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Hofmann, Josef (1876-1957). "PIANOFORTE CONCERTS BY JOSEF HOFMANN": AN ORIGINAL PROGRAM FOR ONE OF CHILD PRODIGY JOSEF HOFMANN'S FIRST AMERICAN CONCERTS, TOGETHER WITH AN AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY THE PIANIST. (Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1887).

- Octavo, 8 inches high by 5 inches wide. Softcover, pictorial self-wraps with a charming illustration depicting the child prodigy seated at the piano. 4 pages. There are a couple of very tiny tears to the edges. Folded, else very good. <p>Though Hofmann was actually 11 when he made his debut, the program cover states "Josef Hofmann, The Wonderful Child Pianist and Composer, Aged 10". The cover of this concert produced under the direction of Messrs. Henry E. Abbey and Maurice Grau, further promotes the young pianist as: "Josef Hofmann, The Greatest Genius on the Pianoforte since the days of Mozart".<p>Josef Hofmann (1876-1957) made his American debut at the MET on November 29, 1887. This program is for a concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on December 16, 1887. He performed the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 with an orchestra conducted by Adolph Neuendorff. He also performed works by Chopin and Mendelssohn.<p>Together with an 11 word AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED in full by Josef Hofmann dated March 14, 1900, acknowledging the receipt of a check.<p>The program and signed note are attractively matted with a magazine portrait of the young pianist.

[SW: MUSIC; CLASSICAL; PIANO; PIANIST; JOSEF HOFMANN; ORIGINAL PROGRAM; NINETEENTH CENTURY; CONCERT; BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC; AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED; PIANOFORTE CONCERTS BY JOSEF HOFMANN; ANS; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; ADOLPH NEUENDORFF; HENRY E. ABBEY; MAURICE GRAU; CHILD PRODIGY; 19TH CENTURY.]

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(Greco, Jose). JOSE GRECO AND HIS SPANISH BALLET, With Nana Lorca, Carmen and Justo Quintero ("Los Salaos"), Luis Rivera, Antonio del Castillo, Nelida Imperio, Paco Doniz, Alba Merce, Antonio Jaen, Susana Miranda, Paco Alonso, (Special Guest Artist) Teo Santelmo. Ricardo Modrego, Guitarist; Juan Jiminez, Guitarist; Musical Direction Roger Machado; Managing Director John F. Nonnenbacher. New York: Dunetz and Lovett, [circa 1967].

SIGNED BY JOSE GRECO AND HIS DANCERS - Quarto, 12-3/4 inches high by 10-5/8 inches wide. Softcovers, bound in pictorial blue, green & black stapled wraps. The covers are lightly creased and detached from the text block. 24 pages, profusely illustrated throughout with portraits of the dancers and photographic illustrations of the dances. The corners of the pages are very slightly creased. Very good. <p>A wonderful copy signed by Jose Greco across his portrait, and also signed by Nana Lorca, Carmen Quintero, Luis Rivera, Antonio del Castillo, and Paco Doniz across or next to their respective portraits.<p>Additionally laid in at the front is a 10 inch high by 7 inch wide 4-page program for the March 18th, 1967 performance of Jose Greco and his company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Center for the Performing Arts.

[SW: DANCE; STAGE; PERFORMING ARTS; JOSE GRECO; SPANISH BALLET; DANCERS; SIGNED; ILLUSTRATIONS; PROGRAM; AUTOGRAPHS; COMPANY; NANA LORCA; CARMEN QUINTERO; LUIS RIVERA; ANTONIO DEL CASTILLO; PACO DONIZ; AUTOGRAPH; SIGANTURES; PORTRAITS; BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC; CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS.]

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No Author. THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA PROGRAMS,EIGHTY-NINTH SEASON, 1988-1989. Philadelphia: Academy Of Music / Resume, 1989.
Glossy black buckram cloth, bright gold lettering in bright red spine panel. A handsome volume! MUSIC. This is a bound volume of the 1988-89 Concert Programs of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccado Muti, Music Director, William Smith, Associate Conductor. There are 17 programs (Stagebills) , including advertisements, program notes, personnel, articles, and future events. In addition there is: a list of the Guest Conductors, Soloists, and Assisting Organizations ; a list of the First Performances by the Philadelphia Orchestra, including a World Premiere in the 88-89 season; a list of the Works Performed during the 1988-89 Season; and the dates, repertoire and performers of the Chamber Music Concerts (4th Season) . Loosly laid-in is a card from Theodore A. Burtis, President, The Philadelhia Orchestra, presenting this book as a thank you for a Philadelphia Orchestra Association Member's "generous contribution. " ; 9-1/2" Tall.

Hardcover, Very Good+; Binder's defect hides the page numbers of the table of contents in the gutter. Binding and contents are almost as new. This is a heavy book and is not eligible for Priority or Air under standard fees..

[SW: Philadelphia Orchestra; Yevgeny Mravinsky; Norman Carol; Yuri Temirkanokv; Gunther Herbig; Pinchas Zukerman; Radu Lupu; Charles Dutoit; Laura De Fusco;,]

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ANONYMOUS: Broadside announcing a "Lecture on the Telephone by Professor Himes. Rheem's Hall, Thursday, June 13th [1878]"

1878. Printed broadside. Very good condition apart from some mild offsetting, a small water stain in the top right-hand corner, and slight discolouration of the paper due to age. 20 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches. A rare broadside advertising a lecture accompanied by one of the first ever public broadcasts of music over the telephone. On June 13, 1878, Charles Francis Himes, amateur photographer and erudite Professor of Natural Sciences at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, delivered a lecture on the nature and function of the newly invented telephone, which had been patented only two years before by Alexander Graham Bell. As this historical broadside publicizes, Himes' lecture included a demonstration of the telephone's startling capabilities in which music was broadcast through the telephone line by a Professor G. H. Barker at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Unlike its revolutionary predecessor the telegraph, the telephone made remote audio communication feasible and can thus be considered a precursor of the modern radio. During the 1870s and 1880s, its unprecedented capabilities were exploited, and the device was used to disseminate news and entertainment on an experimental basis. Although the first music concerts transmitted by telephone date to the late 1870s, regular, on-going entertainment broadcast services were not truly established until the 1890s in Paris, London and Hungary. Among the first on-going services in America were the Telephone Herald in Newark, New Jersey and Tel-musici in Wilmington, Delaware, both of which were established in the early 1900s. Tel-musici operated by subscription and distributed phonographic music over the telephone lines. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Charles Francis Himes (1838-1918) studied at the New Oxford Collegiate and Medical Institute in Adams County, Pennsylvania before transferring to Dickinson College in 1853. After graduating from Dickinson in 1855, he taught natural science and mathematics at a number of institutions including the Wyoming Conference Academy, Baltimore Female College, and Troy University. In 1863, Himes enrolled in the graduate program at the University of Giessen in Germany, from which he earned a PhD in 1865. He was then appointed Professor of Natural Sciences at Dickinson College, where he remained until his retirement in 1896. Himes was a devoted faculty member at Dickinson, serving as school president between 1888 and 1889 and secretary and treasurer to the Board of Trustees from 1868 to 1896. He significantly enhanced the college's science curriculum and founded its first Scientific Society in 1867. His academic pursuits were not, however, limited to his position at Dickinson, and he was an active member of numerous external societies including the American Philosophical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Cumberland County Historical Society, and the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, where he frequently lectured. In 1858, Himes began to pursue his burgeoning interest in photography and consequently joined the Pennsylvania Photographic Society and Amateur Photographic Exchange Club in the early 1860s. In addition to exhibiting some of his work, he taught photography classes during the summers at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland.

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