THE NEW JERSEY ORCHESTRA, Rene Pollain, Conductor. Season 1929-1930 Third Concert. Soloist Efrem Zimbalist. Orange High School Auditorium. [ORIGINAL CONCERT PROGRAM SIGNED by EFREM ZIMBALIST & RENE POLLAIN].

ORIGINAL PROGRAM SIGNED BY THE VIOLINIST EFREM ZIMBALIST & THE CONDUCTOR RENE POLLAIN - Quarto, 11-1/8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide. The original 6-page program for the concert held on Thursday Evening, April 17th, 1930 at the Orange High School Auditorium. Folded vertically across the center and therefore with a heavy crease and with tiny tears to the top and bottom of the folds. The bottom edges of the pages are dampstained. Good. Signed in full by both the conductor Rene Pollain and the violinist Efrem Zimbalist on the front cover.The concert included performances of Beethoven's "Symphony in C Minor", Debussy's "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune", Mendelssohn's "Concerto in E Minor for Violin and Orchestra", and Rimsky-Korsakoff's "Introduction and Cortege des Noces from 'Le Coq d'Or'".The concert violinist and composer Efrem Zimbalist Sr. (1889-1985) was also conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music. Born in Russia, Zimbalist was first violin in his father's orchestra by the age of 9. He studied under Leopold Auer at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, winning a gold medal and Rubinstein Prize before graduating in 1907. Zimbalist debuted in Berlin in 1907 and then London before pertofming in the U.S. in 1911. In the 1912 concert marking Leopold Stokowski's first appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra, Zimbalist played the Glazunov Concerto. He began teaching at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music in 1921, becoming its director in 1941. His own compositions include the "American Rhapsody", a tone poem "Daphnis and Chloe", Fantasies on themes from Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Golden Cockerel" and Bizet's "Camen", a composition for viola and piano titled "Sarasateana" and an opera "Landara".Born in France Rene Pollain (1882-1940) directed the orchestra of the municipal theatre in Paris from 1904 to 1914. Pollain came to the U.S. in 1918, becoming assistant conductor for Walter Damrosch at the New York Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the New York Symphony Orchestra at the Chautauqua Festivals of 1919, 1920, and 1921, and the Worcester Festivals of 1922, 1923, & 1924. When the New York Symphony merged with the Philharmonic in 1928, Pollain became first Violist. He held that position until 1935. From 1929 until 1939 he was director of the New Jersey Orchestra.…