Fine head-and-shoulders portrait of the noted American conductor. Signed in full

by Alexander Smallens

$85 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

8 x 10 , dated Aug. 3, 1938, Philadelphia, Pa. With minor annotations in pencil and ink and handstamp of The New York Times Studio to verso, along with another handstamp of Henry Y. Porter to upper right corner. Smallens, a noted Russian-born American conductor, studied at the New York Institute of Musical Art and, from 1909, at the Paris Conservatoire, returning to the USA as assistant conductor of the Boston Opera, 1911–14.

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