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Conductor Alfred Wallenstein

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Order Number	00068789
Title	Conductor Alfred Wallenstein
Collection ID	Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession	Music-Personalities-Wallenstein, Alfred.
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	Portrait of Alfred Wallenstein (1898-1983), who was an American cellist and conductor. A descendant of Albrecht von Wallenstein, Alfred was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He joined the San Francisco Symphony as a cellist at the age of 17 and later played cello with both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He eventually became the principal cello of the New York Philharmonic under Toscanini in 1929. It was Toscanini who advised Wallenstein to become a conductor. He conducted the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and from 1943 to 1956 he was musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. After he retired, he taught at the Juilliard School in New York, where he died at age 84.
Subject	Wallenstein, Alfred. Conductors (Music)--California--Los Angeles. Cellists--California--Los Angeles. Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection