One Hundred Twenty-Ninth Anniversary Concert & Ball -- The Academy of Music [Program]

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Orchestra, 1986. Paperback. 204 pages: photographs (primarily color, a few black-and-white); 28 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. The Academy Concert and Ball (usually referred to simply as the Academy Ball) is a major event in the Philadelphia social scene, held annually to raise funds for the Academy of Music. This program from the 1986 Academy Concert and Ball includes the program from the all-Gerschwin concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti. The concert consisted of the piano concerto in F major featuring pianist Ivan Davis; selections from Porgy and Bess featuring Roberta Alexander and Simon Estes; and An American in Paris. Includes the menu for the ball, held at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel. Most of the program consists of portraits of board members, other prominent Philadelphia-area residents, and visiting cultural figures, including Anne d'Harnoncourt; Robert Montgomery Scott; Leonore Annenberg; Mayor W. Wilson Goode; F. Eugene Dixon, Jr.; Luciano Pavarotti; Craig Claiborne; Georges Perrier; G. Morris Dorrance, Jr.; Frank G. Binswanger, Sr.; David W. Strawbridge; Peter J. Parker; C. Everett Koop; Billy Crystal; Julius Erving; Jane G. Pepper; George Crumb; Edna Phillips; Marc-Andre Hamelin; Peter J. Liacouras; Marc Mostovoy; Michael Korn; Edward A. Montgomery, Jr.; and W. Thacher Longstreth. Also includes a double-page photograph of Curtis Institute of Music alumni who were members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In Very Good Condition: cover lightly rubbed; marginal marks in black next to the list of board of directors; otherwise, clean and tight. Very Good. Item #010606

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