Kurtz Efrem (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original publisher's white paper wrappers with staple binding. Color illustration on front cover shows a man and woman wearing masks and costumes. No date, circa 1940. 9 1/2" x 12 1/4." Unpaginated, all pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, a few in color, complete. Advertisements for various products and businesses included. Pages are clean and intact overall but have light age toning and small occasional marks and stains. Covers are very clean and intact except for creases in upper-right corner on front, light age toning, several small wrinkles, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is a promotional program for Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, a ballet company, for Season 1940-1941. The following are some of the contents: the company's repertoire or repertory with synopses (may be a partial list); brief biographical information about some of the dancers; concept art; black-and-white illustrations of production stills; and black-and-white photographic portrait illustrations of Leonide Massine, S. Hurok, Jean Yazvinsky, Franz Allers, Alexandra Danilova, Alicia Markova, Mia Slavenska, Igor Youskevitch, Andre Eglevsky, Frederic Franklin, Roland Guerard, Nathalie Krassovska, Lubov Rostova, George Zoritch, Marc Platoff, Lubov Roudenko, Katia Geleznova, Jeanette Lauret, Milada Mladova, Simon Semenoff, Nicolas Beriosoff, Michel Katcharoff, Casimir Kokitch, Chris Volkoff, Thomas Armour, Ian Gibson, Tania Grantzeva, Leila Crabtree, Anna Scarpova, Tatiana Chamie, Eleanora Marra, and Yolanda Lacca. Some of the advertised products and businesses: Elizabeth Arden, Casino Russe, The Book of Ballets, and the School of American Ballet. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (not to be confused with one of its predecessors, Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo) was founded in 1938 by Leonide Massine and Rene Blum. Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil had formerly led the Ballets Russes company but parted ways in 1934. Following this, de Basil and Blum went on to form their own companies, Original Ballet Russe and Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, respectively. When Massine joined in 1938, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo was renamed Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo remained in business until 1968.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original publisher's multicolored paper wrappers with staple binding. Color illustration (possibly by Christian Berard) on front cover shows a man leaning forward, with one hand raised in the air and one leg slightly kicked back, and a serpentine figure in background (may be concept art for Beethoven's Seventh Symphony). No date, circa 1938. 9" x 12." Unpaginated, all pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, a few in color, complete. Pages are clean and intact overall but have light age toning and occasional marks and stains. Covers are very clean and intact except for light age toning, several small wrinkles, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is a promotional program for Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, a ballet company, for Season 1938-1939. The following are some of the contents: the company's repertoire or repertory with synopses (may be a partial list) and black-and-white photographic portrait illustrations of Leonide Massine, Serge Lifar, Boris Kochno, Efrem Kurtz, S. Hurok, Alexandra Danilova, Tamara Toumanova, Alicia Markova, Mia Slavenska, Nina Theilade, Igor Youskevitch, Frederic Franklin, Nathalie Krassovska, Michel Panaieff, Eugenie Delarova, Anna Scarpova, Lubov Roudenko, Jeanette Lauret, Marc Platoff, Roland Guerard, Marcel Fenchel, George Zoritch, Milada Mladova, Marina Franca, Lubov Rostova, Tatiana Flotat, Christian Berard, Henri Matisse, and Pavel Tchelitcheff. Some of the advertised products and businesses: Lentheric, Guerlain, Lanvin, Helena Rubinstein, Saks Fifth Avenue, Elizabeth Arden, Chicago's Blackstone hotel, New York's Reuben's Restaurant, New York's Russian Tea Room Restaurant, and French Line cruises. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (not to be confused with one of its predecessors, Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo) was founded in 1938 by Leonide Massine and Rene Blum. Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil had formerly led the Ballets Russes company but parted ways in 1934. Following this, de Basil and Blum went on to form their own companies, Original Ballet Russe and Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, respectively. When Massine joined in 1938, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo was renamed Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo remained in business until 1968.…

Condition: Good. Hurok Attractions New York 1938 staple bound. wraps age toned and creased.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is an official program from the Ballet Russe for the 1938-1939 season. Drawing by Matisse on cover. Synapses of ballets and photos of dancers. Advertising for restaurants, etc. in New York City. Book.

