The Society for the Second Performance of American Music. Two Concerts at the New School, 1954

$90.00

Four-page concert brochure, 5.5 × 8.5 inches, pictorial self-wrappers, published by The Society in 1954. Cover by Jacob Rosenblum, pairing lowercase typography with an abstract black emblem. Programs for concerts on February 27 and March 20, 1954, at the New School, under musical director Robert Mandell. Devoted to giving contemporary American compositions further hearings after their premieres, the society records earlier performances alongside works by William Flanagan, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Raymond Wilding-White, Elliot Greenberg, and others. Rear advertisements for Joseph Patelson’s Music House and Broude Brothers, the latter announcing Jan Meyerowitz’s cantata with text by Langston Hughes, The Glory Around His Head. Light toning and soiling, minor edge wear and creasing; very good. An uncommon document of efforts to secure a continuing audience for new American music. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.

Four-page concert brochure, 5.5 × 8.5 inches, pictorial self-wrappers, published by The Society in 1954. Cover by Jacob Rosenblum, pairing lowercase typography with an abstract black emblem. Programs for concerts on February 27 and March 20, 1954, at the New School, under musical director Robert Mandell. Devoted to giving contemporary American compositions further hearings after their premieres, the society records earlier performances alongside works by William Flanagan, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Raymond Wilding-White, Elliot Greenberg, and others. Rear advertisements for Joseph Patelson’s Music House and Broude Brothers, the latter announcing Jan Meyerowitz’s cantata with text by Langston Hughes, The Glory Around His Head. Light toning and soiling, minor edge wear and creasing; very good. An uncommon document of efforts to secure a continuing audience for new American music. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.