The Steinway Saga. An American Dynasty
New York, Scribner, 1995. With the contemporary ownership signature of Lucien Parent. More
New York, Scribner, 1995. With the contemporary ownership signature of Lucien Parent. More
Dublin, Town House and Country House, 1991. More
The inscription reads in full: 'To dear Harry, in warm admiration of his true genius, thanking him for his glorious first performance of "The Lost Lady", & in happy memory of one of the few electric concerts of my life (June 2). His friend, Percy, June 1938'. The musical sentiment..... More
New York, G. Schirmer, Inc., 1944. The front cover of each volume is signed and dated (October 1944) by Percy Grainger, with a warm personal inscription in each case, respectively 'To dear Harry, with love from his friend Percy'; 'To dear Harry, in boundless admiration from Percy'; and 'To Harry..... More
Budapest, Konemann Music, 2003 (reprint)/ 1997. Piano reduction by György Orban. More
Melbourne, Novalit, 1975. More
London, Da Capo, 1978 (facsimile edition)/ 1913. The memoirs of this French singer and composer (1821-1910), whose musical family (Viardot, Garcia, Malibran etc) put her at the heart of European cultural life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Translated from the German manuscript and arranged by E.S. Buchheim..... More
Nashdom Abbey, Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society, 1934 (first edition). More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham [Printers, for the Author], 1901. More
London, Bibliographical Society, 1997. More
[Adelaide, Unidentified Photographer, circa 1971]. 'An Arrente woman from Alice Springs, Auriel Andrew began her musical career in the late 1960s, "cutting her teeth" on the local live music circuits in Adelaide and Port Lincoln. She appeared on various live TV musical broadcasts before she became a regular on Channel..... More
Hectorville, Book Agencies of Adelaide Pty Ltd, 1980. Harry 'The Breaker' Morant' was the only Bush-Balladist to be executed, here his finest poems are set to music and emerge as songs. More
London, Oxford University Press, 1975 [first thus]. One of the Oxford English Memoirs and Travels series. More
New York, W.W. Norton, 1969. Inscribed and signed by the editor. 'Includes complete study-size orchestral scores of eight major nineteenth-century symphonies'. More
Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, July 1974 (second edition) / May 1974. A biography of this South Australian folk singer, written by her mother. More
New York, Jonathan Leavitt, 1831 [first edition]. Reverend Joshua Leavitt (1794-1873) was an American Congregationalist minister and former lawyer who embarked on a lengthy 'career as social reformer, temperance spokesman, editor, abolitionist and religious proselytizer.... Leavitt published "The Christian Lyre" in 1830, the "first American tunebook to take the form..... More
There is also a short (five-word) note in pencil in the bottom left-hand portion of the page, written and initialled by Lehar. Oswald Kabasta (1896-1946), an Austrian conductor, is not without interest. 'In 1931 he became head of conducting at the Vienna Academy. He also served as musical director of..... More
London, Calder and Boyars, 1966. More
Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1976. More
The photograph is accompanied by a typed letter signed by Peter Dennison, Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne, to the Hon. Barry Jones, Parliament House, Canberra (at that time the Minister for Science). The letter, dated 24 August 1987, goes into some detail about the circumstances surrounding the..... More
London, Robson Books, 2006. More
One of the curiosities of Massenet is that he habitually signed with M., rather than his given name or initial. Massenet has come back into fashion and is more performed now than in the late twentieth century. Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones AC. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia in association with the University of Adelaide, 1966. Together with an offprint of one of the contributions, 'Puritan Attitudes to Music. A Study in History and Ideas' by Professor Heinz Kent. More
[Melbourne, Dark & Tinsdale's American Biograph & Novelty Co., 1910]. A handbill for a programme of popular entertainments, including motion pictures and music. The inner pages reprint press notices for 'Little Sylvia', and the last page is a 'Mammoth Programme' including the King's Funeral (Edward VII had died on 6..... More