Audio CD. Condition: New. 2010. 3 discs. Excellent condition. Still in shrinkwrap. CD38.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Signed in pencil by ten performers associated with Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on a few pages (see below). Original publisher's multicolored pictorial paper wrappers with staple binding. Color illustration on front cover shows concept art of a male performer standing on one leg in a graceful pose and a figure in the purple background that is half-human and half-serpent. No date, circa 1939. 9 1/2" x 12" x 1/4." Unpaginated, all pages, complete (except for possibly one page missing toward front, opposite page with portrait illustration of Boris Kochno. One page may have tipped-in printed text on paper ("Universal Art, Inc.") that may conceal original text beneath it. Pages are very clean and intact but have light age toning, occasional marks and smudges, small stains at page gutters, and slight wear to extremities. Covers are clean and intact overall but have wrinkling and general wear at edges and corners, light rubbing, and occasional small marks or stains (some are on spine). A Very Good copy. This is a program for the 1938-1939 season of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was one of the successors to Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. The latter was directed by Wassily de Basil with Rene Blum as its artistic director, but the two parted ways in 1936. This split resulted in Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo separating into two different ballet companies with one owned by de Basil and the other, by Blum. De Basil's successive company became known as the Original Ballet Russe. Blum's company was Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was active until 1968. For the 1938-1939 season of Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, S. Hurok was the impresario, Leonide Massine was the artistic director, and Efrem Kurtz was the musical director. This program has several features such as brief printed commentary about the current ballet season and the ballet industry in general, synopses of ballets, advertisements for a variety of businesses and products, black-and-white portrait illustrations of performers and leading figures in the industry, and color illustrations of ballet concept art. This copy notably features several autographs in pencil on a few pages in the program. On the title page are the signatures of "George Gaber, [sic] tympanist," "Samuel Koza, Trumpet," "Rosella Hightower," "Dorothy Etheridge," and "Lubov Rostova." Center spread with ballet concept art illustrations is signed in pencil by "Robert Irwin." Four performers has signed in pencil next to their black-and-white portrait illustrations: "Marc Platoff," "Roland Guerard," "Milada Mladova," and "Marina Franca." A black-and-white group photo illustration toward the back has a pencil inscription, but it is unclear if this is a signature from a Ballet Russe member.…

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. Broadside, 34 x 7" Works: Serenade, The New Yorker (George Gershwin), Gaite Parisienne, Poker Game, Spectre de la Rose, Nutcracker, Vienna-1814, Afternoon of a Faun, Capriccio Espangnol, Swan Lake, Bacchanale, Giselle, The Bluebird, Fantastic Toyshop, Coppelia, Petrouchka, Serenade, Scheherazade, Les Sylphides, Seventh Symphony. Creased, VG. …

Softcover. Condition: Very good+ condition. First printing. Small Folio. [56]pp. Original tan stiff wraps with Salvador Dali illustration and his facsimile signature and date on cover; protected by modern mylar. Cover with Dali motif and facsimile signature. Profusely illustrated with head shots of ballet dancers, incl. b/w photo portraits of Leonide Massine, S. Hurok, Tamara Toumanova, Nathalie Krassovska, many others. In addition the program is illustrated with numerous b/w full page performance scenes. Text in English. Light smudging along top half of back cover near spine. Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) was the founder of the Ballets Russes, a troupe that revolutionized modern design, fashion and theater and is widely regarded as the most influential ballet company of the 20th Century. It performed first in Paris in 1909 at the Palls Garnier with overwhelming success. Diaghilev himself was skeptical about ballet, at times referring to the dancers as "a herd of cattle." Diaghilev's success, however, was based on his idea to combine dance, music and visual arts, including set design and costumes, with Leon Bakst as the artistic director of the Ballet Russes. Key to the tremendous success of the Ballets Russes was the mix of traditional ballet with show elements, that way making it more appealing to the general public, and influential in contemporary art at the same time. After Diaghilev's death in 1929 his property was claimed by his creditors and in 1931, Wassily de Basil (a Russian émigré) and René Blum, ballet director at the Monte Carlo Opera, founded the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. Its first performance was given in 1932 at the Monte Carlo Opera.…

100 : 150 mm. Brustbild von vorn.