Victor Babin (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Very Good +. 2 copies for 2 pianists in folder; a very nice copy. Book.

sheet_music. Condition: Good. Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Softcover. Condition: VG to VG-. Some rubbing & edgewear; light creases; small mark on top edge of cover; a little duststaining; blank sticker placed on cover; otherwise overall clean & tight. 44 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback piano score for two pianos (two scores)- Russian Dance only, copyright 1922; loose in the publisher's original printed paper wraps. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handing and storage - wraps slightly tanned and rubbed to edges with ownership signature to front upper rh corner. Internally clean. Bindings tight and appear little read; no annotations or inscriptions; text and music bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.…

4°. OU. 20 S. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 300.

[12] pp.; 27.8 x 21.4 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Zine like catalogue for the UNbearables Arts Festival held across multiple venues in New York City, April 1 - April 30, 2001. Venues included ABC No Rio, Fusion, Bullet Space, A Gathering of the Tribes, Fire Patrol No. 5, Spectra Digital Arts Gallery, Doom, and others. Curated by Les Klein, Debra Smith, Luc Lerouge, Rod Costa, Jean Voguet. Artists included Matthew Courtney, Bruce Weber, Steven Englander, Matt Heyner, Blaise Siwula, Sean Meehan, John Farris, Andrew Castrucci, Miguel Algarin, Tracey Morris, Bob Holman, Pedro Pietri, David Henderson, Butch Morris, Julio Gonzalez, Steve Cannon, The Pan Group, Annie Coridon, Bernard Francois, Guillaume Gouilly-Frossard, ALICE, Hernani Cor, Ingrid Ar, Jean-Pierre Ducamin, Jim Feast, Ron Kolm, Quintin Gonzales, Holger Maass, Kevin Mutch, Togo Love, Victor Acevedo, Ron English, Michelle Jacobson, Paul Gregoire, Johanne Babin, Jo Rouyn, J. Fiset Japon, Demilouvre, Tuli Kupferberg, and others. Very Good. Light rubbing of covers and bumping at spine, otherwise clean and unmarked.…

Condition: Very good. - Two-bar musical quotation and inscription penned in blue ink in Victor Babin's hand on a gilt-edged, cream-colored page, 10-3/4 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide, from the guest book of Grace Bristed and C. D. Jackson at the Dakota. Signed "Vitya Vronsky" and "Victor Babin" and dated "Feb. 5th, 1956". There is a stain to the bottom edge of the page. Very good. Below the two bars of music, Babin has written: "It's lovely here (Rachmaninoff) / It's lovely here in The Dakota", followed by the signatures of both Babin and Vronsky and the date. Vronsky & Babin were introduced to American audiences through their recordings of Rachmaninoff, who became their friend and mentor.Vitya Vronsky [1909-1992] met her future husband Victor Babin [1908-1972] in 1933 while they were both studying with Arthur Schnabel. Soon after they formed their duo piano team, once described by Newsweek magazine as "the most brilliant two-piano team of our generation". Their recordings were issued by RCA Victor, Columbia, Decca and EMI and they performed over 1,200 concerts in North America. In 1961, Babin became Director of the Cleveland Institute of Music where both he and Vronsky served on the institute's faculty.Charles Douglas Jackson [known as "C.D."] and his wife Grace Bristed Jackson hosted Vronsky & Babin at their apartment in the Dakota. Jackson worked on and off at Time magazine in an administrative capacity for many years and was made vice president of Time, Inc in 1940. He was periodically sent on various diplomatic missions by Eisenhower. He also found time to serve on the boards of several organizations, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Free Europe Committee and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. …

Quer-8vo. 1 p. Signature on a small album page.Victor Babin (19081972) was born in Moscow, Russia. He and his wife Vitya Vronsky performed as Vronsky & Babin, and were regarded by many as one of the foremost piano duos of the twentieth century.Vronsky & Babin were introduced to American audiences through their recordings of the piano music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, who became their friend and mentor. Despite a break from performance during World War II, during which Babin served in the armed forces and Vronsky worked with war casualties in hospitals, the duo still managed to perform over 1,200 concerts in North America alone. In 1961, Babin became Director of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where both he and Vronsky served on the Institute's faculty.Babin also composed a Concerto for Two Pianos, which is in the repertoire of the Contiguglia brothers. His other works included a Capriccio for orchestra, a Konzertstück for violin and orchestra, a string quartet, a SonataFantasia for cello and piano, and the solo piano works Fantasia, Aria and Capriccio and Deux Mouvements dansantes. For two pianos, he wrote Six Studies, Three Fantasies on Old Themes, and Three March Rhythms.…

Kleines Albumblatt mit eigenhändigem Datum, beiden Dec. 5. 195. (59, Havanna), Unterschriften in Tinte signiert - mit Repro-Portraitfoto unter matthellblaues Passepartout gerahmt, 1 S. 4°.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ("Victor Babin") boldly penned in blue fountain pen ink on vintage tan album leaf. 3 7/8" x 5 1/8"; very good. ca. 1940. Boldly signed: "Victor Babin." Provenance: from the estate of Joseph Huntley.