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Title	Autographed portrait of Alfred Wallenstein and his wife, Virginia.
Description	Cellist and conductor Wallenstein, and his wife, pianist Virginia Wallenstein, with their dog, leaning against a gate in front of their home. A Pontiac "Woodie" station wagon is in the background. Monochromatic image printed on card-stock. Hand-written, in red ink, on the photo: "Holiday greetings from the Wallensteins -1941-".
Date	1941
Subject	Concerts--California--Los Angeles Photographs--Portraits Signatures (Writing) Publicity photographs Musicians Musicians--Autographs Violoncellists--United States Conductors (Music) Music directors Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles, Calif.) Women pianists Wooden fences Woodies (Automobiles)
Subject - Name	Frankel, Bessie Bartlett, 1884-1959 Wallenstein, Alfred, 1898-1983 Wallenstein, Virginia
Geographic Location	Los Angeles (United States)
Publisher - Digital	Ella Strong Denison Library; Claremont Colleges Digital Library
Notes	Alfred Wallenstein was a cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1919, Music Director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra from 1943-1956, and Music Director at the Hollywood Bowl from 1952-1956. In Chicago, he developed the first commercially sponsored classical concert series on radio. While at the LAPO, he nearly doubled the number of yearly concerts (inaugurating broadcasts over NBC and the Pacific network), created a "Symphonies for Youth" series, made numerous recordings, established a pension fund for his players, and frequently took the orchestra on the road, including a ten-week U.S. State Department trip to the Orient. During his initial season in Los Angeles, no fewer than sixteen works were given their Los Angeles premieres. By the time he left in 1956, at least forty-seven American composers (Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Paul Creston, David Diamond, Morton Gould, and Virgil Thomson among them) had received performances of major works, transforming the orchestra's repertoire and the concert experience in Los Angeles.
Language	eng
Source	Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection, Box 9, Folder 47
Format - Original	Sepia tone photograph; 5 x 8.5 inches
Collection	Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection of Travel and Early Los Angeles Music - http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15831coll2
Rights	For more information on copyright or permissions, please contact Ella Strong Denison Library at http://libraries.claremont.edu/denison.
Type	Image Text
Format - Digital	image/jp2
Object File Name	bbf00563.tif

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