Genre: black-and-white photographs / Names: Santa Monica Civic Music Guild (Santa Monica, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Female pianist in a gown seated on a piano bench in front of a grand piano, probably for a Santa Monica Civic Music Guild performance.
Date:: [between 1948-1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Group portrait of performers back stage posed standing on a staircase stage set. The 4 women wear full-length floral period dresses with puffed sleeves and maids caps. Behind them are 5 men in costumes with white shirts, vests and long stocking caps.
Date:: [between 1948-1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is of members of the Santa Monica Music Guild. A woman sits at a piano. Another stands next to her before a microphone, which has a sign reading "KOWL". Both wear dresses with musical instruments and pearls.
Date:: [between 1949 and 1953]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: View of the composer Ferde Grofé on stage with an orchestra and chorus cConducting his work Atlantic Crossing, a tone poem for orchestra and chorus with male and female narrators, with the audience in the foreground. In the orchestra pit are three men seated at a table with recording equipment (right) and a man and woman with musical scores (left) who are probably the narrators.
Date:: 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Conductor on stage with an orchestra conducting, with the front row of the audience in the foreground. In the orchestra pit, three men operate recording equipment.
Date:: 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Pianist in concert attire seated at a piano with 3 men and 2 women in formal dress standing behind him, including opera singer Jean Kortlander (4th from left). They are at a gathering, perhaps in somebody's home.
Date:: [1951 or 1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is of a member of the Santa Monica Music Guild, possibly Raoul Gripenwaldt. He wears a suit and tie, and holds a baton in his right hand, looking down at it.
Date:: [between 1949 and 1953]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Composer Ferde Grofé (center) at a Santa Monica Civic Music Guild reception with men and women in formal attire beside a refreshment table covered with a table cloth and set with a silver coffee service, candelabra and flowers. The room has wood paneled walls and swag drapery.
Date:: 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Group portrait of guests at a Santa Monica Civic Music Guild reception at the home of Vivien Kurtz (258 18th St.). The little boy in a Ramsey Military School uniform is the son of Vivien Kurtz. Music critic Raoul Gripenwaldt (probably) is on the right.
Date:: [between 1948-1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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