Description
Osherenko Publishing Company, Published 1967. Hardcover, 159 pp.; 24 cm; illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs by Otto Rothschild; color pictorial endpapers.
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In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Light blue cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine; mild shelf wear and edgewear; faint mark to lower front cover. Binding tight. Presentation inscription in red ink on front pastedown from the publishers: "With love from Margo and Joe Osherenko." Small nick to front pastedown near top edge. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. A history of Hollywood Bowl from the first Symphonies Under the Stars concert of July 11, 1922 into the 1960s, by the Bowl's press agent of thirty years, who covered the first rehearsal as a young reporter for the Los Angeles Express. Includes chapters on the conductors (with portrait pages of Monteux, Stokowski, Stravinsky, Beecham, Bernstein, Mehta and others), Artie Mason Carter and the founding years, the Easter Sunrise Service, Lily Pons's record crowd, the 1943 Sinatra controversy, the 1958 Ringling Brothers circus, the Beatles, and picnicking in the boxes. The appendix lists Bowl presidents, conductors, and dancers and dance groups. The publisher, Joseph R. Osherenko, founded California Apparel News in 1945; the book was printed at his own Fashion Press plant on South Main Street. Contents: Overture; Are Conductors People?; Discovery; Land of Make Believe; The Bard Comes to Hollywood; Daisy Dell; Singing Together; A Park Becomes a Bowl; Sagebrush to Symphony; Crusader; A "New Bowl"; House on the Hill; Year of the Fanfare; Sentimental Season; Fruitful Decade; Transition Downward; Darkest Hour; Who Runs the Bowl?; Is There a Wizard in the House?; Woes in the Exchequer; Bulldozers and Progress; Hecklers from the Sky; Getting to Know You; Women's Important Role; Strolling in Pepper Tree Lane; Teen Age Ceremonial Ritual; Faith and Worship; A Tiny Lily Blossoms in a Large Bowl; President's Daughter and Others; Springboard to Fame; "What Pageantry, What Shows, What Minstrelsy"; Jazz, Man; Dancing Bears and Elephants; Invitation to the Dance; The Music Makers; Golden Memories; Appendix (Facts and Non-Facts; Hollywood Bowl Presidents; Conductors; Dancers and Dance Groups; Photograph Credits).