US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Composer-conductor Einar Nilson will arrange the full Shakespeare play with music composed by Mendelssohn with the number of performances depending on the place chosen for the performance. Einar Nilson shaking hands with woman. A man stands next to the woman on the other side. Photograph related to the article, "Spectacle Plans Laid," Los Angeles Times, 29 July 1934: 22. Text from newspaper caption: Einar Nilson, composer and conductor of the Max Rheinhardt productions, begins preparations for arrival of Rheinhardt, who plans presentation of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" in Southern California. Handwritten on negative: Einar Nilson...[illegible] Text from negative sleeve: NILSON, EINAR. COMPOSER, 1934.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6676 ark:/21198/zz002cwxtr
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Conductors (Music)--United States Composers Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) Nilson, Einar, 1881-1964
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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