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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:: William A. Clark Jr. on the right, sitting next to composer Dane Rudhyar, who had just been awarded a $1,000 prize for a symphonic poem that he submitted to a contest. They look at his poem in a large binder, seated on a bench in the garden of Clark's property at 2205 West Adams Boulevard. A similar photo appears with the article "TALENT .. HAS .. LARGE .. REWARD: Modernist Wins in Music Contest," Los Angele Times, 02 Jun. 1922: II11. In 1926, William A. Clark Jr. gifted UCLA Southern Campus his library of rare books and transcripts.
Date:: June 1, 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Missouri University football team captain Arthur Bond, running with a football on the empty field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Date:: August 11, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Gathering of musicians, composers, and conductors who are members of the Hollywood Bowl campaign committee. Photo appears with the article, "Guiding Spirits of Open-Air Symphony Season: Bowl Drive Plans Laid Campaign Committees Named at First of Series of Breakfast for Music Leaders," Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1930: A1.
Date:: May 27, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

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