Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Subject: Composers - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Funerals for famous composer and pianist George Gershwin are held simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York City. Gershwin died following surgery for a brain tumor on July 11, 1937. The musician was 38 years old.
Date:: July 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Funerals for famous composer and pianist George Gershwin are held simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York City. Gershwin died following surgery for a brain tumor on July 11, 1937. The musician was 38 years old.
Date:: July 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Song Chosen," Los Angeles Times, 02 Aug 1935: 6.
Date:: August 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Franz often used the pseudonym “Franz Vienna”, however his birth name is “Franz Steininger”.
Date:: July 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, 1/8/1926, "Children Greet Band King, Sousa Presents Trophies, Conducts Combined School Orchestra, Receives Gift and Plays Concert. … The gift given the bandmaster was a black ebony baton … presented during intermission by Miss Jennie Jones, supervisor of orchestral music in the Los Angeles public schools. …"
Date:: January 7, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Composer John Philip Sousa, shaking hands with Los Angeles schools superintendent Susan Dorsey, hat in left hand, standing with Jennie Jones, supervisor of orchestral music in the Los Angeles public schools, at Philharmonic Auditorium, with doors in background
Date:: January 7, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: With his shadow stretching along the wall behind him, Einar Nilson raises his arms in conducting a symphony that is not captured by the camera's lens.
Date:: July 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A copy photograph of Elinor with the space around her head whited out and a white space of paper at the base of her torso with her name, occupation, and the date written on it.
Date:: October 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the Los Angeles Times article, January 8, 1926, Children Greet Band King, Sousa Presents Trophies, Conducts Combined School Orchestra, Receives Gift and Plays Concert. … Mr. Sousa awarded the music-memory contest trophies to representatives of the Santa Barbara-avenue and the Soto-street schools during the matinee intermission, with the assistance of Miss Kathryn E. Stone, supervisor of music in the elementary schools …
Date:: January 7, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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