Description
Theodore Presser Co., 1926. Wraps, 64 pp.; 23 cm; staple bound; cover title; illustrated with black-and-white photographic portraits and reproductions, printed music for piano, voice and violin.
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Condition & notes
In Acceptable condition. Cream paper covers with color illustration after J. L. G. Ferris, "The Liberty Bell's First Note," on front and "Music Study Exalts Life" plaque on rear; mild to moderate shelf and edge wear, soiling and toning, creasing along edges, a few small nicks, chips and tears to edges, 1-inch tear to paper over bottom of spine. Covers pulling away from staples with some tearing along staples, but still attached; light rust staining at staples. Four interior leaves (eight pages) detached from staples and laid in; all pages present. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked apart from a small spot to margin of page 15. Souvenir published by The Etude Music Magazine for the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition in Philadelphia, 1926, and distributed by the Theodore Presser Co. at its exhibit in the Palace of Liberal Arts. Its core is what the publishers called the first comprehensive collection of portraits of American composers: several hundred photographic portraits, arranged alphabetically and most with birthplace and year of birth, of composers born in America or living there in 1926. Among them are a young George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Amy Beach, Carrie Jacobs Bond, Ernest Bloch, Charles Griffes, Howard Hanson, George M. Cohan and John Philip Sousa. A double-page "Etude's Remarkable Musical Hall of Fame" lists contributors from Rachmaninoff and Puccini to Thomas Edison. Short essays cover the music of Philadelphia, the history of The Etude (with a reproduction of the first issue, 1883) and the House of Presser. Printed music includes Sousa's "Power and Glory," Lieurance's "By the Waters of Minnetonka" and Borowski's "Adoration" for violin and piano. Final page reproduces Walter Dorwin Teague's title design for the Presser Collection.