven vintage black-and-white photographs of French actor Gerard Philippe, seen signing autographs at a record store. Included is a typed letter from J. Reboulieau at Cinedis, a short-lived film distributor in Paris, addressed to Christian de la Maziere, an impresario of press relations and former Waffen-SS soldier, detailing the included photographs, and noting "Hernandez" as the photographer.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Vintage double weight photograph of Cole Porter, circa 1940s, struck from the original negative circa 1950s. "TV Times" stamp on verso 8 x 10 inches. Light creasing in far corners, else Near Fine.
Shepperton: London Film Productions, 1949. Vintage reference photograph of director Carol Reed, music director Hubert Clifford, film editor Oswald Hafenrichter, and notably the composer of the film's soundtrack, Anton Karas, on the set of the 1949 film noir. With two printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, along with a studio stamp. An unemployed pulp fiction novelist travels to postwar Vienna.....
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.....
Rochester, NY: Eastman School of Music, 1983. Original program for a performance by Steve Reich at the Eastman School of Music on November 6, 1983 as part of the Meet the Composer series, featuring performances of "Clapping Music," "Vermont Counterpoint," and "Drumming Part I" by a quintet lead by Reich, and "Tehillim," performed by members of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.....
New York: New York University Press / Halifax: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1974. First Edition. First issue binding, without the UNIVERSAL EDITION notation on the spine, and without the added note about typographical corrections by Reich at the end of his Introduction. Association copy, inscribed by Steve Reich to Paul Fromm on the verso.....
New York: New York University Press / Halifax: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1974. First Edition, hardcover, issued simultaneously with the softcover. First issue, without the added note about typographical corrections by Reich at the end of his introduction. INSCRIBED by Reich in 1976 on the front pastedown: "For Denis Murphy / from Steve Reich.....
New York: Park Place Gallery, 1967. Vintage flyer for 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.....
New York: Carnegie Hall, 1979. Original poster for a WKCR Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Cale, Leroy Jenkins, The Model Citizens, and others. April 1, 1979. Fine condition, on archival linen. In the 1970s and 1980s, Carnegie Hall—as well as forward-looking radio stations such as WKCR and WNYC—hosted a number of important performances by.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1970. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1970 UK film, one with mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1937 collection of personal correspondence between Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his patron Nadezha von Meck, edited by her granddaughter Barbara von Meck and Catherine Drinker Bowen. Director Ken Russell's.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1950s. Vintage borderless photograph of composer and electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhauser, circa the 1950s. With holograph pencil annotations on the verso. 12 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine.
N.p. N.p., 1934. Vintage borderless photograph of composer Igor Stravinsky, 1934. With holograph annotations 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.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First UK Edition. INSCRIBED by Stravinsky in the year of publication on the title page: "To Ralph and Mirandi / With love / I. Stravinsky / [illegible] Nov-60." Also inscribed by Craft on the title page: "Love / Miranda and Ralph / Paris / Nov. 26-60." A companion volume to "Conversations with Igor Stravinsky," published.....
New York: Theoretical Records, 1979. Vintage flyer advertising the release of the band's lone 7" titled "Theoretical Record," featuring "My Relationship" b/w "Don't Let Me Stop You." SIGNED by founding member Glenn Branca on the recto. Formed after Branca's previous band Theoretical Girls dissolved, The Static was the first outfit to play Branca's music exclusively and introduced his three octave.....