Author:
Bruno Walter [born Bruno Schlesinger] (1876-1962), German conductor, pianist and composer, who fled the Nazis, first to France, and from 1939 to the United States [Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra]
Publication details:
On programme for his performance at the Usher Hall, 8 and 9 September 1947, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama, 24 August to 13 September 1947, printed by Geo. Stewart & Co., Ltd, Edinburgh.
See his entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica. The programme is 12mo, and consists of eight printed pages, stapled into covers printed in black on shiny paper, with a lion rampant on the front printed in red. The sprawling signature 'Bruno Walter' is written diagonally in the top-left quarter of the front cover. In good condition, lightly aged, but with the back cover damaged by removal from mount. Central vertical fold.
